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Review: The Welcome Companion by Dick Hensold and Patsy OBrien

Review The Welcome Companion – by Dick Hensold and Patsy O’Brien This is the first recording by this duo, with Dick playing Northumbrian Pipes, reel pipes, and whistles and Patsy on guitar and vocals. Their website says ’the songs are from Britain and Ireland, and the tunes from Cape Breton Island, Scotland. Ireland and Northumberland, with a good measure of original music in the traditional style’. Half of the tracks are songs, with instrumental tracks making up the rest....

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