A Great Disordered Heart: Shared Futures
The final concert in the A Great Disordered Heart series, curated by Aidan O’Rourke, presents two of the most thrilling acts in Scottish and Irish folk music today.
Culminating three nights of exploration into deep musical traditions, A Great Disordered Heart’s Shared Futures features two of the most original acts in folk music today. Lau and Áine O’Dwyer are dynamic and fearless innovators with immense grounding in their respective traditions.
As the UK’s leading folk trio, Lau is a powerhouse of traditional instrumentalists, comprising fiddler Aidan O’Rourke, accordionist Martin Green and guitarist Kris Drever (who also delivers the act’s iconic, unwavering vocals). They’ve been exploring and expanding traditional musical forms since their acclaimed debut album in 2007 and continue to explode conventions, broadening their sonic palette with a recent return to stripped-back acoustic realism. The blazing focus and invention of their performances once led The Guardian to refer to them as ‘the UK’s best live band’.
Áine O'Dwyer is a multi-talented Irish composer and performer whose work is informed by both the conceptual concerns of sound-art and traditional compositional techniques, embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment, time, audience and structure. Between 2012 and 2105 she released the acclaimed Music For Church Cleaners recordings: solo improvisations on the pipe organ at St Mark’s Church in Islington. Her most recent album Gallarais was hailed by The Quietus as 'folk music at its most primordial, the emotions raw, visceral and at the same time elusive'.
Presented in association with the National Concert Hall of Ireland and The Soundhouse Organisation
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