Imagining Home: Out of the Tradition

Sunday 3rd April, 8pm

Room: Main Auditorium
Prices: Prices: €39.50, €29.50, €22.50
Tickets on sale Monday 23rd November, 10am
Priority Booking for Friends opens Thursday 19th November, 10am

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Usher’s Island, the Tulla Céilí Band, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Iarla Ó Lionáird.

Also just announced - Maighread & Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, singers, composers, musicians, Treasa Ní Mhiollain, sean-nós singer,
Tríona Marshall, harp; Aoife Ní Bhriain, fiddle; Louis dePaor, Irish language poet; Olwen Fouéré, actress; Brian Conway and Brendan Dolan, fiddle

A journey through Irish traditional music from its roots to the thriving traditional scene of today and an exploration of the great works of the Irish language and its place in Ireland.

Usher’s Island sees the coming together of five of the most influential and acclaimed names in traditional Irish music: Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny, both founding members of Planxty, Paddy Glackin, a member of The Bothy Band, Mike McGoldrick, member of Lúnasa and Capercaillie, and John Doyle who played with Solas.

Tulla Céilí Band was founded in 1946 by Paddy Canny, fellow fiddler P.J. Hayes, pianist Teresa Tubridy and accordion player Joe Cooley at Minogue’s Bar in Tulla, County Clare.

Solo hardanger innovator Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh is one of the most exciting new traditional music artists working with The Gloaming, This Is How We Fly and his own solo projects.

Martin Hayes is regarded as one of the most extraordinary talents in Irish traditional music. His acknowledgement of the past and his shaping of the future of the music combine to create an astonishing and formidable artistic intelligence. He performs with his long-time collaborator guitarist Dennis  Cahill.

Sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird has forged an iconoclastic solo career and is also a member of The Gloaming.
 

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