Updated / Wednesday, 17 Feb 2021
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The team behind popular boutique festival Body & Soul have shared a brand-new multi-disciplinary project created entirely during the Stage 5 Lockdown - watch
Ériu’s Threshold above.
Culture about the ambitious project…
AVRIL:
Ériu’s Threshold was originally conceived during a site visit at Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath, when I invited Mary Hickson to collaborate on a project in response to these times. We wanted to somehow mark these times; to create something meaningful. Taking some inspiration from the natural beauty of the land that surrounds the 17th Century estate, we were both keen to lean into the spirit of Celtic female energy and use the piece to amplify the space between
The 10 best folk albums of 2020 Jude Rogers
10. Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn – Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn
Behold the Banjo Guzheng Pickin’ Girls, as goes the title of one the many joyous collaborations here, bringing together diverse traditional music from China’s marginalised communities and the clawhammer banjo style that began in west Africa before being claimed by the American south. In many tracks – such as the gorgeous Water Is Wide/Wusuli Boat Song, a weaving-together of a Scottish ballad with a Hezhe traditional – this record is a constant celebration of how music can help us explore common ground, and freshly discover it together.
The artists and team behind
Shine Your Light - Solstice on RTÉ on Sunday night have said they want the event to give the country a sense of hope and renewal as it looks to 2021 - and have encouraged people to join in with their own lights from 8:30pm.
Months in the planning, the RTÉ-Creative Ireland Programme event is calling on everyone to shine a light for an important, national moment of solidarity, on the eve of the 2020 winter solstice.
Shine Your Light - Solstice brings together a roll-call of Ireland s finest artists to celebrate the winter solstice on RTÉ One, RTÉ Radio 1 and the RTÉ Player. It follows on from the national moments of togetherness that were held in April and August.
Updated / Thursday, 17 Dec 2020
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Conor O Brien from Villagers takes flight
Villagers, hip-hop duo Mango X Mathman, and Louth-based folk trio The Mary Wallopers are among the acts who will play live on stage in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin tonight from 8.00pm - and you can watch the whole show here on RTÉ Culture.
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Other Voices: Home at the Guinness Storehouse is being held to raise funds for Ireland s music community, which has been left reeling by the pandemic, and donations will be accepted for the Irish Music Industry Covid Emergency Relief Fund throughout tonight’s show.
Stars out to celebrate winter solstice on RTÉ
Updated / Tuesday, 15 Dec 2020
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Artists including Christy Moore, Clannad, Sharon Shannon, Damien Dempsey, Erica Cody, Crash Ensemble and the RTÉ Orchestras are uniting for
Shine Your Light - Solstice on RTÉ this Sunday, 20 December. This point of the year has always captured our imaginations, symbolising new beginnings and a turning of faces to the sun, say RTÉ and the Creative Ireland Programme.