Based on her work with the National Folklore Collection and her recent M.A in Irish Folklore, internationally acclaimed Irish folk singer Lisa Lambe brings us her new highly acclaimed project ‘Nightvisiting’, first commissioned by The National Famine Museum in Strokestown, County Roscommon. Since 2023 Lisa has been ‘Nightvisiting’ all across Ireland, America and the UK in concert halls, churches, old school houses, village halls and theatres.

Lisa has been performing with TradFest since 2017 and through the years her craft continues to evolve and celebrate the best of Ireland. Lisa collaborates with renowned traditional musicians to create a unique performance bespoke to each venue she visits based on songs, storytelling and folklore. 
‘Nightvisiting’ reconnects us to the social role that night time social house visits once played in our oral traditions and folklore, and in the preservation of our songs and stories from tender love songs, to songs of loss and longing. In the West, ‘Nightvisiting’ is known as ‘Bothántaíocht’ or ‘Cuairtaíocht’, in West Cork and Kerry, it is known as going ‘Scoraíochting’. In other counties; a visit to the Rambling House.
‘Nightvisiting’ will bring those who gather, to the hearth of the rural house, to sing the old songs and tell the local stories, many now lost or forgotten. Nightvisiting was an important part of our social society and culture, which began to fade with the electrification of Ireland in the late 1940’s when the hearth slowly gave way to the ballroom, the public house and the dance hall.‘Nightvisiting’ is a celebration and a reimagining of those nights of sharing the old ballad songs and stories by Lisa Lambe joined by some of Irelands finest traditional musicians. Not to be missed.