Greenshine in tune with family album

Greenshine are Noel Shine, Mary Greene and their 17-year-old daughter, Ellie. It’s also the title of their newly released album, a delightful collection of 14 folk and country tinged songs, book-ended by a classic Beatles track and an Irish traditional celebration of ‘May Day’.

From the opener, Lennon and McCartney’s ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’, right through to the last track, ‘Thugamar Féin an Samhradh Linn’, this new release, with its stripped back acoustic setting, is an affecting and impressive family album. Recorded at home in the West Muskerry region of Co Cork, it’s the first time that Noel and Mary have released a CD featuring their daughter.

“Ellie has been performing with us since she was 14,” says Greene. “Some of the songs on the album have been knocking around for years in demo form — some of my own songs in particular. But the bulk of the work was done in recent times. It got kind of hot and heavy over the summer. So the album was written and recorded over the years, with the final touches put on it this summer.”