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We had just the best time last night in Edinburgh - what a lovely lovely audience! Anyone got any photos?! And delighted with the response to our new single, Madeleine Rose! Thanks to our generous band camp followers! If you missed it, here's the link.

Madeleine Rose, by LYRE track by LYRE

NEW SINGLE! 🥳
https://lyresounds.bandcamp.com/track/madeleine-rose

We are so proud to release this track today in honour of Madeleine Rose, on her birthday ❤️

Madeleine Rose Hay was born of Scottish-French (‘auld alliance’) parentage, though in the city of York, so she was also a ‘Yorkshire lass’.

A family friend, watching months-old Madeleine's gaze at her surroundings, said 'She's been here before.' I thought it was a strange but rather lovely thing to say. Many years later, I came across the expression once again, apparently having been used that way in 1947, by a midwife, about the baby who would become a man known as David Bowie.

A year after her birth, invisible difficulties that Maddie was born with took hold. Her ability to speak and walk stalled, then disappeared, never to return.

Madeleine was beautiful and mysterious with the most enchanting eyes that attracted people to her, often complete strangers. And Maddie did see the world - Scotland, France, England, Ireland, United States, Spain, Tunisia, Greece and Cyprus. She absolutely loved to fly.

Maddie’s days often brought hidden battles that exhausted her, but she was a warrior - unbelievably strong and brave and determined, meeting every new day as if she had already won a fight - ready and excited to be alive.

Her amazing strength came visibly from three things:

Sleep... nobody ever looked as serene as Madeleine did while sleeping and dreaming.

Nature... the wind and the sea and creatures and birds. In her dreams, I am sure Maddie ran down mountains and flew the skies.

Music... from a very early age, Madeleine adored music with an ecstatic joy that was impossible for her to hide, when music she loved filled the air: orchestral, instrumental, opera, electric, folk, rock, and songs of every voice; choral, duet, solo.

A musical piece called Madeleine Rose? I imagine it to be about day and night; waking and sleeping. Telling us of a mysterious young warrior girl, tired by days that

Madeleine Rose, by LYRE track by LYRE

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So happy to be a part of the upcoming show, Moving Cloud feat. TRIP and Scottish Dance Theatre at Celtic Connections next week and to get a mention in this 'Top Picks' of the festival by the organisers of the festival.
Enjoy the festival!

Celtic Connections 2023 staff top picks The team behind the 30th edition of Celtic Connections tell us what artists they're excited to see at the festival.

We're very excited to be gearing up for our debut at The Scots Fiddle Festival in November! The festival is back and the line-up looks just fab - can't wait so see you all on the Sunday 🎻😍

Delighted to feature as The BIT Collective artist of the week 🥰

Flashback to our first live gig, at Celtic Connections back in February - here's Gin and Strathspey - cheers!

Mixed and put together by Stereo Pigeon
Remember to select HD/1080p 👌
https://youtu.be/m5OKwsJ4gGQ

LYRE LYRE Live at Celtic Connections 2022 - Gin and Strathspey This was LYRE LYRE's first ever live concert, back in February 2022 at the incomparable Celtic Connections music festival in Glasgow, Scotland. LYRE LYRE are...

We’re so excited to play at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park for Dandelion Harvest Festival on Sat 18th June! It’s a free, walk up weekend of music and all things and the cool news is, you can take your dog! 🐕 🥕🥕❤️

Lovely review/feature from Folk Radio UK 🎉❤️😊

Lyre Lyre - Gin and Strathspey (Tune of the Day) Taken from their debut album Gin and Strathspey, our Tune of the Day comes from Lyre Lyre featuring Patsy Reid, Marit Fält and Alice Allen.

NEWS!!! We have a last minute gig at the wonderful Edinburgh Tradfest next week! We're piggie-backing our Alice Allen and Patsy Reid's Strathspey Queens album launch and can't wait to bring our still-shiny new album, Gin and Strathspey to an Edinburgh audience 💿🥳

You can buy tickets here...
https://edinburghtradfest.com/schedule/2022/5/5/patsy-reid-amp-alice-allen

Edinburgh Tradfest Celebrating the strathspey king

Another milestone! 🐴
Our new album 'Gin and Strathspey' is now available to stream on Spotify and all the other digital platforms!
It's also Bandcamp Friday, so if you like what you hear, please consider supporting us over there, where physical 💿 are available (with beautiful artwork and scintilating track info 🤓)
This is not an April fools, it's all true! 🤣
https://open.spotify.com/album/15Xb9D9zLk4dtRgWe5eXtA?si=cRa8V2PKSH6sTgQkG6sW_g

Gin and Strathspey LYRE LYRE · Album · 2022 · 12 songs.

