UK CD re-release -Beyond The Seas by Lawrence Hoy

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Folk fans will finally get the chance to hear a Wigan musician’s tribute to Australia’s first settlers on CD three decades after it was first released.





email from  Lawrence Hoy, Folk Singer/songwriter from Wigan - please contact him if you would like a copy.

In 1988, I released an album: a memorial of the First Fleet to Botany Bay. On The Friendship and The Lady Penrhyn there were two people from Wigan, Henry Taylor & Mary Smith. The story of their transportation forms the basis of my album Beyond The Seas.
In 1988 it was released on vinyl and cassette.

I released it on CD last year: I’m currently working on the Folk Clubs around here presenting the album as a show.

https://youtu.be/MbVlAefB7Ok    https://youtu.be/y_Fv8amYbuE

Hope you enjoy the song-suite  



 

Review in Wigan Today/Wigan Observer/Wigan Post, February 2018 -

The full-length release, telling the story of two Wiganers sentenced by the town’s magistrates to be transported to the colonies Down Under, initially appeared in 1988 to mark 200 years of the First Fleet’s arrival at Botany Bay. 

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