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venue: TLT, Drogheda, Louth

Niall Breslin & The Polaris Quartet

Built around Breslin’s cinematic compositions, the performances unfold as a fully integrated live work. Music, spoken word, and visual design, are interwoven throughout, with lighting and imagery responding in real time to the players on stage. Rather than functioning as accompaniment, the visual elements shape the pacing and emotional contours of each performance, drawing the audience into a shared, concentrated space. OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO: The Place That Has Never Been Wounded – Niall Breslin (feat Robyn Byrne) Audiences are asked to step away from external noise and into an...

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Ye Vagabonds

** 2019 BBC Folk Awards – Best Traditional Track – WINNERS ** ** 2019 RTÉ Folk Awards – Best Traditional Track, Best Group, Best Album – WINNERS**  **2021 RTÉ Folk Awards – Best Traditional Track, Best Group – WINNERS **   In 2014 they came to the attention of Arbutus Yarns’ music filmmaker Myles O’Reilly, whose videos gained international attention for the brothers for the first time.  After a chance meeting at Electric Picnic in September 2015, the brothers performed onstage with Glen Hansard, who invited them to open for him on his European tour...

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Imelda May ‘Raised On Songs & Stories Tour’

Imelda May: The Songs of the Irish. A six-part series uncovering the work of Ireland’s great music collectors from October 17 on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player This unique series of intimate evenings will feature new stripped back versions of her wide discography and favourite songs, integrated with her famed poetry & storytelling. Imelda says: “I’m coming to you soon! 17 nights of an Irish tour. It’ll be an evening of songs, poems, stories, joy and beauty. This idea evolved naturally over the last couple of years. You see, when I write, produce and release an album I get so excited to perform...

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