In this very special song event, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and Niamh Keady-Tabbal will bring sean-nós singing and Irish traditional music into dialogue with Arabic songs from Palestine and Lebanon.
Through songs of exile, emigration, love and resistance, the performance moves between traditions shaped by histories of displacement and colonialism.
Tickets: €10
Date: Sat Sept 5
Time: 2pm – 3pm
Venue: Old Methodist Church, St Laurence St, Drogheda (beside A92 E921)
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Dublin, whose musical roots are in the Conamara sean-nós singing tradition.
A versatile performer, he draws on a variety of vocal techniques like lilting and throat singing, concertina playing that breathes with his singing, and a lifting flute style that all combine to create a rooted, expansive soundscape.
His songs, carried by a powerful, resonant voice, have a storytelling quality to them, and move through themes of struggle, loss, resistance and healing.
Niamh Keady-Tabbal
Niamh Keady-Tabbal is an Irish-Lebanese singer and researcher from Kinvara, Co. Galway. Through her work documenting border violence in the Mediterranean, she has gathered Arabic songs of exile and resistance from Lebanon, Palestine and Syria.
She sings these alongside sean-nós songs that she has gathered from Irish singers, carrying them all in a gripping, expressive voice.