Lankum: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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This performance was recorded on March 6, 2020. We will continue releasing Tiny Desk videos of shows that had already been taped. In light of current events, NPR is postponing new live tapings of Tiny Desk Concerts. In the meantime, check out Tiny Desk (home) concerts! They’re recorded by the artists in their home. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

May 18, 2020 | Bob Boilen -- Lankum's journey from Ireland to the Tiny Desk was a wild and bumpy adventure. First, visa problems forced them to cancel their late February date. A week later, much of the world is more worried about COVID-19, though daily patterns here hadn't changed. They arrived in New York, hopped in their van to Washington, D.C., only to have that break down. Finally, after all that, some good news: While in their new van heading to the Tiny Desk, the Dublin quartet received news that its brilliant album The Livelong Day had won Ireland's Choice Music Prize Album of the Year!

All of this was a build-up to a Tiny Desk concert I'll never forget. I, too, am a massive fan of the drones from the uilleann pipes, harmonium, concertina and the stunning voice of Radie Peat. The Livelong Day to my ears has as much in common with Irish tradition as it does to electronic music, though everything they do is acoustic. But the power and heft of what brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada, and Radie Peat convey through their reeds, strings, and vocals are deeply stirring emotionally and have stuck with me all these months since this concert's recording.

A week later I saw Lankum in concert. It was the last one I attended in a real venue and the world was rapidly changing. Their journey home, I trust, was frightening. The idea of getting on a plane was so very different from just a few weeks before. I know it was tough, but I'm ever so grateful for this life experience and grateful to be able to share it here.

SET LIST
"The Wild Rover"
"The Young People"
"Bear Creek"

MUSICIANS
Radie Peat: vocals, harmonium, baritone Irish concertina; Ian Lynch: vocals, uilleann pipes, baritone English concertina; Daragh Lynch: vocals, guitar; Cormac MacDiarmada: vocals, fiddle, viola

CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith, Maia Stern; Creative director: Bob Boilen; Audio engineers: Josh Rogosin, Patrick Boyd; Videographers: Maia Stern, Bronson Arcuri, Melany Rochester, Jack Corbett; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Production Assistant: Shanti Hands; Executive producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Bob Boilen/NPR

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Lankum are now getting the recognition they deserve. Such a fabulous group.

heidinewman

Putting ads in this video is a hate crime.

alex

Lad's wearing a Kneecap t shirt you really love to see it. Ireland are on the map lads.

konorsmind

My heart sings listening to this I'm a Derry man and I hear generations beneath this sound.

shaunmcintyre

It is written in sand with the softest of feathers, it is not writ in stone like the walls of the chapel, and soon it is gone, like the soft winters at home. Makes me think of the relatives and friends that I've lost over the years, and how many of them were gone before their time. There's little left of their lives now. Just memories of moments in those who outlived them.

YetMoreCupsOfTea

I did the sound for them a couple of years ago in a small venue in Leeds. They were a delight to work with and the evening was one of the best.

martifingers

Lankum manages to do Irish folk music that sounds both faithful to tradition and yet hauntingly contemporary.

derickvarn

Delighted to finally see this up on YouTube. By far one of the most exciting Irish groups of any genre in a long time. Fair play to Boilen for being such a great advocate of contemporary Irish folk/trad. The Mary Wallopers next wha?

MickCrosse

I accidentally clicked on this video with the intent of exiting right away, but they had me intrigued with this gorgeous old folk sound. What a band. Need to check em out.

vikingbread

Radie brings it straight from the core of the planet boy

tadghmurphy

Guy on the fiddle, cranking away soft & easy, with the sound of a warm summer evening

FlatlandMando

This is so beautiful it’s actually making me cry. I’ve never heard of them before but now I’m desperate to see them live.

lauralee

Freshest take on Irish traditional music since Planxty, to my ears. Coincidentally, I grew up listening to music on a stereo purchased at Peats, Radie’s family business. I missed the February gig in Boston because of your visa problems, this helps!

mcguigan

absolutely fantastic . love this band. was great to see and hear you live last night supporting massive attack in bristol. what a night. keep it up Lankum. hope to see and hear you play live again very soon . love and peace from Bristol Blue (Prayers for Rain)

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