Be curious, be bold, be blue-sky! If you had the chance to design a brand new concert experience, how would it look and feel? Interested in investigating and shaking up past concert models, Crash Ensemble Community Manager and Violinist Larissa O’Grady will lead a workshop focusing on the design of a new music experience. Creating …
An honest, human and emotive response for now and the future. Tonight Crash Ensemble play a selection of their [REACTIONS] commissions & postcard miniatures for the first time to a live audience, alongside sounds from across the globe… and… the first outing of a brand new piece ‘Standing Water’ by Kevin Terry, winner of the …
Two great pianists, one great concert Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata – Frank McNamaraBeethoven: Appassionata Sonata – JJ McNamara INTERVAL Chopin: Ballade No 3 Frank McNamaraChopin: Ballade No 4 JJ McNamaraLiszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1 Frank McNamaraLiszt: Waltz from Gounod’s Faust – JJ McNamara Encores – some bonus fun 4 hands one piano pieces. Like his father, …
‘COLMCILLE, DOVE OF PEACE’ A major new work from composer Vincent Kennedy Come along and be part of the world premiere of a remarkable suite of new music by composer Vincent Kennedy, ‘Colmcille, Dove of Peace’. The work has been specially commissioned for Colmcille 1500 and has been inspired by significant happenings in the life …
An exciting West Donegal double header for Trad Week 2022, Caitlín & Ciarán and The Friel Sisters at the Regional Cultural Centre Acclaimed Irish musicians each in their own right, Gaoth Dobhair-based Caitlín Nic Gabhann and Ciarán Ó Maonaigh have joined forces to create one of traditional music’s most impressive acts. Partners on and off …
Trad Week presents this special gig at the Regional Cultural Centre to celebrate Paul Harrigan’s Seven Waves project. There’s no doubt Covid has hit musicians hard. Despite being starved of their admiring audiences Donegal traditional musician Paul Harrigan has been using his time for an astonishing creative project. Multi-instrumentalist, Paul Harrigan is never anything other …
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Damien McGeehan launches his new album at the Trad Week gig in the Regional Cultural Centre. Donegal fiddle player Damien McGeehan is a household name in the Irish music industry and a much sought after touring and session musician. The Ardara native recently released his eagerly-anticipated second solo album, Kin, which has received rave reviews …
An exciting West Donegal double header for Trad Week 2022, Caitlín & Ciarán and The Friel Sisters at the Regional Cultural Centre Acclaimed Irish musicians each in their own right, Gaoth Dobhair-based Caitlín Nic Gabhann and Ciarán Ó Maonaigh have joined forces to create one of traditional music’s most impressive acts. Partners on and off …
Trad Week is thrilled to host Pontún, a new Irish-based music quartet embracing folk traditions from Ireland and Africa, at the Regional Cultural Centre. The band features several Jiggy players, including Éamonn Galldubh on Whistle & Uilleann Pipes, Robbie Harris on Percussion, and Niwel Tsumbu on Guitar & Vocals. The legendary Steve Cooney also joins …
The High Kings are Finbarr Clancy, Darren Holden, Brian Dunphy and newest member Paul O’Brien. Formed in June 2007, The High Kings play 13 instruments between them, creating the unique sound that thrills audiences all over the world. Their self-titled debut album, released in 2008, reached number 2 on the Billboard World Music chart, setting …
Walls Talk, brings together solo dancer, Breandán de Gallaí, and singer, Gina Boreham in this deeply moving work. Set against the back drop of by songs from the jazz golden era, this work explores notion of memory being recorded in the material world around us: all our actions, our feelings and thoughts, frozen in matter …
Donegal singer/songwriter Rory Gallagher, who has been releasing and producing his own music since 2011 under the project name Rory and the Island has had quite the 2 years since the global pandemic began. After moving his family to Edinburgh in Scotland to open a brand new live music bar in the city called “The …
NB: due to the severe weather forecast for Fri 18 February we have rescheduled this event to Fri 25 February. BBC Radio Ulster Classical Connections presenter John Toal hosts a stellar quartet of singers, including award-winning mezzo-soprano Carolyn Dobbin and rising star Amy Ní Fhearraigh, performing a programme of much-loved opera arias, duets and ensembles. …
