Jacqui Mcshee's Pentangle 'She Moves Through The Fair' (Live 2007)

Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle performing 'She Moves Through The Fair', taken from the live DVD 'In Concert at the Little Theatre'. Available to buy from the Park Shop here: parkrecords.com...
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"Glorious stuff, deeply atmospheric and immaculately sung and played. The current line-up of Pentangle kicks up an absolute storm and Jacqui's voice is gorgeous."
Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music
Pentangle is a name that strikes a chord - a name that came to dominate the music scene of the late sixties and early seventies. Two decades later, McShee was still creating a sound that is genuinely original, this time through her own project, Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle.
The band have carried their spirit of adventure forward to the live stage, the results of which can be seen and heard on their DVD release, In Concert at the Little Theatre. Material from 1998’s Passe Avant is allowed even greater freedom to grow and develop away from the studio setting, the band thriving on the improvisational nature of their playing. They also visited some of the many high points of their history - turning a new eye to such classics as Cruel Sister, The Wife of Ushers Well, Lovely Joan as well as the traditional standards like She Moved Through the Fair. The combination of jazz and folk music has never sounded so natural, the two great examples of the people’s music meeting in one thrilling whole.
Pentangle expanded the frontiers of folk music in the 1960s and since then, the various line-ups have continued to make groundbreaking music. One thing has remained constant, however - Jacqui McShee's unique voice is always to the fore. The DVD features Gerry Conway on drums and percussion, Foss Patterson on keyboards, Alan Thompson on bass, and Jerry Underwood, soprano and tenor sax .
2007 was an eventful year for Pentangle. In February, the band was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ceremony in London. A CD set charting the bands forty year career was released, followed by a hugely successful UK tour. The release of their In Concert DVD seemed a fitting end of another year in the history of this unique band.
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[@MelliaBoomBot]

Jacqui is 65 years old here...to have the gift of a voice and able to sing like this for decades is something very lucky..

[@josiahquincy2744]

I'm lost in her beautiful rhyme

[@DjNikGnashers]

I saw her in concert 2 years ago and she still sounded brilliant. They headlined the Lincoln Folk Festival, and it was a magical performance.

[@cynthiahenderson450]

Wow ... I was unaware she was still singing. Lost track many years ago. My fave is still Sandy Denny.

[@baliksupper6043]

@Jeremiah Sullivan B gone dickhead!!

[@hannealbrechtsen461]

McShee has a formidable technique😊

[@riggstwenty2]

2021....... just discovered Pentangle....... wtf have I been missing ! What a voice !

[@reneharde3459]

check out their early stuff, you will not be disappointed

[@jonathansimmonds5784]

@@reneharde3459 I sometimes feel sorry for younger generations, they missed out on SO much good music in their teens, we Boomers had such a variety we could legitimately listen to.

[@garyomalley816]

I've just discovered them .... my goodness...I close my eyes n see rolling English hills,apple orchards n winding rivers filled with a simple life .... lineage noone can erase

[@TheBehindtheMask]

Play the album cruel sister. So good!

[@jamesdeluca6657]

Listen to willy o windburry

[@reneharde3459]

Just WOW! That voice has stood the test of time - still incredible so many decades later

[@vickystanley8853]

Her voice is as pure and ethereal as ever.

[@rorybell2161]

Her voice is just... ethereal. It cuts and I can't think of an alternative. There are many imitators but this is the gold standard.

[@insaneAlchemyOfeviI]

I was born Ireland, - my roots go back thousands of years, this beautiful rendition fills my heart & soul with joy ...

[@22grena]

I hope you are now fighting to save your country from foreign military age male invaders

[@chrisarcher6972]

This woman could sing the birds out of the trees.

[@thecharlesfoley]

Still that beautiful voice...she's gorgeous inside and out. So thankful for gifts like her, shining bright always.

[@katiescarlett5249]

I think Jacqui's expression and voice is even more beautiful. If that is possible; just breathtaking!

[@davidshilton6441]

O dear you youngster of today need to do your research. Use KZbin and listen to all stuff fro 60s 70s. Go back in time and learn many things. Today can't even touch the past

[@annother3350]

@@davidshilton6441 ?!?

