NCH Live Stream Series: Lisa O’Neill – Reflections

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Online, Friday 12th June

NCH Live Stream Series: Lisa O'Neill – Reflections.

Four concerts streamed live from the NCH stage starting Friday 29th of May with celebrated Irish mezzo-soprano and star of the international opera stage Tara Erraught and pianist Dearbhla Collins performing Songs of Comfort & Hope. This will be followed by Bell X1 front man Paul Noonan (Friday June 5th), acclaimed Irish folk singer/songwriter Lisa O'Neill (June 12th) and renowned Irish pianist Barry Douglas (June 19th). All concerts will be available worldwide to view on NCH YouTube channel (click on image above), Facebook and RTÉ.ie. Join the conversation on Twitter at 7.30pm before each concert where broadcaster John Kelly will take over the @NCH_Music account for live discussion. #NCHLIVE.

Lisa O'Neill is a songwriter like no other. Her roots may be sourced in folk and traditional music but her work opens up a landscape beyond any settled sense of genre. On her last album, Heard a Long Gone Song, she sets her remarkable incisive voice against impressionistic instrumental back-drops, like Margaret Barry colluding with the Dirty Three or some such meeting of minds. Lisa's latest release on the Rough Trade imprint River Lea, Heard A Long Gone Song has garnered huge acclaim both at home and abroad.

“The strangeness of all of this
I've taken to washing the messages
I wash
and I wish
and I watch
The strangeness of all of this
The news was very sad at six
I wash
And I wish
And I watch
The strangeness of all of this
I meet the odd mini bliss
I wash
And I wish
And I watch” – Lisa O'Neill.

Date:
Friday 12th June
Time:
8.00pm
Price:
Free

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