Night one of Tradition Now focuses on new folk music with the acclaimed a lazarus soul making their NCH debut.

Following a sold-out tour of Ireland in 2022, a lazarus soul return from a 15-month live hiatus for their sole headline show of 2023.
The band’s seminal fifth album, The D They Put Between The R & L saw the band's reputation soar as one of Ireland’s most singular groups. The first three albums, alsRecord, Graveyard of Burnt Out Cars, Through a Window in the Sunshine Room had a revolving cast of musicians but the line-up of Julie Bienvenu, Joe Chester, Anton Hegarty and Brian Brannigan has endured for over a decade.

Hack-Poets Guild is the brand-new collaboration between three of UK folk’s most unique and prestigious voices; Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann. Album Blackletter Garland boasts twelve fascinating interpretations and original compositions that tell intricate tales of birth, love, conflict and death, with all the imagination of the folklore from which they’re based.

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin is a Dublin-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with his musical roots in sean-nós singing. He has recorded and performed with various bands including Skipper's Alley, Aon Teanga:Un Chengey and Jiggy. For Tradition Now, he focuses on his most recent album, The Deepest Breath.

Landless are Ruth Clinton, Meabh Meir, Sinead Lynch and Lily Power. They sing unaccompanied traditional songs from Irish, Scottish, English and American traditions in close four-part harmony. Their repertoire includes songs of death, love and lamentation, as well as work songs, shape-note hymns and more recently penned folk songs