Francie Conway Teams Up With Music Legends On New Single

Francie Conway.

TRALEE musician, Francie Conway, has teamed up with two legends of the Irish music scene to release a self-penned song with a peace theme called ‘Somewhere in Heaven’.

Finbar Furey and Christy Dignam of Aslan joined forces with Francie to put down a track he wrote many years before.

The collaboration on the song will be available to download from January 30.

Appearing on The Marty Morrissey Show on Radio 1 last Friday, the three troubadours spoke of their love for the song.

“I wrote this song when I lived in Amsterdam, people then started singing the song and a band in New Jersey recorded it. That was the first time attention came it and I was quite chuffed with that,” said Francie Conway on the radio show.

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“Then when I came back to live in Ireland, I found that song became part of a lot of people’s personal landscapes, a song that people came back to for support,” said Francie.

“I’m advocate of peace, it’s something I try to live my life by, there is an alternative and that alternative is peace,” Francie tad Marty.

Francie is friends with Finbar Furey since he was 16, when he performed alongside the Fureys at the Rose of Tralee festival. Finbar lent pipes and tin whistle to the song.

In its production, the song made a remarkable journey around Europe, making trips to London, Sweden and Switzerland where different instruments were added to it.

After playing the song with the Fureys, Finbar Furey, suggested that the song would be great for Christy Dignim to sing.

“The first time I heard it was in Francie’s House. I was reading the lyrics off an iPad while Francie played guitar,” said Christy Dignam.

“It had a lovely vibe off it and it was something totally new and fresh for me to do, I fell in love with it and it took off from there,” said Christy.

Watch Francie perform the song below at the ‘Remembering The Stardust’ concert from 2007 (the song begins at 0:50).