title: Sarah Makem
text: Sarah Makem (18 oktober 1900 – 20 april 1983) was een Ierse zangeres.
  
  Biografie 
  Sarah Makem was een inwoonster van Keady, County Armagh, Noord-Ierland en was de vrouw van fiddler Peter Makem, moeder van de muzikanten Tommy Makem en Jack Makem en grootmoeder van kleinzoons Shane Makem, Conor Makem and Rory Makem, (The Makem Brothers). Sarah Makem en haar nicht, Annie Jane Kelly, waren leden van de of Singing Greenes of Keady.
  
  In de jaren vijftig van de twintigste eeuw toerden liederenverzamelaars uit de Verenigde Staten door Ierland op zoek naar uitbreiding van hun liederenschat. Sarah Makem werd ook bezocht door onder anderen Diane Guggenheim Hamilton, Jean Ritchie, Peter Kennedy en Sean O'Boyle om haar liederen te noteren en opnames van haar te maken.
  
  Repertoire
  Sarah Makem verzamelde, zong of componeerde honderden liederen, waaronder:
  As I Roved Out
  Barbara Allen
  Barney Mavourneen
  Blow Ye Winds
  The Butcher Boy
  Caroline and her Young Sailor Bold
  The Cobbler
  The Cot in the Corner
  Derry Gaol
  Dobbin's Flowery Vale
  The Factory Girl
  Farewell My Love, Remember Me
  I Courted a Wee Girl
  John Mitchel
  The Jolly Thresher
  Little Beggarman
  Magpie's Nest
  A Man in Love He Feels No Cold
  Mary of Kilmore
  May Morning Dew
  Month of January (The Forsaken Mother & Child)
  On the Banks of Red Roses
  Our Ship She's Ready to Bear Away
  Robert Burns and his Highland Mary
  A Servant Maid in her Father's Garden
  Willie Reilly
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  
  Discografie
  Ulster Ballad Singer – Sarah Makem
  Field Trip (1954) – Jean Ritchie
  The Lark in the Morning – Liam Clancy and others (1956)
  Best of the Clancy Brothers (1994) – The Clancy Brothers
  Sea Songs & Shanties (1994) – Various Artists
  Traditional Songs of Ireland (1995) – Various Artists
  Ancient Celtic Roots (1996) – Various Artists
  Celtic Mouth Music (1997) – Various Artists
  Irish Voices: The Best in Traditional Singing (1997) – Various Artists
  Celtic Reflections (1998) – Various Artists
  Celtic Voices (1999) – Various Artists
  Who's That at My Bedroom Window (1999) – Various Artists
  Voice of the People, Vol. 6: Come Let Us Buy the License (1999) – Various Artists
  Voice of the People, Vol. 8: A Story I’m Just About to Tell (1999) – Various Artists
  Voice of the People, Vol. 17: It Fell on a Day a Bonny Summer Day (1999) – Various Artists
  Voice of the People: A Selection (2000) – Various Artists
  
  Externe link
   Sarah Makem op SmithsonianGlobalSound.org
  
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