Ship in the Clouds on stage — guitar, button accordion, fiddle, and bodhrán in a warm wooden concert hall

Traditional Irish Music

Ship in the Clouds

Fiddle · button accordion · bodhrán · guitar

The Band

Four musicians, eight instruments

Ship in the Clouds is a collaboration of musicians hailing from America's hotbeds of Irish traditional music, Boston and New York City. Having performed together in various configurations for decades, all four are accomplished musicians in their own right — playing eight different instruments between them. With strings, reeds, sticks, and skin, Ship in the Clouds brings an airy lift and a playful energy to the living tradition.

The name comes from a crooked American fiddle tune out of the mountains of West Virginia.

  • Laura Feddersen with her fiddle Laura Feddersenfiddle
  • Natasha Sheehy playing her button accordion Natasha Sheehybutton accordion
  • Anna Colliton with her bodhrán Anna Collitonbodhrán
  • Nathan Gourley playing guitar Nathan Gourleyguitar
The Album · 2020
Ship in the Clouds album cover — an airship drifting through clouds at sunset, artwork by Anna Colliton

Ship in the Clouds

Fourteen sets of reels, jigs, slides, polkas, waltzes, and set dances — old tunes from both sides of the Atlantic, played the way they come out after years of sessions together.

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Recorded by Nathan Gourley at Copley Street Studios. Mixed and mastered by Dan Cardinal at Dimension Sound Studios. Artwork and design by Anna Colliton.

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