Traditional Music Highlights Ahead
Scullion are finishing up a residency at the Grand Social, Dublin
A number of gigs worthy of noting are coming up. Sadly, the first Aran Trad Festival had to be cancelled at the last minute due to a bereavement on Inis Mór, but either the Féile na Laoch or the Cork Folk Festival could provide alternatives for some. Cork sees Joanie Madden’s Cherish the Ladies finish up the Irish leg of their extensive twenty-fifth anniversary tour before heading for the United States. Supporting the Ladies in Cork at An Spailpín Fánach will be Toner Quinn (of this parish) and Malachy Bourke.
Also on tour and heading Stateside afterwards, with their new CD Exile’s Return in tow, are Karan Casey and John Doyle. They are playing the Cork Folk Festival tonight and are at An Droichead in Belfast on Saturday.
Also headed for the USA are Brendan Begley and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh but not before playing in St Brendan’s Church, Bantry, County Cork, on Saturday as part of the Autumn Concert Series.
On Sunday the Ace and Deuce of Piping is on in Liberty Hall, courtesy of Na Píobairí Uilleann.
Then Monday is the last chance to see Scullion in its Grand Social residency. Their guest for this one is Lisa O’Neill. In the Grand Social the next night, Tuesday, for the Liffey Banks Sessions, is Lúnasa, and they will be followed the week after by Moya Brennan and Cormac de Barra.
In the meantime, Liam Ó Maonlaí’s collaboration with Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre’s Michael Keegan Dolan, based on Ó Maonlaí’s musical homage to Ó Riada, Rian, will run from 6-8 October as part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival. (See video below.) Also playing a part in the festival is Tarab, providing live music in Rough Magic’s surreal version of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt.
Published on 30 September 2011