Sarah McQuaid

Delighted to announce that “Sweetness and Pain (The St Buryan Sessions)” is now available as a pay-what-you-want download via Bandcamp – also see this SmartURL for more streaming/download options, and click the bell icon here to set a reminder to…

Huge thanks to everyone who tuned in to the video premieres for “The Silence Above Us (The St Buryan Sessions)” on YouTube and Facebook! Here’s a handy dandy Smart URL where you can check out the video, download the…

I’m so, so excited to announce the forthcoming release of the first video and single of The St Buryan Sessions, with premiere/watch party events on YouTube Saturday January 30 and Facebook Sunday January 31!

The St Buryan Sessions were…

It’s me! Singing a Christmas song! MASSIVE thanks to the very, very wonderful Colin Harper for unearthing this lost gem of a Bert Jansch song — known only from a single performance at the Landmark Theater in Richmond, Virginia, in…

I’m delighted and honoured to announce that I’ve just been awarded a one-year membership bursary to the Ivors Academy, the independent trade body for songwriters and composers in the UK, home to the Ivor Novello Awards and to Joan Armatrading…

Hello there! I hope you’re all managing to stay safe and sane in these bewildering times. Pictured above are two things that have been helping me to get through them. There’s a further explanation below — but before I get…

Click here to watch a new “Live From Home” rendition of my song “The Tide”! If you’d like to hear me read aloud a few passages from the books that inspired it, download the sheet music (including DADGAD guitar chord…

Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks! I’ve had a bunch of enquiries over the years about the possibility of a “Sarah McQuaid Songbook”, and I always said I’d get around to it one of…

How’s everyone doing out there? I have to admit that I’m struggling a bit – I keep thinking that I’m doing fine and coping well with the situation, and then some totally innocuous thing sends me over the edge. Just…

It’s a wrap! I’m delighted to report that we’ve finished the filming and recording for The St Buryan Sessions. Huge thanks to Martin Stansbury, Mawgan Lewis, John Crooks and all the FundRazr supporters who made it possible! Also to the…