Watch Lisa O’Neill perform from NCH stage on Friday, June 12th
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, and use the hashtag #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
Supported by Davy, as Innovation Partner, Culture Ireland, RTE.ie and The Irish Times, NCH Livestream Series sees four concerts to be streamed live from the NCH stage starting Friday, May 29th at 8pm with celebrated Irish mezzo-soprano and star of the international opera stage Tara Erraught and pianist Dearbhla Collins performing Songs of Comfort and Hope. This is followed by Bell X1’s frontman Paul Noonan (5th June, 8pm), acclaimed Irish folk singer/songwriter Lisa O’Neill (12th June, 8pm) and renowned Irish pianist Barry Douglas (19th June, 8pm).
All concerts will be available worldwide to view on NCH YouTube channel, Facebook and RTE.ie.