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“B
oston’s expecting six inches of snow,” says Cara determination to succeed. It’s this determination that finds
Dillon as she attempts to juggle two toddlers who her touring the US East Coast in winter and preparing to
squeal when she turns down the volume on their cartoons. launch her latest album Hill Of Thieves on Charcoal Records,
Life on the road for musicians with families is never easy and a label she and Lakeman have set up. Hill Of Thieves is
for Dillon and her life and music partner Sam Lakeman it
Dillon’s fourth solo album – the previous three were released
means taking the kids along.
on the über-fashionable Rough Trade label – and in deciding
“When we’re touring England we will often leave them with
to go it alone she has returned to her Irish roots and created
Sam’s parents and in Ireland with my family but longer
an album of majestic grace and beauty.
distances we want them with us,” says Dillon. “They’ve
Hill Of Thieves contains one Dillon-Lakeman original and
adapted well so far – they know the dressing room, are used
ten traditional songs they have written the arrangements for.
to hotels and tour buses and like all the attention. At the
Dillon has surrounded herself with an ensemble of gifted
moment they seem to want to hit everything so we’ve just
English and Irish folk musicians – acoustic guitar, flute,
bought them some shakers and tambourines although I’m
uilleann pipes, piano, mandola, double bass, tin whistle,
scared one of them will grow up wanting to be a drummer!”
fiddle, bodhran, bouzouki are the instruments deployed
Cara Dillon’s rise to international stardom has come – and producer Lakeman keeps things simple: on some
through hard work, excellent music making and a steely tracks there’s just voice and piano, on others voice, fiddle
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