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A two day wealth of Irish musical talent from artists and composers, Irish Origins Series features the “pyrotechnic young talents” This is How we Fly, who will open the weekend with their much anticipated second album release, fusing Traditional Irish music, Swedish folk, Jazz and percussive dance.
Isabelle O’Connell performs a curated program of renowned living composers from Ireland on piano and electronics, and Iarla Ó Lionáird, Irish vocalist, and NS Group-in-Residence Contemporaneous partner for the first time to perform composer Donnacha Dennehy’s “Grá agus Bás”, the reimagined sean-nós songs of composer Dan Trueman, whose arrangements, created from the oldest origins of Irish music, bring to the stage a living tradition in a modern light.



