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Three’s a Cloud: this week’s must-see traditional music gigs

Slow Moving Clouds are at the Quiet Lights Festival in Cork; Rising Tides is in Dublin

Slow Moving Clouds preview their new album, ‘Starfall’, in Cork on Saturday night

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Sat Sep 8 2018 - 03:00

Slow Moving Clouds

The Chapel, Griffith College, Wellington Road, Cork City Saturday September 8th 9pm €12 uticket.ie/event/quiet-lights-slow-moving-clouds

Danny Diamond, Kevin Murphy and Aki, aka Slow Moving Clouds preview their new album, Starfall, guests of the Quiet Lights festival. Slow Moving Clouds explore the further reaches of Finnish and Irish traditional music, finding new shapes and sounds through their ever-curious and inventive collaborations. Music for those who like their music finely honed.

Quiet Lights Festival

[ quietlights.net ]

An incredible line-up marks this bespoke festival, a celebration of the new wave of folk and traditional music that is steadfastly renewing our musical perspectives. Ye Vagabonds, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Lisa O’Neill and Radie Peat and Claudia Schwab are just a taster of the rich mix of artists who will mill around venues such as Coughlan’s Bar, The Chapel at Griffith College and The Roundy. Cutting-edge and low-key: a perfect combination.

Rising Tides

[ fairple.com ]

A weekend of discussion, debate and musical performance centring on the question of gender balance in traditional and folk music. With panels on the business of making music, sexual harassment and shaping the future, there promises to be much to grapple with. Sunday night’s finale concert features a cracking line-up of artists including The Friel Sisters, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Síle Denvir, Barry Kerr & Dónal Lunny, John Spillane, ATLAS, Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne, Emma Langford, Úna Monaghan, Amy Campbell, Jane Walls and Seán McKeon.

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Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, Máirtín O’Connor and Seamie O’Dowd

National Opera House, Wexford Tuesday September 11th 8pm €16/€14 nationaloperahouse.ie

Also Whelan's, Dublin, Wednesday 12th; Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co Mayo Thursday 13th; Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co Donegal Friday 14th

Music Network describe the audaciously talented Máirtín O’Connor as “swashbuckling”, and it’s an apt summary of a composer and accordionist who has taken the music to places nobody else has even dreamed of. Tonight is the opening date on a national tour, where O’Connor saddles up alongside a regular co-conspirator, Seamie O’Dowd, on fiddle and guitar. Singer Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill will bring all the riches of her song tradition, rooted in Donegal.