Ger Wolfe
Ger Wolfe is a Cork based singer-songwriter and poet who weaves beautiful melody around his word and rhyme. Over the last twenty years, he has toured extensively in Ireland and the UK, solo, and with his band ‘The New Skylarks’. He specialises in crafting songs that focus on the beauty and the sadness of life, in almost equal measure, yet always tipping the balance towards an overpowering sense of Hope and Joy. He first heard Bert at the famous Drogheda Folk Club run by the Faulkner brothers who brought famous artists, which previously Ger had only heard on LP’s and cassettes borrowed from the County Library. The fingerpicking bug got to Ger straight away as a young kid.
I See the New Moon
Ger says: “I think this song I wrote in January 2016, is a good one for the Bert Jansch project because it has that little tune repeated in between the lines – a thing I heard him doing (maybe it’s a natural ‘filler’ with songs that are built around a simple run of chords or a drone). Lyrically it must speak for itself. Though I wouldn’t interfere with someone else’s reading of a song, I put this one in my own box of songs marked ‘Hope’. I like that walking rhythm, even veering towards a march, that seems a fairly traditional thing.
“Myself and Nóra had a great day out driving around West Cork. I am pictured with the Yamaha at Ballinacarriga castle, a 14th century tower house owned by the O’ Herlihy clan, also by a mill race that runs nearby and then by the sea at The Long Strand not far from Clonaklity .There is also a picture of my fiend Abhlaíomh Mac Sweeney who made the video. By the way, the guitar is really beautiful, I see what you mean about the electric tone, the sustain is brilliant on it, very nice, and really suits the open tunings – I could ‘waste’ away hours on it quite happily! He included some pictures in the video – I hope that suits.”
Ger has released eight full albums of his own songs, the latest ‘Ger Wolfe and The New Skylark’s Melody Bright & The Favourite Sparrow’ – a compilation of work from some of the previous CD’s and a new song in his latest single ‘Love is in the Lost and Found’. As popular as ever on National radio, Ger’s song ‘The Curra Road’ has found its way into the hearts of many singers and listeners alike.