[@scottburghart9278]

I have been listening to Pentangle since the early 70s and this version is so beautifully played and sang.......i am blown away! Jacqui has gotten only better with time. Wonderful, thanks for posting.

[@Crinklechip-s]

I’m on a “She Moved Through The Fair” trip. I highly recommend it. There are a million versions!

[@barbararenton8009]

Thank you, I'll surely do that, Crinklechips!

[@NOOne-im5vg]

Personally I like Julianne Regan's rendition.

[@jeankennedy5445]

I also love the Mary Black version. Who would have thought a sitar would sound so great in a traditional Irish folk song.

[@robplazzman6049]

The joys of You Tube !

[@timothymarkonis3630]

Beyond sublime

[@Catmanxii]

I'm a rocker at heart but I saw the later incarnation of Pentangle in the 80's live at a folk do I was dragged along to & I have to say, they were bloody awesome! My ex liked to sing some of the same songs they perform & it always reminded me of the performance I'd been at that left me completely stunned when she did.

[@daveskerritt185]

This kind of music takes us to a higher place. Jaqui is amazing.

[@peterulrich497]

Jacqui, the purest singing voice I have ever has the pleasure to hear.

[@chrishawcroft5855]

still wonderful after all these years

[@russcohen3779]

Beautiful voice

[@kencowie5407]

Such a beautiful voice I would have loved to have met or talked to her . I saw Pentangle in 1968 in Hull I've loved the band ever since .. the sixties was the golden years of folk

[@regisauble3811]

En... 1976, je découvrais "the Pentangle" avec l'excellentissime album, "the basket of light"! J'ai souvent partagé depuis, avec une joie non dissimulée, le plaisir d'écouter cette musique, ce groupe et cette magnifique voix!!! Et aujourd'hui, il m'arrive encore et toujours d'écouter ces chansons avec autant de plaisir, et de les faire connaître à des personnes qui, je sais, les apprécieront... Merci au "Pentangle", merci Jacqui pour votre merveilleux talent!!!

[@magenta6754]

Beautiful song, so full of soul and a past that lives on in haunting echoes.

[@patrickregan3302]

So adoreable!!!! First heard her music on public radio here in the states decades ago!!!! And of course the entire band.. Thanx to the Wonderful Fiona Ritchie of Scotland and her 1 hour radio series called “The thistle and Shamrock” ❤

[@RealDiaz]

Her voice still so beautiful!!

[@joneses1962]

She is absolutely wonderful. I'm sad that I didn't find Pentangle until a couple days ago.

[@drstevie]

Beautiful.

[@johnbeckett5289]

Voice perhaps lower than was but still so pure and in tune, love those little "bent" notes. So soulful...perfection. Oh and love the understated manner.

[@davidholiday4494]

absolutely magnificent

[@jackdumont1481]

I first heard a song from them called "The Storyteller." It's still one of my favourites all time.

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

I’m still blown away by her voice- she’s amazing.

[@paulpayton8238]

Hi jacqui you've still got it lovely lady lovely vioce lol Paul p Birmingham England xx bless you ❤☺

[@historiasmusicales8879]

Lo admito. Decidme lo que queráis, pero el mundo de la música es muy muy grande y es prácticamente imposible abarcar todo. Si, desconocía la poderosa voz de Jacqui McShee, la descubrí por aquí en un video de 1972, y me encanta, reconozco que canta increíble. :D

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

Love that saxophone!!!

[@westrig180]

Nice Bass & Vocal accompaniment and that bass interval at the end of this part 2:36 just sends you way out there !

[@JivanSunder]

Beautiful.....the arrangement reminds me a lot of Fairport's A Sailor's Life

[@cynthiahenderson450]

I still prefer Fairport's version ...

[@lindsayheywood7195]

@@cynthiahenderson450 Me too!

[@johnc5160]

What a stunning arrangement of an old song, mininal and so effective....

