Gracehill Fair


Gracehill Fair is the 2010 album release by The Irish Rovers, Rover Records. The album and title track are named after an annual fair in the County Antrim of Northern Ireland. It was recorded in Canada and Ireland, and mixed in Nanaimo, British Columbia, with cover and liner notes artwork by Celtic artist Hamish Burgess. The album includes new original rollicking drinking songs for which the band is best known, as well as a selection of original ballads.
The album was nominated Album of the Year, and title track nominated Song of the Year by the 2011 Vancouver Island Music Awards in Canada. The title track won the 2011 VIMA Song of the Year award.

Track listing

  1. "Ireland Boys Hurrah" – 2:20
  2. "Home to Bantry Bay" – 3:11
  3. "The Dublin Pub Crawl" – 4:28
  4. "The Boys of Killybegs" – 3:10
  5. "Pretty Susan The Pride of Molyclare" – 4:22
  6. "Jigs-Trotting to Larne/The Knotted Chord/The Wise Maid" – 4:05
  7. "The Lass with the Bonny Brown Hair" – 4:50
  8. "The Girls of Derry" – 3:05
  9. "Let Him Go Let Him Tarry" – 2:50
  10. "I'll Return" – 5:02
  11. "Reels-Egan's Favorite/The Dawn" – 4:00
  12. "Drink, Sing and be Jolly" – 3:48
  13. "Gracehill Fair" – 3:42
  14. "And the Sun it Still Rises" – 5:55

Personnel

;The Irish Rovers
;Additional musicians