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The Low Country is the middle section of the Ards Peninsula of County Down, Northern Ireland - the most easterly point in Ireland. It is only 20 miles from Scotland, dotted with small farms and villages, halls and harbours. 

From Carrowdore to Kirkistown, their ancestors worked the fields and harbours here for at least 400 years, people who read their Burns and knew their Bibles. And from time to time, they got their fiddles out and enjoyed some music!

The Boys have amassed a significant collection of old-time gospel songs from friends, relations and fans which have been penned in Ulster-Scots. Songs such as Fu an Skailin, a version of the Sunday School favourite Running Over in the "Hamely Tongue" not only displayed their musicianship and great harmonies but also enabled enthusiastic audience participation. Highlights include the group's rendition of Hank Williams' I Saw the Light and also a local song called The Hallelujah Man, a poem by the grandfather of local concert promoter Colin Agnew, which the guys have put to music. It is also interesting to hear Gran Time Comin*, the title track of their current album, as it was penned by one of the key figures of the 1859 revival in the area, namely Jeremiah Meneely.

*Gran Time Comin is background sound