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Extra.ie
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Irish music festival back for 2025 with impressive line-up
The Common Threads music trail will return for its third year in the Burren North, Co. Clare, with events running from October 10-13, 2025. This year's lineup features a diverse assortment of Irish musicians, including fiddle players Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Martin Hayes, traditional-inspired electronic artist Lullahush, keening vocalist and multi-instrumentalist RÓIS, pop singer-songwriter Morgana, as well as Bantum, Daithi, Aindrias de Staic, Sally Cinnamon, Graham Dolan, Sunday Spinners, Piqué, Common Threads DJs, with more to be announced. Peter Kelly and Daithí O Dronaí programmed the events, which they said aimed to highlight creative interpretations of Irish tradition and culture. 'This year's theme focuses on new approaches to Irish music, from RÓIS's contemporary sean-nós explorations, to Lullahush's innovative use of Irish samples, and Colm Mac Con Iomaire's powerful take on traditional fiddle,' Dronaí said. 'As always, we're bringing the party too, and I'm especially excited to have one of my favourites, Morgana, leading the charge.' Performances will take place in a variety of settings across the Burren, including caves and castles. Attendees will be transported to event locations by bus. 'Heading into our third year in the Burren feels both exciting and grounding,' Kelly said. 'We've learned more each year, refocusing and putting care into the areas that matter most while staying true to the spirit that shaped Common Threads. And of course, we have some extra bells and whistles in store, making sure every artist and attendee has a really special weekend on the west coast.' Tickets for the whole weekend programme with a bus tour of the venue will go on sale Thursday, July 3 at 10:00 a.m., and tickets for individual events will go on sale Friday, July 4 at 10:00 a.m.. Tickets will be available for purchase on the event website.
Irish Times
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: Paddy Hanna, Lullahush, Cushla, Maria Somerville and Danny Groenland
Paddy Hanna: Oylegate (Strange Brew ) ★★★★☆ Paddy Hanna has been a critics' darling for years. Oylegate, his fifth album, may not help him cross the line to commercial success, but if there is some contentment in writing songs that make the weight of the world less burdensome, then he has achieved that, at least. Produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band, the album features silky-smooth – which is strikingly ironic given that the songs' lyrics are influenced by 'the crushing lows and euphoric highs of parenthood' and 'by an artist embracing change rather than fighting it', as Hanna puts it in the album notes. [ Self Esteem on the music business: 'It's things like dressing rooms with only a urinal which make women give up' Opens in new window ] Lullahush: Ithaca (Future Classic) ★★★☆☆ The Athens-based Dubliner Daniel McIntyre, aka Lullahush, is on to something with Ithaca, his paganistic marriage of traditional Irish music and twitchy electronica. The album is a brazenly multilayered piece of work, by turns serious and skittish. Irish colloquialisms and spoken word sit beside spine-tingling sean-nós (Saileog Ní Cheannabháin's An Droighneán Donn), Hawaiian guitars, techno drones, the vocals of Maija Sofia (radiant on Jimmy an Chladaigh) and the most imaginative version of Patrick Kavanagh's Raglan Road you're likely to hear. Occasionally messy it might be, but McIntyre has fashioned something different here, something bold, something else. Cushla: Tech Duinn (Foehn Records) ★★★☆☆ Cushla's debut album, Tech Duinn, a collaborative project between the Wexford-based producer Marc Fernandez, the Co Kilkenny composer and remixer Leo Pearson and the Co Cork Gaeltacht singer Nell Ní Chróinín, pleasingly ventures to places we're becoming very much accustomed to. Tracks such as The Mountain, 7 Years, Aisling, Fós and Geantraí nimbly fuse sean-nós with soft drum-machine pulses, synthesiser embellishments and engrossing ambient music. Maria Somerville: Luster (4AD) ★★★☆☆ Maria Somerville has never been reticent about drawing influences from her native Connemara, but what marks her out as an original is the way she complements the uneven, magnificent wilderness of the landscapes with lush shoegaze and slow-motion postpunk. She wrote and recorded most of Luster at home, close to Lough Corrib, with notable contributions from Ian Lynch of Lankum, who provides uilleann-pipe drones on Violet, and Margie Jean Lewis, who plays violin on Flutter. READ MORE Danny Groenland: Burning Rome (self-released) ★★★★☆ Danny Groenland's album Burning Rome brings influences of Steely Dan, Weather Report, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and D'Angelo to its meticulously executed soul/jazz. The narrative focus may not be joyful – themes include homelessness, inequality, mental health, police brutality, climate change, racism and genocide – but not one song on the album is a drag to listen to. From soulful summer heat (Somewhere) and Steely Dan-style silkiness (Work Out) to piano ballads (Never Going Home) and positive vibes (Chip In), Burning Rome sizzles from start to end.
