The Na-Mara Podcast

In this episode of NAMARAMUSICAST we talk about one of our songs translated from the original French, Compagnons de la Marjolaine. It was recorded on our 2019 album, Sisters & Brothers. We discuss our abiding love of French and Breton folk music, how we find and select songs from that musical tradition, how we go about the translation process, and how UK audiences have reacted to the French and Quebecois material we put before them.

In this episode of NAMARAMUSICAST we are going to talk about our best-known and most requested song, ‘Only For Three Months’, recorded on our 2010 album, The Bite. We will show how the song links to Rob’s family history, its modern resonances, where we got the tune from, how and why we arranged the song the way we did, discuss audience reactions to the song and how it appeared on a BBC Radio 4 programme.

In this episode of NAMARAMUSICAST we talk through the background to our song ‘Nellie Torrence and Jeannie Waldie’, from our 2010 album, ‘The Bite’. We also outline the story behind the song, why we think it makes such a good subject, how we structured and recorded the song, and how audiences have engaged and reacted to it, with a few funny stories thrown in for good measure.