Intricate guitar work and vocals layer the selections on this duet album. Featuring original compositions and timeless lyrics, Adiiye and Sproule explore the sounds and textures of instrumentals and songs.  It’s magical music, sprung from a shared love of beautiful melodies and innovative arrangements.

 

This album is, above everything, a record of a friendship. A collection that grew from years of playing together — the recent ones from across an ocean. It is music about movement: about rivers and journeys, about love and leaving, about the places that stay with you long after you’ve gone. It’s a theme that was never far from our minds even when we lived in the same place — and one that feels more alive than ever now that we don’t. Derry and Donegal, Uganda and Massachusetts, Minnesota and Cork — the tunes and songs here live in the spaces between all of those places, and in the friendships that made the distances worth crossing.

-Victoria Adiiye & Dáithí Sproule

 

Track Listing:

  1. Taylors Falls
  2. Peace in the Storm
  3. The Island of Woods
  4. Patty's Tune #1
  5. The Beaver Brig
  6. An Teach Bán
  7. The Queen of Hearts I
  8. The Queen of Hearts II
  9. There but for Fortune
  10. The Overland Trail

 

Credits:

Produced by Macdara Ó Faoláin & Conor O'Sullivan
All tracks arranged by Victoria Adiye & Dáith Sproule
Artwork & Design by Victoria Adiye
Photography by Lisa Richardson (unless otherwise specified)
Sleeve notes by Dáithi Sproule

Recorded by:

John Wright at The Villa, Savage, Minnesota
Martin O'Malley at Malbay Studios, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare
Steve Kaul at Wild Sound, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Conor O'Sullivan at Hidden Studios, Blarney, Co. Cork

releases June 12, 2026
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Victoria Adiiye & Dáithí Sproule

There but for Fortune is available as both a CD and digital album on Bandcamp.

The recording will be released at a launch concert on June 12, 2026, as part of the Minnesota Irish Music Weekend.

Tickets and information here.
 

Selected Discography