During the four day festival performed alongside the Irish Folk rock institution CLANNAD many other well-known artists, including the Singer / songwriter legend DONOVAN as well as that Actress and singer HAZEL O'CONNOR ("Breaking Glass", "Eight Day"). CLANNAD's Moya Brennan loves to encourage young talent. Among them are also Maighread and Stephen from nearby Letterkenny, which has been considered for quite some time BLACKBIRD & CROW travel through the Irish homeland. What the two had already achieved in various clubs and at festivals, they also achieved on the stage of the marquee at CLANNAD - standing ovations and an audience that hardly wanted to calm down after their performance.

Your very own style of music, one Mixture of blues, soul, psychedelic underground and Irish folklore, tore everyone from their seats and enthused the employees of MIG so much that after their return from the Emerald Isle they could no longer reconcile it with their conscience not to take care of this great team. MIG signed the two Irishmen in the summer. Two months ago Maighread and Stephen moved to the Attica Studios in Donegal with the well-known producer Tommy Mclaughlin (including Villagers, Altan, Angelo Kelly & Family) to record their first official long player.

"Ailm" (Irish name for the twentieth letter from the early medieval alphabet Ogham) comes in the spring of next year. One can look forward to this unconventional duo, two characters who have been looking for each other, who have come together in their music, complement each other, break each other, constantly reinvent in a musical field of tension full of mysticism and energy, which simply takes the listener's breath away. BLACKBIRD & CROW one experiences, then one succumbs to their fascination.