Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & The Curly Organ

Black Gate Presents

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin 

& The Curly Organ

An Taibdhearc
8pm Thursday, April 27th

Tickets: €20
Early Bird (limited): €15

Doors at 7:30pm

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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin is a Dublin-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with his musical roots in sean-nós singing. He has recorded and performed with various bands including Skipper's Alley, Aon Teanga:Un Chengey and Jiggy. His album with fiddle & viola player Ultan O'Brien won Best Folk Album at the RTÉ Folk Awards in 2021.

"There’s a quiet revolution afoot in the world of sean nós singing. Extraordinary voices (such as those of Lorcán MacMathúna and Radie Peat) are taking the big and the not-so-big songs of our tradition and breathing fresh life into them, often luring them into depths rarely ventured by their peers in the wider music industry.

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin comes from a robust Connemara singing tradition. He has already forged a formidable identity in his 2021 duet album with Ultan O’Brien (Solas an lae) and in the band, Skipper’s Alley. This solo collection could be seen as a companion piece to recent albums by Lankum and John Francie Flynn (the latter also a bandmate).

Ó Ceannabháin’s richly textured voice draws deep from the well in his reading of Róisín Dubh, but the rest of the songs are of his own making, and they are as full of muscle, melancholy and mellow reflection as anything we’ve inherited from previous generations.

Choosing for his accompaniment everything from his own concertina and clarinet to cello, guitar, keyboards and whalesong, these are remarkable songs that, by Ó Ceannabháin’s own admission, have “brewed and stewed” in their own sweet time. With echoes of Margaret Barry on the funky Dublin City Fever Dream to the stark intimacy of Only the Earth, this is music of, by and for the fractured times we live in." 

- The Irish Times

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The Curly Organ

Galway’s own Sovereign-Prophet-Weirdo-In-Residence, The Curly Organ, brings his unique brand of Body-and-Mind Folk to An Taibhdhearc for a rare and much anticipated solo performance. 

Operating from Galway city, The Curly Organ is perhaps best known for his social-engagement happenings, such as Catcalling Outside AIB and Tír na Micreafón. In his very unique live show, Curley Organ takes you gently by the hand and guides you calmly through a museum of human experiences (both the extreme and the banal). This singer-songwriter is eager to do more than put on a show. He aims for C a t h a r s i s !, both for himself and his audience.

“The Curly Organ’s is one of eccentricities and singularities, seeming to introduce a litany of characters and scenarios over breathless verses, switching from falsetto to mile a minute wordplay, before moving onto a new idea.” - GoldenPlec