Truly one of the High Kings of Irish music and without a doubt one of our favourite musicians and favourite humans, we cannot describe adequately with words, how excited we are to have Andy and Scullion share a bill and share a stage!
Andy Irvine is one of the great Irish singers, his voice one of a handful of truly great ones that gets to the very soul of Ireland. He has been hailed as "a tradition in himself." Musician, singer and songwriter, Andy has maintained his highly individual performing skills throughout his over 55-year career. From Sweeney's Men in the mid 60s, to the enormous success of Planxty in the 70s, his duo with Paul Brady in the later 70s and then from Patrick Street to Mozaik, LAPD and Usher’s Island, Andy has been a world music pioneer and an icon for traditional music and musicians.
Scullion
Hearing Scullion live has been described as a spiritual experience. It's a combination of music and poetry and all things beautiful. Having just come from a sold out show at Dublin Castle, having Scullion with us in the surrounds of Orlagh House is nothing short of magical.
Formed in the mid-1970’s, Scullion are revered and feted as one of Ireland’s most innovative, original and brilliant live bands. Their latest record ‘Time Has Made a Change in Me’ (released September 2022) emphasises the band’s musical curiosity and like all of their records, it breaks new ground. James Joyce and Sufjan Stevens are woven into the DNA of this record with the inspirational music of Sonny Condell beating at the heart of it. Recorded during the pandemic, this record is an uplifting and inspirational collection of songs for the head and heart, written to take to the highway, collapse distance and bring us back together in the halls, front rooms, back rooms and bar rooms of Ireland.
Lorraine Nash
Noted as ‘The Future of Irish Folk’ by Irish Independent, graced Australia's prestigious stages and long-running folk festivals, such as Port Fairy Folk Festival and Blue Mountains Folk Festival in early 2024 - all this at the age of 25!
Born in Kerry, Nash began her musical journey at 6 years of age, becoming a talented multi-instrumentalist of traditional Irish music –Piano, Guitar, Fiddle, Harp, Tin Whistle, Flute - she incorporates many elements of this into her current recordings, while also drawing from her love of Folk, Country, and Americana.
Citing an array of influences from Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch to Laura Marling and Lisa Hannigan, Lorraine remains authentic to her own style and songwriting sensitivity. In the wake of her debut album ‘All That I Can Be’ critic John Meagher said of Lorraine, “If Neil Young was the master at writing songs that get to the heart of the human condition, the same can be said of Nash's from-the-heart compositions.”
April 2024, she performed on a special RTÉ 1 primetime music TV show, ‘Songs of Ireland’, with Mike Hanrahan of Stockton’s Wing.
