Presented By Music Network “Triur” Ionad Cois Locha Tue 22nd May 8 30pm

Ionad Cois Locha, Dun Luiche

Tionscnamh Lugh – promotion, Featuring three wondrous voices, Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich, voice Siân James, harp, voice Mary Macmaster, harp, voice This is a trad celebration of the shared musical traditions of the native-language communities in Ireland, Wales and Scotland. The whole gamut of the human condition is here: from achingly beautiful lullabies and heart-rending love songs to humorous tongue-twisters and macaronic mash-ups…

Siân James, born in a small Welsh-speaking village in Powys, has been hailed as the finest singer and harpist of her generation. Singing mostly in Welsh, she is a wonderful storyteller too, weaving tales and legends throughout the music and translating the lyrics as she goes.

Steeped in the traditions of the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht and a founder member of Ireland’s first all-female traditional band, Macalla, Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich is renowned for her individual and heartfelt interpretations of both Irish and English songs from her native West Kerry.

The Celtic connection is completed by Scottish harpist Mary Macmaster, best known for her pioneering work with the metal-strung clarsach, she is also a fine singer of Gaelic and English language songs. Mary has collaborated live and in the studio with Sting, the Northumbrian pipe virtuoso Kathryn Tickell and English folk legend Norma Waterson. Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich

“The sheer power and beauty of her voice…is stunning.”

Folk Roots on Siân James

“Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich’s songs ‘haunt the heart and animate the mind’ “

Brendan Kennelly

“Those who are familiar with Mary Macmaster’s work over the past couple of decades with Sileas and The Poozies, will already be well aware of her credentials as a first rate harpist”

Allan Wilkinson, Northern Sky

Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich, voice

Siân James, harp, voice

Mary Macmaster, harp, voice

Tuesday 22 May, Dun Luiche (Dunlewey), Co. Donegal

Ionad Cois Locha

8:30pm, €10 / €8

086 6050110

Presented by Music Network

Promoted by Tionscnamh Lugh

www.tlugh.com/