Folk singer Cara Dillon has said she was shot in the face by pellets from a suspected BB gun while walking through a Somerset town. Ms Dillon, from Dungiven, Co.
Frome, Somerset, may not be all that far from Derry it’s a straightforward airplane commute from nearby Bristol to Belfast but during the pandemic lockdowns, Cara Dillon felt as though she was a world away from the place where she grew up.
The folk maestro’s latest record, Nothing But Green Willow, is a beautiful collection of songs from the Appalachian Mountains. Here he tells us how he breathed new life into them