Good grief we were played on BBC Radio 2 on Wednesday night! Thanks so much to Ricky Ross for the mention on The Folk Show and play of the very special Apples for Fred 🍏🐴, which was written by the wonderful Karen Tweed 🤩!
You can listen in here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014pz9
- it was a great show but if you want to skip, we're on at 9 mins in! 🥳❤️🎻🐴

The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe - Ricky Ross sits in - BBC Sounds The best in folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

Today is the day!

Gin and Strathspey is OUT NOW on bandcamp! 🎶

It’s bandcamp Friday meaning no fees 🎉

Our debut live gig is TONIGHT at Celtic Connections! 💃

Gin and Strathspey, by LYRE LYRE 12 track album

If you can't wait until next week for our album release, you can hear both Alice and Patsy playing with the ridiculously talented Seonaid Aitken Music tomorrow (Saturday!).

Highly recommended 😊

https://www.celticconnections.com/event/1/matt-carmichael-with-seonaid-aitken-chasing-sakura

We don't like to tease so announcing and launching Pre-orders RIGHT NOW, all at the same time! You can hear and download a track RIGHT NOW, and pre-order our debut album over on Bandcamp, which will be released not right now, but next week on Friday 4th February, which is incidentally the same date as our first live gig at no other than Celtic Connections. It's all very exciting 🥳🎻

Thanks to the amazing team who helped along the way : Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios, Stereo Pigeon, Nick Cooke, Neal Hemingway!

Here's the link for pre-orders...
https://lyrelyre.bandcamp.com/album/gin-and-strathspey

Here's a link for tickets to our show with Lena Jonsson ❤️
https://celticconnections.com/event/1/lena-jonsson-trio-with-lyre-lyre

Gin and Strathspey, by LYRE LYRE 12 track album

Well we sent our mixes off to be mastered last night!!! 🙈 💿 🔥

So excited to share our debut album, recorded by the brilliant Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios and mixed by Stereo Pigeon. Still planning to launch it at Celtic Connections on Friday 4th February 🥳🎻🤞so keep everything crossed any announcements/updates tomorrow will allow the festival to put on some gigs this year! We appreciate everything they're doing to keep everybodies festival dreams alive🤞❤️🤞

We are so excited to play our first ever gig at Celtic Connections on Friday 4th February 2022. It's a night of firsts and we'll also be launching our debut album - more about that soon 🎻

Chuffed too to be sharing the bill with the fabulous Lena Jonsson 🤩

Thanks so much for all the lovely feedback after the gig on Wednesday! We're so chuffed 😊

Marit is about to go on Celtic Music Radio (11.05am) to chat about the band and a they're going to play a couple of tracks! 🎧
https://celticmusicradio.net/category/cc2021/

Celtic Connections 2021 CRM at Celtic Connections - Thursday 21st Jan 2021 Fiona McNeill is your host tomorrow morning (Thursday 21st January) from 10am – 12.30pm with Celtic Connections Live here on Celtic Music Radio. Ross Ainslie will be discussing his new album; Garry Innes from Mànran will be reminiscing about fest...

Tonight is the night we officially launch our new trio at Celtic Connections! So excited to share the bill with beautiful musicians Karen Matheson Blue Rose Code and Rory Butler at 7.30pm.

To watch the show, you can either buy a whole festival pass for just £40 and watch all concerts (19 days worth) any time up to a week after broadcast, or you can buy individual tickets for pennies at https://celticconnections.vhx.tv/products
Thanks so much to all our followers so far for being part of our beginnings 🙏🎻

Celtic Connections The festival pass gives you access to all paid content taking place between 15th January and 2nd February 2021. All content will be available for one week after the on-air date. Excludes workshops and BBC broadcasts.

LYRE LYRE updated their website address.

We're so excited to launch our new band and very lucky to play our first ever gig, at Celtic Connections 2021. As you know, things are a little different this year and you can watch the entire festival from the comfort of your own home for just £40. What a bargain, we can't wait!!!

We are so honoured to be sharing the bill with the amazing Blue Rose Code, Karen Matheson and Rory Butler on Wednesday 20th January, all kicking off at 7.30pm on Vimeo Online.

LYRE 🎻 x (Alice, Patsy and Marit )

p.s buy your whole festival pass or individual concert tickets here
https://celticconnections.vhx.tv/products