Sunday Night Concert 2024

Leonard Barry, Andy Morrow, Seamie O’Dowd & Kaitlin Cullen-Verhauz / Tracy Ryan and Ryan O’Donnell / Brìghde Chaimbeul

Sunday, November 10 · 9pm: Old Ground Hotel

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Brìghde Chaimbeul

Brìghde Chaimbeul (Breech-huh Campbell) is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes; a bellows-blown, mellower cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes. A native Gaelic speaker, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. She rose to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music but has since begun a journey to take the smallpipes into unchartered territory. She has devised a unique way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity. She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, but her most recent album brings in influence from ambient, avant garde and electronic music.
Her mesmerising musicianship has won her many awards and media recognition, including BBC Young Folk Award, BBC Horizon Award, SAY Award nomination and a wide array of collaborators include Caroline Polachek, Colin Stetson, Gruff Rhys, Radie Peat.

Tracy Ryan and Ryan O’Donnell

Singer/Flute Player Tracy Ryan and multi-instrumentalist Ryan O’Donnell have been playing music together for 15 years and are currently working on an album of songs.
Tracy from Newport, County Tipperary, is an accomplished flute player and singer. Over the years she has performed and recorded with artists such as Shane
McGowan, Micheál O’Súilleabháin and The Limerick Chamber Orchestra.

Ryan from Omagh, Co Tyrone is a sought after accompanist with an authentic traditional style for songs and tunes. Ryan performs regularly and has appeared on over a dozen recordings over the last 15 years.
Together on voice, bouzouki and flute, they will perform a range of traditional songs
on the night.

Leonard Barry, Andy Morrow, Seamie O’Dowd and Kaitlin Cullen Verhauz

Leonard Barry, Andy Morrow and Seamie O’Dowd have known each other for over 20 years through meeting at various festivals in Ireland and playing music together that has seen them perform at nationally and internationally. Most recent performances this year has seen them playing at various Festivals in Denmark, France, Spain and Ireland. Whilst Andy and Seamie feature on Leonard’s new album “Littoral” released earlier this year to critical acclaim at home and abroad. They are joined by New York native Dublin based cellist Kaitlin Cullen-Verhauz who’s is well known for her work with Frankie Gavin and De Dannan and Eoghan O’Ceannabháin. The tunes are featured Leonard’s new album with songs from Seamie O’Dowd, the material reflecting the many years they have spent together.

Leonard Barry from Kerry and now living in Sligo has been one of the most sought-after uilleann pipers, sharing the stage with artists including Lisa O’Neill, Kevin Burke, Michael McGoldrick, Allan McDonald Chris Stout, Catriona McKay, and Daoiri Farrell amongst a host of others. Leonard launched his third solo album “Littoral” at this years Celtic Connections in Glasgow which in turn has led to a tour of the UK, Ireland and festivals throughout Europe and Ireland this year including the Doolin Folk Festival, Tradition Now in the National Concert Hall Dublin, Irish Cultural Centre in London amongst many others with this trio.

Andy Morrow comes from a musical family in County Leitrim; his older brother Tom is the fiddle player with Dervish. Also a multi-award-winning fiddler, Andy started his musical journey winning various national titles whilst still at school. Andy has toured Australia and Ireland Live Dred Theatre Co’s production Trad and is a regular performer and teacher at various festivals throughout Ireland and abroad. His 2006 album with concertina player Tony O’Connell and the late Arty McGlynn on guitar is a timeless masterpiece, widely regarded as one of the classic albums of Irish traditional music. Andy previously collaborated with Leonard and Seamie with Rick Epping in the band New Road, on the album Stone Walls and Street Lights.

Seamie O’Dowd is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who also plays fiddle, harmonica, mandolin, bouzouki, and other instruments. His musical experience spans four decades, from his first radio appearance at the age of ten on Radio Eireann programme Young Musicians, and playing publicly with his father, the renowned Sligo fiddle player Joe O’Dowd. He has since played with many great musicians and bands including Mairtin O’Connor, Cathal Hayden, Christy Moore, Declan Synott, The Chieftains, Jimmy Higgins, Dervish, Matt Molloy, Liam O’ Flynn, Thom Moore and Dick Gaughan. As part of the Masters of Irish Music project devised by Martin Hayes, he, along with Mairtin O’Connor and Cathal Hayden, played concerts in the Sydney Opera House and at the Lincoln Centre in New York. Seamie was also a member of Dervish for six years, during which time he played with them at the legendary Rock in Rio festival in Brazil.

Kaitlin Cullen-Verhauz a New York City native and Dublin-based vocalist and cross-genre cellist, Kaitlin Cullen-Verhauz has progressively garnered recognition for her versatility on stage and in the studio In Ireland Kaitlin frequently partners with RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award winner Eoghan O’Ceannabháin, recorded on his debut album, The Deepest Breath. In 2022 Kaitlin joined Frankie Gavin and De Dannan at Théâtre Municipal le Colisée in Lens, France, and then again at the Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte Carlo as a cellist and featured singer.