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Sunday Night Concert 2023
Tony Linnane, Mary Bergin, Éamonn O’ Riordan & Conor Connolly. Preceded by Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones / Sean Vaughan & Brian Mooney
Ennis Trad Festival are delighted to announce this year’s Sunday night concert, headlined by Tony Linnane and Mary Bergin who will be joined on the night by Éamonn O’Riordan and Conor Conolly.
The concert will open with a performance by Sean Vaughan accompanied by Brian Mooney, followed by an eagerly awaited set from Scottish duo Rachel Walker and Aaron Jones.
Tony Linnane
In the world of traditional Irish music, Tony Linnane is renowned as a fiddle player of outstanding ability. His distinctive playing has superb fluency and flow in its style and is characterised by impeccable technique and a wealth of feeling and sensitivity.
He is recognised as one of the finest exponents of the instrument in Ireland today.
Mary Bergin
Mary Bergin is a whistle player from Shankill, Co. Dublin. Her mother played fiddle, her father melodeon. She picked up the whistle at nine, having heard Willie Clancy play in an Oireachtas concert in Dublin. Influenced by visiting musicians (Kathleen Harrington, Paddy Hill and Elizabeth Crotty in particular), and by local and fleadh sessions in the 1960s (in Blackrock with her harper sister Antoinette, fiddlers Joe Liddy and Sean O’Dwyer); whistle player Terry Horan also informed her playing. She played in the Claremen’s Club in Church Street, Dublin and the Thomas Street Pipers’ Club sessions, and learned too from observation of such as singer Nioclás Tóibín in Ring and Willie Clancy in Miltown Malbay while on family holidays.
Brightly ornamented but uncluttered, her playing is distinctive with a crisp articulation, and was the role model for two decades of whistle players. Her first solo album, Feadóga Stáin, in 1979, is still definitive; Feadóga Stáin 2 came in 1989, and she has recorded several albums with Dordán. In 2000 she was awarded TG4’s Gradam Ceoil for Traditional Musician of the year.
Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones
Bringing together one of Scotland’s finest Gaelic singers and songwriters with one of the country’s foremost folk singers and accompanists, Rachel Walker and Aaron Jones celebrate songs both from the traditional and contemporary repertoire with a focus on vocal harmony and sensitive arra