Fat Dogs and Welsh Estates: Series Prequel

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Whether singing in Norwegian, French or his native English, his style, honed over 40 years of singing traditional material, is honest and direct. But life isn’t all fun; there’s a lot of hard work involved in running a domaine and much animal husbandry. Before the birth of Fat Dog, they owned the influential and groundbreaking Picture Canning Company, which cemented their names within the broadcasting industry. Surviving near-death experiences, they drove thousands of kilometres visiting French estates steeped in both history and eccentric owners.

This has all the right ingredients for me: memoir, moving to a new life abroad, animals, mishaps, hurdles, renovations, French country life, growing their own etc. Join the pair as they hunt down rampant mushroomers, raise countless critters and build witches with knobbly knees in their eccentric corner of rural France. If you have a dig around you’ll find information about my books and the places we visited during our domaine-hunting adventures. Deep in the countryside, her childhood was spent either on horseback, helping the gamekeepers raise pheasants, or out sailing.Three are accomplished jazz musicians with an ear both for the local and the cosmopolitan, the traditional and the experimental. The rhythms of Scandinavian dance are well represented here, while influences from Macedonia to Morris dance turn up without seeming out of place. During this time they had the opportunity to create studios for prime time television shows, broadcasted both nationally and internationally.

In a saturated market place where digital content is a must, professionalism and quality stand out more than ever. Having no percussionist, the rhythm section is provided by the buzz of the hurdy-gurdy, the chug of the concertina and, on occasion, the thrash of a cittern. Confidentiality Notice: The information contained on this page may be confidential and legally privileged. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

FatDog's repertoire always has at least one foot in folk music, either taking a traditional song or tune as their point of departure or composing new ones in the folk idiom. FatDog's instrument line-up usually raises a few eyebrows: concertina, trumpet, cittern, clarinet, hurdy-gurdy, saxophone and double bass. Add the predictable tussles with machinery, fencing, invasive critters, weather, mud, escaping poultry and of course, Jack (grumpy softie), and you can see why I read it in one sitting. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Richard learned this song from the great singer and flute-player Cathal McConnell from Fermanagh on one of his many trips to Norway.