[@robertcommon6974]

It is typically graceful of her, and also thoroughly appropriate, that Loreena McKennitt gives credit to the poet who composed the lyrics. In the introduction to "Collected Poems of Padraic Colum" (1953) John L. Sweeney writes of Colum that "oddly enough, he will be remembered by many who (as Yeats noted) have never heard his name. At least one of his poems, "She Moved Through The Fair", with an air composed by the late Herbert Hughes, has so securely acquired the status of folksong that it has been collected as such."

[@paulpayton8238]

Jacqui you don't age lovely lady lovely voice God bless you sweetheart lol Paul p Birmingham England x x

[@lilyofthevalley5586]

Jaqui's so fabulous!!! What a voice!

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

She got beautiful with age!!

[@philipferguson8570]

Beautiful version of a beautiful song.

[@Redsince66]

Very beautiful, Sinead O Connor does a brilliant version too.

[@marchon2027]

What an amazing voice. I had never heard her voice before. I stumbled on a link and was so happy I clicked on it. I just wish I had known about Ms. Jacqui sooner!

[@kbvolunteer3828]

You may want to go back and listen to the incredible recordings she did in the 60's and 70's.

[@saradecapua3264]

@@kbvolunteer3828 Fairport Convention is in the same league.

[@timlarge7420]

@@saradecapua3264 Jacqui is married to Fairports drummer Gerry Conway

[@saradecapua3264]

@@timlarge7420 That figures. Both groups were amazing. We need to get back to music like theirs.

[@timlarge7420]

@@saradecapua3264 Were? Are! I'm seeing Fairport on 14th Feb for probably the 8th time

[@VerbranntiChaib1]

Was a princess, now a Queen.

[@bridboland8839]

I have listened to many versions - this is the most ethereal and very beautiful...perfect touch -singing and background create atmosphere missing in some other versions

[@jackkrag]

still takes me there.. thank you so.k

[@terryburton851]

perfect,,,,,just PERFECT

[@3wideBob]

Wow!

[@zootszabo2415]

Yep still love her lol

[@camusmonamour]

37 ans plus tard et toujours aucune ride liée à un quelconque sourire... mais quelle voix formidable !

[@paulpayton8238]

Jackie you and your voice are lovely god bless you lol Paul p Birmingham England xx ✔☺❤

[@1chriscarlone]

incredible

[@petethefeet5281]

Love that fretless bass

[@terryburton851]

its just like heaven booootifull…..

[@musicjottings]

Timeless

[@AlanTaylor-q6l]

Lovely song! Lovely voice! Simple minds must have based 'Belfast Child' on this traditional folk song!

[@philchamp2640]

From their April 2000 concert at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The DVD release date is 2007.

[@apkroland]

Wonderful.

[@donhammer186]

I'd like to leave some comment as to what might improve this rendition, I cannot. I'd like to replicate the beauty of her voice on my guitar, I cannot. I'd like to have more of her voice and passion in my collection... that I will do!

[@Jolei622]

lovely in every way. Thank you for posting this!

[@england670]

Wow. So haunting

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

When I sing this in pubs I always introduce it as "A ghost story".

[@DaStoneboat]

I heard an Irish father hint to his son that it is a ghost story, confirming, "yer onto it now, son."

[@diogenesagogo]

Yes, I've said elsewhere this could inspire the most wonderful, mysterious horror film ever made.

[@chumkymukherjee8863]

-Just one star awake-no one can sing that line like Denny,not even Mcshee!

[@jennyrose9454]

Well I prefer her over Anne Briggs. Just not a fan of Anne lol

[@Vingul]

@@jennyrose9454 what's not to like about Anne Briggs?

[@jennyrose9454]

@@Vingul you know what that comment was so long ago. I can't even remember

[@David_P132]

Wow.

[@bwanna23]

She and Maddy Prior look like they could be sisters.

[@joea.9969]

bwanna23 I've got them confused a few times

[@purplegrant]

Have they ever worked together? That would be a match made in music heaven.

[@purplegrant]

@1400deadwood ooh. Thanks!

[@sarahdicksondarkmoondreame3437]

Lol. I just said that to my husband.

[@mtamin1]

Yes I have thought the same.

