Lunchtime Concert: Songs from the Princess Grace Song Sheet Collection

Schedule

Thu Jun 08 2023 at 02:00 pm to 03:15 pm

Location

TU Dublin, East Quad | Dublin 7, DN

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Lunchtime Concert with Dubh Linn, Fintan Vallely, Maighread and Tríona Ní Domhnaill
About this Event
Lunchtime Concert: Songs from the Princess Grace Song Sheet Collection
Concert Hall
Thursday June 8th
2.15-3pm

Dubh Linn

Fintan Vallely, Maighread and Tríona Ní Domhnaill

Dubh Linn are an Irish music group based in the Fingal region of Dublin in Ireland, a

coastal area rich in Irish traditional music, culture and heritage. The group have been

performing together for 15 years. The band line-up features the Lawlor brothers Ray and Aido along with their wives, Fionnuala and Helen. Fiddle player Fionnuala (Fay) Lawlor is a highly respected fiddle player and teacher who comes from a family steeped in Irish traditional music for over 3 generations, stemming back to the master fiddle player and composer Ed Reavy (1897-1988), who was a defining force in Irish traditional music. Multi-instrumentalist Ray Lawlor (accordion, percussion, guitar, vocals) is a much sought- after performer and teacher of Irish traditional music. Singer and guitarist Aido Lawlor has performed with many of Ireland’s leading traditional musicians. As a songwriter his work has been recorded by artists including The Bonny Men and Aoife Scott. Helen (Lyons) Lawlor lectures in music at the TU Dublin Conservatoire and is author of Irish Harping (2012); co-editor with Sandra Joyce of Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp (2016) and Harp Studies II: World Harp Traditions (Forthcoming, 2023). The band were honoured to perform music from the Princess Grace Song Sheet Collection at Helen’s recent lecture at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco. This performance will include some of those beautiful songs arranged now for traditional ensemble.


Fintan Vallely, Maighread and Tríona Ní Domhnaill


Dr. Fintan Vallely is a musician and writer on Traditional music. He has played throughout the world, and teaches flute annually at the prestigious, Co. Clare Willie Clancy Summer School. His earliest recording is a 1979 LP, this and a 1990 album made with Berklee professor and guitarist Mark Simos; his most recent is a 2022 solo CD Merrijig Creek. He toured with singer and accordionist Tim Lyons, and performed A Fool’s Errand with the poet Dermot Healy. He was a critic with The Irish Times and The Sunday Tribune, has been a university lecturer on Traditional music in Ireland and abroad and has contributed to many academic conferences. Among his numerous books is the 1999, 2011 and (tbp 2024) encyclopedia Companion to Irish Traditional Music, and its touring show and CD Compánach, and DVD Turas. Just completed is Beating time – the bodhrán story, the first ever history of the Irish drum. In 2022 he was honoured as an Adjunct Professor with University College Dublin, and in 2023 was awarded the highest national accolade for his work, the TG4 lifetime achievement award, Gradam Saol. [imusic.ie, comitm.com]


Maighread and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill


Sisters Maighread and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill belong to a renowned singing family originally from the Donegal Gaeltacht. The unique style and repertoire of traditional singing they represent comes down to them through generations of the Ó Domhnaill family. Added to this is their distinctive unison and harmonic interpretations of Donegal songs and their fluent and accomplished singing to instrumental accompaniment. Tríona (who was a member of one of the most influential groups in contemporary Irish traditional music, The Bothy Band) plays piano, clavinet and harpsichord and also composes and arranges traditional material. With their brother, the late Mícheál, a singer and


instrumental player, they formed the seminal traditional group, Skara Brae in the late 1960s. Through this group and its one recording, now a classic, the regional songs of their native Donegal were introduced to a wide audience both in Ireland and abroad. In 1999, the two sisters recorded the album Idir an Dá Sholas with Donal Lunny. A few years later they combined their talents with two other Donegal women Moya Brennan (of Clannad) and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (of Altan) to make an album under the title T with the Maggies. Their numerous live performances are superb, and the effect of their solo and combined voices on this Irish and Irish-American diaspora material is emotional and vividly evocative.

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TU Dublin, East Quad, Grangegorman Lower, Dublin 7, Ireland

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