Vocalist and artist Ceara Conway is collaborating with musicians Kevin Murphy (cello), and Ultan O’Brien (viola, fiddle) of Slow Moving Clouds, and Anna Mullarkey, (piano, electronics) to present a live performance of her album, CAOIN.

The event will take place in An Taibhdhearc next Thursday, April 6, at 8pm.

Ceara, who is from an Ceathrú Rua, is known for her unique use of traditional song and lament in contemporary art.

In this collection of sean-nós and world music songs, released last March, she explores the sounds and sentiments of love, loss and longing found in traditional praise songs and lullabies, with an emphasis on the Irish ‘caoineadh, or lament.

Ceara has gained recognition for her singing in traditional repertoires across cultures from Irish sean-nós to Portuguese, Arabic and African song and Georgian chant.

“As a vocal artist, I have been composing, performing, and using songs as a way in which to connect with audiences on issues that we experience individually and collectively,” she explains. This includes “exploring the sense of loss we experience in relation to experiences of death, migration, feminist issues, and the environmental crisis”.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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