Clare Sands and Aisling Urwin drop a new single 'Ghost on the Waves'

'Ghost on the Waves' is the latest offering from Cork born fiddler and contemporary singer Clare Sands, featuring long time collaborator and fellow UCC music alum Aisling Urwin on harp.

Having recently performed at 'El Cervantino', Latin America's largest music and arts festival, and with a UK headliner tour announced for November 2023, it seems that Sands is on a roll this year.

'Ghost on the Waves' takes inspiration from the 'Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne' and features lyrics in Irish to honour this classic folk tale. One particularly moving lyric reads as "Maireann an lá go ruaig, maireann an grá go huaigh" - meaning ‘a day lasts until it's chased away, but love lasts until the grave’.

Sands and Urwin wrote the song together over a period of 2 days, in a place which Sands describes as 'west of the west'- the Dingle Peninsula. Indeed, the music video for 'Ghost of the Waves', is filmed in Dunmore, on the Dingle Peninsula.

The song pays homage to the ethereal and ominous West Kerry landscape and the accompanying music video, directed by twin sisters  Liadain Kaminska and Kasia Kaminska, perfectly compliments this.

The sisters said: "We must have been drinking water from the same cup as Clare and Aisling, because the film and song met beautifully in the middle".

November marks an exciting month for the artist as she tours the UK, tickets are available at each venue website, which you can click on below.

Clare Sands UK Headline Tour 2023

3rd November: London - Green Note

4th November: Leamington Spa - The Temperance

5th November: York - National Centre for Early Music

6th November: Sheffield -  The Greystones

7th November: Hull- Wrecking Ball

9th November: Edinburgh-  The Caves

12th November: Aberdeen- The Blue Lamp

14th November: Glasgow• The Hug & Pint

You can listen to Ghost on the Waves Below: