Live from the Powerhouse

2004

Mozaik had a very short time, from their inception and arrival in Australia to their first gig in a pub in Melbourne, to get a show together. It was fortunate that the pub gig was a warm up for Port Fairy Festival because we were very unrehearsed at that first gig! I can remember waiting to go on and feeling absolutely terrified!

We played Irish, American Old Time and Balkan music.

The tour lasted about a month and towards the end of it, when we were a little bit more relaxed with the material, somebody - maybe the soundman, Joe Ferguson - suggested that we should record the two concerts we were playing in Brisbane at the Powerhouse. How happy we are that we did!!

I will never forget this tour. We were a new band - I was the only person who knew everybody. Driving around Australia playing some brilliant music. It was a dream come true!!

Produced by Dónal Lunny

Andy Irvine : vocals, bouzouki, mandola, harmonica
Dónal Lunny : backing vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán
Bruce Molsky : vocals, fiddle, 5-string banjo
Nikola Parov : gadulka, gaida, kaval, tin whistle, clarinet, guitar, kalimba
Rens van der Zalm : backing vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar

Recorded live over two shows at The Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia, 30/31 March 2002.

Track list:
01. My Heart's Tonight in Ireland / Robinson County / The Trip to Durrow
02. Suleman's Kopanitsa
03. The Rocky Road to Dublin / Indian Ate the Woodchuck
04. Romainian Horă / Black Jack Grove
05. Sandansko Oro / Mechkin Kamen
06. Pony Boy / Never Tire of the Road
07. A Blacksmith Courted Me / Blacksmithereens
08. Field Hollar Medley
09. Băneasă's Green Glade
10. Smeseno Horo
11. The Last Dance