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Irish Independent
06-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Spice Girls of trad' on their role as ambassadors for Culture Night 2025
Thousands of free events will take place across the country on September 19 When Lisa Canny, the founder of the all-female trad supergroup Biird, got a call to perform alongside Ed Sheeran at the Fleadh Cheoil, she and her bandmates had just wrapped up after performing at All Together Now over the weekend. Canny and her all-female trad collective band – often tagged as the Spice Girls of trad – have become one of Ireland's most talked-about acts of the last year. They are fresh, fierce and wildly talented, with an energy that has shaken up the trad scene.
RTÉ News
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Five times Up for the Match proved to be legendary
Ahead of Saturday night's Up for the Match, we've rounded up five top moments from the RTÉ One sports show from over the years. On Saturday night at 9.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player, hosts Jacqui Hurley and Des Cahill will present an evening of chat and music ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final which will see Cork and Tipperary face off in Croke Park. Here are five times Up for the Match proved to be legendary. The Marty Party hits Armagh The 'Marty Party' was in full swing in Silverbridge, Co. Armagh last year. Marty's grand entrance and stylish dance moves are never far from our minds! The 2 Johnnies & The Boogie Men Who could forget this banger from none other than The 2 Johnnies! And who could forget the hairstyles?! Could this be Tipperary's year again? Only time will tell. Kilkenny is Up for The Match Up For The Match is all about celebrating county pride and who better to celebrate the love of the game more than The King ahead of Kilkenny's face-off against Tipperary. Lisa Canny's Aslan tribute Folk artist Lisa Canny created this beautiful traditional Irish arrangement of Crazy World in honour of the late Aslan singer, Christy Dignam, featuring his daughter Kiera Dignam on vocals. Beautiful. Dublin's Biggest Fan - Pauline Stanley Not even their own wedding would stop this couple going to the All-Ireland Final! Des made their dream come true on Up For The Match.
Irish Independent
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Biird can do what Riverdance did for Irish music and Irish dance back in the 1990s'
Lisa Canny throws her head back and laughs. They say that you should never read the comments section, but I've just been telling her about some of the messages left underneath Biird's only official YouTube video to date, a live video called The Rollover.
Irish Independent
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Younger people have stopped engaging with Riverdance. I hope Biird is going to step into that space'
Lisa Canny throws her head back and laughs. They say that you should never read the comments section, but I've just been telling her about some of the messages left underneath Biird's only official YouTube video to date, a live video called The Rollover.
Irish Times
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Biird at Vicar Street review: Consummate musicians deliver radical trad for the TikTok generation
Biird Vicar Street, Dublin ★★★★☆ 'We represent the best of Ireland,' says Lisa Canny, harpist, banjo player and frontwoman of the 11-strong trad girl group Biird. At a sold-out Vicar Street on Saturday night, their easy confidence is intoxicating as this huge group of musicians dressed to the nines play some hair-raising trad. The girl group formed in September 2023, when they were invited to perform at one of Annie Macmanus's literary nights at London Irish Centre. A little over a year and a half later, having already played around the corner earlier in the day, at Guinness's Lovely Days Live festival, they're performing to more than 1,000 people with not so much as a single released. It's a sight to behold. 'What I loved about the girl-band thing growing up is that it was a group of girls who looked like they were having the time of their lives, doing the best things of girlhood well into their adulthood, dressing up and playing tunes,' Canny says. READ MORE The concept behind Biird is a combination of consummate musicians and clever marketing for the TikTok generation: it's cool, it's slick and it's young – as demonstrated by a highlight of the gig, the group's reimagining of Gypsy Woman, the house track by Crystal Waters. The la-da-dees of its chorus are not dissimilar to the nas of lilting. The band also deliver several sultry lilts in a set list punctuated with Irish-dancing accompaniments from performers as gorgeous and styled as the band. At one point Canny turns to the crowd and says that Biird visualise a new type of Irish music, with 'none of this paddywhackery and green rivers'. Certainly, between the international success of Lankum and the emergence of bands that are rethinking what it means to play the fiddle, such as The Scratch, they're part of the radical rebrand of trad. The only things lacking tonight are original songs. Biird play the three tunes that they've written themselves, but none of these has been released yet. If this is the kind of crowd the group can pull, and the energy they can create, based on nothing more than posters and word of mouth, what could they achieve with an album? This is a huge production from start to finish, and not only because of the 11 players on stage. Biird have proved the concept: make trad accessible to a new audience and it will come. The crowd at Vicar Street is young and stylish, a distinctly more urban and hipster listener. There's something admirably ballsy about Biird's unabashed ambition, a trait that is distinctly un-Irish, even if their music is as Irish as bread and butter.
