When traditional music duet Séamus Begley and Steve Cooney play together in Galway tonight for the first time in 15 years, the concert organisers aim to make history in more ways than one.
The event, which is part of the ‘Tunes in the Church’ series at the medieval St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church, will be live streamed to a global audience.
The concert is the brainchild of Séamus Begley’s nephew, “concertina cat” Cormac Begley, who is working with self-styled “maverick film-maker” Richie O’Donnell of Inver Films, and New York based online music broadcaster Concert Window.
Begley and his sister, sean-nós dancer, fiddle and viola player Clíodhna, from west Kerry will perform at the event, along with Begley and Cooney, flute player and church rector Rev Gary Hastings and sean-nós singer Saileog Ní Cheannabháin.
The award winning ‘Tunes in the Church’ concert series has set out to challenge the idea that traditional music has to be provided in a pub setting. It also nurtures “interactive involvement” by the audience. The live-streaming aims to allow “the spontaneity and chaotic energy of live performance to flourish, unrestrained by outside control”, the organisers say.
To follow the live stream of the event, click here.
