The very popular IMDL 2021 Digital Concert Series spring session comes to an end on 28th May with Saileog Ní Cheannabháin filmed on location at The Dock, Carrick on Shannon

Saileog Ní Cheannabháin is a musician, sean nós singer and composer, who has played traditional and classical music on piano from a very young age, and also plays traditional music on fiddle and viola. Her father Peadar is a sean nós singer from Connemara, her mother Úna Lawlor is a classical violinist and her siblings Eoghan and Muireann are also singers and musicians. She has a BMus degree from UCC, where she studied many different kinds of music. Having graduated with a BMus (2009), UCC awarded her the Seán Ó Riada Prize, for a study of the Songs and Singers of Iorras Aithneach. Saileog has released two albums to date - I bhfíor-dheiriú oidhche and Roithleán. I bhfíor-dheiriú oidhche is an album of sean nós songs which Saileog learned from Seamus Ennis’ collection, (housed in the National Folklore Collection, UCD) from various singers in Iorras Aithneach, Connemara. The songs were collected in the early 1940s, and are a combination of songs that are no longer sung as well as unusual versions of more well-known songs, chosen from the collection. Roithleán is a mostly solo album of traditional music, sean nós songs, and also features some tunes composed by Saileog, including guest musicians: Muireann Ní Cheannabháin, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Jack Talty, Marie McHugh, Tim McHugh and Eoin Ó Beaglaoich. Roithleán was awarded Albam Thraidisiúnta na Bliana (Traditional Album of the Year) by Nós magazine in 2018.

"Her refusal to follow the tired trajectory that often characterises that instrument within the tradition results in a beautiful lightness of touch, and her own compositions shimmer in the spaces in between" - The Irish Times

saileog.blogspot.com

This specially commissioned concert is supported by Culture Ireland.

Stream tickets £10 from www.thelockinn.io/imdl, available for 7 days after release.

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