Ceolchoirm na Nollaig le Trá Pháidín agus Ultan O'Brien

Trá Pháidín

Áit éicint leathbhealach idir Showband, Céilí band agus elastic band a gheobhaidh tú Trá Pháidín.
Níl aon focal go dtí nach d’úsáid siad le cur síos ar a chuid cheoil ar mhaith le soundáil smartáilte ar nós jazz le ceol traidisiúnta le kosmiche
Tony Allen ride-áil Andy Irvine san elevator (leaid sa Bierhaus, Gaillimh 4/5/2024)
Somewhere halfway between a Showband, a céilí band and an elastic band is where you’ll find Trá Pháidín.
There is no word that they haven’t yet used to make themselves appeal more to the public like jazz with traditional music with kosmiche
Tony Allen and Andy Irvine in an elevator (Lad in the Bierhaus, Galway 4/5/2024

Ultan O'Brien

Ultan makes music on the fiddle and viola and has a background in traditional and improvised
music. He performs as a soloist and creates music for theatre & film. He is known also for his
collaborative work, touring and playing in bands and duos with Martin Green (Lau), Eoghan Ó
Ceannabháin, Nic Gareiss, Slow Moving Clouds, Skipper’s Alley, Neil Ó Lochlainn’s Cuar, and
John Francis Flynn.

Recently he composed and performed the music for a theatre production, Not A Word, by
Brú Theatre alongside actor Raymond Keane and director James Riordan for a week of shows
during Galway International Arts Festival 2023. An album he made with Eoghan Ó
Ceannabháin, Solas an Lae, which was released on the Scottish label Watercolour Music, was
awarded Best Folk Album at the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards 2021. 

In 2022, he was commissioned to create a film and score as part of Ulysses Journey 2022. The film
was screened in IFI, Dublin; CCI, Paris; SARC, Belfast and Budapest, Hungary, and at
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2022. 

Ultan is releasing his debut solo album in March 2024 with Nic Gareiss and Martin Green.