Album Notes

Jesse Ferguson is a folk musician from Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, and his love of Scottish and Irish traditional music was nurtured in the neighbourhood of Glengarry County, home of North America’s biggest Highland Games. He sings and plays several musical instruments, including the guitar, mandolin, violin, harmonica, bodhran and pennywhistle. He has performed solo and with other musicians in Cornwall, Ottawa, Miramichi, and Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, where he currently resides. He posts videos of traditional music on the website youtube (youtube.com/BardofCornwall) under the name The Bard of Cornwall, and his personal website can be found at www.jesseferguson.ca. His work has been featured on The Irish and Celtic Music Podcast, as well as on the Podcast's recent best-of compilation (http://cdbaby.com/cd/boticmp).
While he has been recording music for several years, New Old Songs is his first album for release. Jesse performed all instrumentals and vocals, recorded and mastered the tracks, and designed the CD’s layout. He did all this while pursuing his PhD in English literature, and while getting his first book of poetry, Harmonics, published by Freehand Books.