Hugh Doyle, born in Kinnetty, Co Offaly, has been travelling all his life. He spent much of his life singing around the campfire, learning songs from his uncles.
A Romany Gypsy singer now living in Hampshire, England, she has possibly the largest repertoire of songs of any traveller singer alive today, including a few rare gems!
Ken Knox is a former trawler captain from Hull, born in the 1930s, with a wealth of fascinating stories from his life at sea, living in close connection with the ocean.
Irene Smith is a Romany Gypsy-Traveller born in the 1930s in Heddon who lives in Hull. She remembers the days of the old ways, the willow pegs, the wagons, the hawking.
Husband and wife Johnny 'Buffalo' Connors and Lil Connors of Enniscorthy are singers from a large traveller family with links to the Cashes and Cassidies.
Molly Collins, a singer from the Irish Traveller community, is from a family of tinkers and was one of ten girls and three boys growing up around County Longford.
Edward McDonagh from Tuam shares some of the oldest traveller songs in these recordings by the SCC, including ‘The Scaffold’ and ‘The Outlandish Knight’.
Julia is a singer from the Irish Traveller community. She was born in the 1930s and raised by her grandparents after being orphaned. She and Molly Collins are first cousins.
Bridget Reilly is an Irish Traveller and singer living in Co. Limerick who remembers the old times by the fireside and many of the songs to go with it.
Teresa Corcoran is a singer from the Irish Traveller community whose family and young grandchildren still sing the old travelling songs in the old styles.
Mary Collins is a singer and tradition bearer from the Irish Traveller community now living in Co. Westmeath. She has a signature style for decorating her old songs.
Maggie is a singer from the Irish Traveller community, living in County Galway. She sings many of the ancient songs including a rare version of 'What Put The Blood'.
Willie Heaney is an Irish Traveller and tradition bearer living in Belfast. Willie remembers many of the very old songs and a staggering amount of lyrics and verses.
Aberdeen Traveller and legendary keeper of many hundreds of Ballads, Stories and old Scots lore. He became a scholar at Aberdeen Uni and wrote several books on Traveller culture.
Sally is an Irish Traveller now living in County Wexford. Sally sings many songs that she learnt from her parents and grandparents, some of which are now sung by her own children.
Cuthbert is a young folk singer, artist and dry stone waller from West Yorkshire. He is currently based in London and carries with him a rich repertoire of indigenous songs.
Nan Cassidy is a singer with a powerful voice from the Irish Traveller community. She and Kitty Cassidy are sisters, both singing many old songs passed down through their family.
