Album released in tribute to late Irish flautist
Album released in tribute to late Irish flautist
DUBLIN-based record label Gael-Linn has released an album, Bilingua, in tribute to Eithne Ní Uallacháin, the singer and flautist with Irish group Lá Lugh, who died in 1999 and who continues to influence traditional musicians on both sides of the Irish Sea and on both sides of the Atlantic.
Ní Uallacháin released her first album, Cosa gan Bhróga, in 1987 with her husband, fiddler Gerry O'Connor, and went on to work with him in Lá Lugh, forging new interpretations of the Irish tradition.
With Bilingua, which features contributions from O'Connor, their son Dónal on keyboards, uilleann piper John McSherry and Breton guitarist Giles Le Bigot, Ní Uallacháin was taking a new direction, writing her own material while still engaging with the tradition. The album is presented in a 40-page booklet, which features testimonies from singers including Mary Black, Karen Matheson, Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh of Danú.
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Memorial to fallen heroes
GLASS artist Alison Kinnaird's installation, Unknown, a touring memorial marking the centenary of the First World War, has arrived at Aberdeen's Cowdray Hall, having previously been seen at the Scottish Parliament and St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh.
Unknown is the artist's response to the present state of conflict in many parts of the world in this centenary year of the war to end all wars.
Christine Rew, Aberdeen Art Gallery manager said: "This is a very powerful and thought-provoking piece of work by one of the country's most important artists working in glass."
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