From Newfoundland "Rum Ragged's" - Gone Jiggin' ...

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Following their sold-out UK tour in May 2024, and festival appearances at the Cambridge Folk Festival in summer 2024, Rum Ragged will once again bring their distinct blend of Newfoundland traditional music to the UK
Rum Ragged has always put a contemporary spin on its salt-covered folk music, but Gone Jiggin' is a new approach, reaching back through time for a reverent celebration of heritage. Leaning proud and hard into their Newfoundland roots, the quartet led by Mark Manning and Aaron Collis offers a dozen songs, a mix of fables and memorials that criss-cross the island they call home, interpreted and arranged as a robust and incisive historical document.
Gone Jiggin' traverses Newfoundland to its farthest-flung points, starting on "The Road to Lushes Bight (Island Stock)," a town of fewer than 200 on Long Island in Notre Dame Bay; dropping in on the east coast in "The Viking Jig—West Bay Centre" (Newfoundland being home to the North America's only official Norse outpost); and west to "The Green Shores of Fogo," aka the world-renowned destination Fogo Island. The house-hopping instrumental "Ray Head's/Harry Eveligh's/Mrs. Belle's" also nods to Fogo in the form of Harry Eveleigh, as well as the playing of Ray Head in Glenwood and Belle Fennelly in Aquaforte.