Beautiful alliance of talent to be showcased in Clonmel gig

Clonmel World Music presents Pauline Scanlon and Barry Kerr performing their collaboration The Longing in Moynihans in Clonmel onFriday March 24.
The Longing is a collaborative traditional singing project between renowned artists Pauline Scanlon and Barry Kerr.
Featuring the beautiful voice of Dingle’s own Pauline Scanlon, the duo share the singing of great songs from the Irish Folk and Traditional canon.

You will hear great versions of The Galtee Mountain Boy, Back Home in Derry, Ye Rambling Boys of Pleasure, The Old Churchyard, Fair and Tender Ladies and many more. This is a great opportunity to see a top class performer.
Both are established performers in their own right but they are also long-time collaborators on their respective endeavours. This alliance is an inevitable outworking of years of concerts, sessions and late night sing-songs, where a mutual repertoire and telepathic understanding of expression has cultivated a powerful force in song.

Focusing on traditional songs where feelings of longing for home, freedom, love, acceptance and peace are central themes, they have created beautiful, contemporary arrangements whilst celebrating and amplifying the essence and deep truths within our tradition.

They both when they took up a residency at Baile Mhúirne’s Ionad Cultúrtha in the summer of 2022 and they brought this project to life through the residency.
Pauline Scanlon:

Pauline Scanlon’s voice comes from an ancient place but is always fresh. She is uniquely Irish yet universally understood, apparently traditional yet subversive at every turn. Perhaps now, it is the steely strength that comes to the fore in both her activism and her determination to constantly evolve as an artist.
As featured vocalist with the Sharon Shannon Band for three years, as a solo artist, and as a member of vocal duo LUMIERE, and with her many other musical collaborations and projects, Pauline Scanlon has entranced audiences the world over with her distinctly delicate intensity.

In 2009, Scanlon along with fellow West Kerry chanteuse Éilís Kennedy formed the vocal group LUMIERE and subsequently signed to SONY records in Ireland.
The duo have performed all over the world together from folk clubs and festivals to London’s Barbican Theatre and New York’s Carnegie Hall in December 2014.

Pauline has also presented several music based Television programmes for both the BBC and TG4 in recent years.
Pauline’s recent collaborative project with Galway band The Whileaways Bird On The Wire – The Songs Of Leonard Cohen has been a runaway success, selling out every concert since it’s beginning in January 2019.
Gerry Lawless promoted a a sold out show in Minella Clonmel with this collaboration
Barry Kerr:

Originally from the southern shores of Lough Neagh in County Armagh but now living and working in Dublin, Barry Kerr is one of Ireland’s most accomplished artists.

His work as both a composer and visual artist expresses the very heart of Irish life. As a highly regarded singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and painter he is extremely prolific in his creative output.
He has toured the world as a solo artist and has been equally at home sharing the stage in the company of other artists including Steve Cooney, Cara Dillon, Julie Fowlis, Lumiere and Dervish. Renowned folk acts such as Karan Casey, Flook, Jiggy, Beoga, Brian Finnegan, Damian O’Kane and Kate Rusby include his compositions in their tour repertoires.

As Artist in Residence at the celebrated Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts in Belfast for a number of years, Barry played a central role in developing the city of Belfast as a vibrant cultural hub.
Barry has been a professional musician and visual artist over a career spanning twenty years. He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist playing the uilleann pipes, flute, guitar and bouzouki and is also a singer-songwriter. Barry was the recipient of the Liam O’Flynn Award in 2020.

Barry has collaborated many times with Pauline over the years.
Doors for the gig will open at 8pm. Pauline and Barry will be onstage at 9pm prompt.
Tickets are priced at a keen €15 each, and are on sale now, from Gerry Lawless on 086-3389619, or online on www.clonmelworldmusic.com