Search - Sara Cleveland :: Ballads & Songs Of The Upper Hudson Valley

Sara's family came over from Ireland, stopping in Scotland for a few years before completing their journey. Her mother had many songs, every one of which Sara very deliberately wrote down in her old chapbook and learned by heart. She added songs from her father, and from a favorite uncle, to her astonishing repertoire of over four hundred traditional numbers. Included on this recording are classic Child ballads, some very rare, and lovely lyric songs sung to ancient Irish airs. In fact, Sara was certainly one of the most important traditional ballad singers ever discovered in this country, ranking right up there with New Hampshire's Lena Bourne Fish and Maine's Carrie Grover. An essential recording for the ballad enthusiast.