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Fusion of trad and world music from talented Kíla
Dublin band Kíla bring their fluid, sometimes riotous, fusion of world music and trad to Monroe’s Live on Monday, December 29. The band’s most recent album is Suas Síos, their 17th release since 1991 – the band formed in 1987.
Kíla are brothers Rónán, Rossa and Colm Ó Snodaigh, Seanan Brennan, Brian Hogan, Dee Armstrong, Eoin Dillon and former Frames drummer Dave Hingerty.
Among the instruments that feature at a Kíla gig are bodhrán, djembe, uileann pipes, low whistle, clarinet, bazouki, mandolin, bones, saxophone and percussion. Throw Rónán Ó Snodaigh’s distinctive voice into the mix and the result is a band of rare fire.
Their concerts are a flurry of virtuoso playing and skilled improvising. Kíla also run their own record label.
But with members embarking on solo projects and having children is there still enough of buzz within Kila to keep them going?
“We’ve had to ourselves that on numerous occasions, especially where everyone’s family situation has changed,” says ColmÓ Snodaigh. “You have to ask yourself not only are you enjoying it but also is this the right thing to be doing at this stage of your life; very fundamental questions. The answer is ‘yes’ to all of them.”
Fans of the band can see 2014 out in style when Kíla come to Monroe’s on December 29. Doors 10pm, tickets €15/€12.50 online.
Actor Aedín Moloney will bring her one-woman performance, Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom, to the city’s Town Hall Theatre next Tuesday, May 30.
Aedín adapted this piece from the Penelope chapter in James Joyce’s Ulysses in collaboration with Irish author, Colum McCann who, like her is based in New York. The music for the show, in which she journeys into the mind and heart of Molly, was especially recorded by Aedín’s father, Paddy Moloney. The founder and leader of The Chieftains, he died in 2021.
In the early hours of June 17, 1904, Molly Bloom’s husband – the philandering Leopold ‘Poldy’ – has just come home and fallen asleep.
With an empty nest, an unfulfilling affair and a marriage long past its prime, Molly embarks on a stream of consciousness journey as she contemplates the love that she and Bloom once shared.
She seeks to reanimate that love and ends up discovering herself as a woman seeking purpose and a desire to be relevant, even after their love is over and her children are gone.
Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom was named winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for best solo performance when it premiered in New York.
The project has been more than 20 years in the making.
“I’ve been fascinated by Ulysses since my youth, and after 30 years of exploring the character’s depths, it was Colum McCann who inspired me to turn those musings into reality,” Aedín explains.
She began working on the adaptation in 2003 and recorded the full monologue with music by her father in 2017. Colum McCann partnered with her to complete the adaptation in 2019.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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Some of the greatest hard rock and blues ever recorded will be heard at the Róisín Dubh this Saturday, May 27, when No Stairway, Ireland’s leading Led Zeppelin tribute band, play two shows at the city’s Dominick Street venue.
There’s an ‘All Ages’ show at 4pm and an evening show at 8pm.
Based in Galway and made up of four of the city’s finest musicians, No Stairway have a passion for this music and recreate Zeppelin’s live presence and studio albums as faithfully as possible.
Vocalist Steven Sharpe is a devotee of Robert Plant, describing the singer as his “spirit animal”. His vocal range can pay homage to Plant’s high notes, passion, sensitivity and swagger.
Guitarist Ronan O’Malley who takes on Jimmy Page’s role, is versatile and gifted and capable of delivering monumental riffs. Shane O’Malley (bass/keys) in the multitasking role of John Paul Jones, is at the heart of the group, keeping things tight and grounded.
Drummer John Tierney, who will be performing in John Bonham percussive style, is the founder of the Rhythm Drum School and has worked as a drummer for 30 years.
The band was founded in 2013 and has been winning fans countrywide since.
This Saturday’s ‘All Ages’ show is from 4-5pm (doors 3.30pm) and the evening show is at 8pm.
A family ticket is €30 while under-18s can use the code UNDER18 for €6 tickets. Single tickets are available at roisindubh.net.
The kindness that Gerry Mulholland (Jarír Al-Majar) had shown to so many people during his seven decades on this earth was repaid to him by strangers when he collapsed on Mary Street in Galway City on Friday, April 28.
Two young medics who were on the street went to his help and performed CPR until an ambulance arrived. Their act kept him alive and meant his family had 12 extra days with him until his death in UHG on Wednesday, May 10.
At his reposal in O’Flaherty’s Funeral Parlour on Saturday, May 13, Gerry’s twin sister Breda thanked those medics, in a moving and occasionally humorous eulogy. She spoke of the lifelong bond between Gerry and herself and of rescuing him on occasions when his principles got him into trouble.
She spoke of the beautiful, fun boy he had been, growing up in Salthill, and the unbreakable connection they’d had since childhood.
And she spoke of his central role in the life of his family – first of his siblings, then his nephews and nieces, and more recently the next generation again.
Gerry and Breda had discussed the type of funeral he wanted, and it was to be a celebration with no black worn and with music from the many friends who had been touched by his own musical talent through the years.
Among them was bouzouki player and Clare FM presenter Eoin O’Neill who had observed on social media that when Gerry played the piano in Tigh Neachtain (which he did with great regularity), “he had an energy that took over the room”.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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