[@econoroller]

wow

[@jtrevino5268]

Robert Plant. You two should sing together

[@richardtofts4977]

Absolutely

[@adrianburnell1623]

Fairport's version puts every other attempt in the shade. RT's restrained guitar compliments Denny's voice perfectly. Is that Spencer Cozens, JM's old bandmate on keyboards.?

[@donny38075]

I would think they were an inspiration for the group Iona. So similar.

[@nilsknospe4976]

👍

[@fromtheend4253]

She looks like Queen Victoria in a Wig!

[@MROCD]

First 2 seconds ....time machine. . Right were off...

[@badjemima]

Alastair Campbell on keyboards there.

[@acopolito]

Belfast child de Simple minds?

[@geoffpoole483]

Belfast Child is based on this (much older) song, yes.

[@tmm7369]

Sorry, but it's old Irish traditional song

[@tmm7369]

@@geoffpoole483 Sorry, but it's an old, ancient Irish traditional song

[@teachnaduinn3134]

All About Eve's version?

[@greenman6141]

She's pretty much doing the version that Sandy Denny recorded with Fairport in the late 60s. It is very nice, but the interpretation borrows everything from Denny.

[@cactusjohn9145]

don't be trite. no kind words.. say nought... your shadow is behind you too

[@greenman6141]

@@cactusjohn9145 Um, you need to check the meaning of "trite'.

[@petehill8885]

Was Simple Minds Belfast Child based on this?

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Pete Hill yes

[@Hypermarlin]

@@user-ky6vw5up9m Try this for inside-by-inside comparison! kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3LIYXt5fa-HeqM

[@johnjarvis2499]

Simple minds surely nicked this and called it Belfast child.

[@garymorgan3314]

They did indeed. Jim Kerr sang it rather well I thought.

[@julieshrive3198]

The cream of the crop.How's about the Convent Stroud for Streaming & Performance contacted Copredy & Bonnie Tyler plus Dale Vince Ecotricity ? Then theres Dylan & Paul Simon & ?

[@janetmackinnon3411]

It"s obviously a mann's song. why is it so impossible to find a male version?

[@janetoryem1683]

Anne Briggs’s song

[@peterbashford9262]

Beautiful, but apart from JMcS not sure what it has to do with Pentangle!

[@jokirk541]

Is it me or dose this sound like Belfast child

[@KallistiUK]

You mean Belfast Child sounds like this - this song is somewhat older than U2 :)

[@stechriswillgil3686]

It’s a young woman’s song. Nice version though, but age has robbed her of authentic passion.

[@shaunmcgee4204]

Behave yourself.

[@ivqii]

I am a huge admirer of Jacqui but she is not up to this song - check out Annie Briggs' version

[@jonathanellwood]

Nope!

[@daibhiofiacra4162]

In most great songs I believe the melody is more important than the words, and I would certainly be of that opinion in this lovely old song. But of course the words are also hugely important, and it is unfortunate that Jacqui McShee simply does not know the correct words to this song. This is unprofessional - anyone singing a song (on stage) should go to the trouble of learning the words.

[@historyman1581]

'Unprofessional'? oh give your head a wobble. Its a traditional, and there are numerous versions. .'Correct words' - whose? Hughes? Colum? McGarvey? Some bloke in a 19thc cottage making baskets? How would you know? What are you, the lyric police? JS has been singing since the 60s, to question her professionalism is an absolute insult. Get in the bin.

[@lindsayheywood7195]

@@historyman1581 Thank you history man for that resounding response to the silly comment above.

[@WildBoreWoodWind]

Jacqui McShee, a very fine singer but she tortured this song, it was a poor arrangement, far too heavy and brooding.

[@kingrobert1st]

Yes a bit of a dirge...never really got under way.

[@jonathanellwood]

Matter of opinion I think. In my opinion it she is spot on. I dosage with you.

[@shaunmcgee4204]

I like this version.

[@peterward9446]

*_It would seem that an unknown Irish minstrel, whose identity is now lost in the mists of time, created the greatest ballad, ever to have been recorded - in any genre. Should we be surprised._*