The exceptional Pauline Scanlon will be in London on 16th July launching her new album "The Unquiet"

She´ll be joined by her husband Eamon Murray of Beoga, well as her brilliant band, for this special gig at The Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith.

As a founding member of FairPlé, the role of women in the arts is central to Pauline´s creative path and something she is very vocal about and dedicated to. Her new album, The Unquiet, is a piece of art possessed of an old soul, but thoroughly modern and of its time. It is an album that will shift expectations and stand undefined by genre. What makes it so relevant is that it dares to reimagine what it is to be an Irish woman in the context of music and song.

About The Unquiet, her third collaboration with John Reynolds as producer, Scanlon herself says, ‘All my life as a singer, I have been drawn to old songs. In them I find a solidarity with the ghosts of people I have never met and yet share fragments of feelings with.’ Then deliberately turning the narrative of these songs to face the modern era, she says ‘This album is based on the life of my late mother, Eileen Scanlon and her contemporaries in Irish society. The songs have a resonance and a purpose in reflecting her lived experience and that of modern-era women in Ireland, through my perspective.’

Saturday 16th July 8pm, Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith

Tickets from £16 *special offer for readers: enter the code SUMMER on the booking page to unlock tickets at the discount rate of £5*