Josephine Marsh

Josephine Marsh offers quickly emerged among the world’s best accordion players. A grasp from the East Clare, Ireland, design, Marsh was voted “greatest rookie of the entire year” and was a runner-up in the “greatest woman traditional performer” competition carried out by Irish Music Publication in 1997. The same 12 months, Marsh’s music reached a worldwide target audience when her initial tune, “The Shepherd,” was contained in a Country wide Geographic documentary on Ireland’s great famine. English music publication Folk Roots explained her playing as “loose, free of charge, spiritual, basic, light, joyous, moving.” Marsh continues to be attracting interest with her virtuosic playing since 1990 when she released an recording, To Meet a pal, with bouzouki participant Cyril O’Donoghue. In the beginning released on her behalf personal label, the recording was re-issued as Josephine Marsh around the Tara record label in past due 1995. The recording remained in the very best Five from the Warm Press folk/origins charts from Dec 1995 until May 1996. Marsh’s squeezebox playing continues to be presented on albums by Kate Purcell (A Desire Unfolds), Tim Flannery (Tim Flannery’s Recording), Gerry Lynch (The Dimming of your day), and Sean Tyrell (The Orchard). Given birth to in London to Irish parents, Marsh came back to the house of her ancestral origins in 1971. After living for a lot more than 2 decades in Broadford, a little town of East Clare, she after that relocated to Ennis.