Freelance Nun crosses its eclectic proclivities with Chivalrous Crickets’ Celtic & folk influences to devise a compilation of lurid musical pastimes

Blood, Booze & Betrayal

release date: November 10, 2024

our debut album features some of the more macabre stories of the English-speaking Atlantic from medieval times to the present, with murder ballads rubbing up against drinking songs, and medieval + folk tunes finding their way into a newly composed adventure from the point of view of a holy relic. 

Credits

  • Tracy Cowart

    composer, voice, harps, percussion

  • Fiona Gillespie

    composer, voice, Irish flute & whistle

  • Caitlin Hedge

    voice, baroque violin

  • Paul Holmes Morton

    banjo, baroque guitar, colascione, harmonica

  • Loren Ludwig

    viola da gamba

  • Ben Matus

    voice, recorders, dulcian, bagpipes

  • Sian Ricketts

    voice, douçaines, recorders

  • Spiff Wiegand

    accordion, banjo, guitar, jaw harp, mandolin percussion


Produced by Ellie Sutherland, Charles Mueller, Tracy Cowart & Sian Ricketts
Engineered by Charles Mueller
Mastered by Mike Tierney
Recorded at the Carriage House Studios, Stamford, Connecticut & Tiny Panther Recording, Mount Vernon NY, 2020-2023
Published by BMI
Illustration by Randolph Caldecott
Cover art and design by Tracy Cowart.
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