05/09/2026
Seems like ages ago now, with a setting sun, birds singing and soft melodies drifting through the evening cool as Amie played "She Moved Through the Faire"
This little tune is a traditional Irish folk song about a young man seeing his lover moving away from him through the faire after telling him that her family will approve and it will not be long now till their wedding day. Obviously, as these things go, she returns to him as a ghost and whispers to him again, it will not be long now, till our wedding day, indicating a reunion in the afterlife.
This was one of my dad's favourite tunes that he played on the fiddle, to me at the time, it seemed a bit slow and I was more into the rocking Irish jigs, but as life goes on and the birds are singing, the sun is shining and this is being played by the talented Harpist Amie on her beautiful harp, you can't but appreciate why it was one of my dads favourite tunes.
To find out more about Amie, have a look at her FB page "Amie Bain Folk Harp and Song"