Ireland Performs, Facebook and Culture Ireland Present Caitriona O'Leary In On-Line Program of Unaccompanied Songs: Ansacht na nAnsacht (Love of Loves

Ireland Performs, Facebook & Culture Ireland Present Caitríona O'Leary In On-Line Programme of Unaccompanied Songs: Ansacht na nAnsacht (Love of Loves)

 On Saturday May 2, 2020, Heresy Records' recording artist Caitríona O’Leary (www.caitrionaoleary.com) will perform an online concert of unaccompanied songs for Ireland Performs, an initiative to support presentations by Irish artists in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will be streamed through Caitríona’s social media channels and will also be carried on Culture Ireland’s Facebook page.

 Ansacht na nAnsacht (Love of Loves) – Ireland Performs

Saturday May 2, 2020 @ 12.30 PM (Ireland/UK)
Link to the broadcast: https://events.cultureireland.ie/events/caitriona-oleary/

 Ireland Performs was launched on April 3, 2020, attracting over 120,000 viewers from around the world during its first week.  Funded by Facebook Ireland and Culture Ireland, a division of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland Performs has hosted artists including Mick Flannery, John Spillane and Sharon Shannon. 

Caitríona’s performance of Ansacht na nAnsacht (Love of Loves) was conceived to celebrate the glory of unaccompanied song – a genre in which she is a recognized master. “This music is a special genre of vocal art called sean nós…in this type of singing O’Leary is a master” – General Anzeiger (Bonn, Germany).  The repertoire for this concert is organized around themes of love and nature featuring songs from the 13^th – 20^th centuries including medieval songs, sean nós songs and folksongs from Ireland, Scotland and America.

 This coming summer Heresy Records will release The Red Book of Ossory, presenting the debut of the early music/jazz ensemble Anakronos, founded by and featuring Caitríona. In October 2020 Heresy Records will release another album featuring Caitríona - Strange Wonders, The Wexford Carols Volume 2, produced by Ethan Johns, with Caitríona O’Leary, Alison Balsom, Seth Lakeman, Clara Sanabras, John Smith, Olov Johannson, the choir Stile Antico and others.

ABOUT CAITRÍONA O’LEARY

The celebrated Irish singer Caitríona O’Leary is known internationally for her intense and passionate performances of Traditional Irish song and Early Music. Her recording of The Wexford Carols, an album of traditional Irish Christmas carols, with producer Joe Henry & costarring guest artists Tom Jones, Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, Dónal Lunny & an all-star band reached #1 on the Billboard charts.    

Caitríona has performed around the world in scores of major venues including London’s Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Cité de la Musique and the National Concert Hall, Dublin. A regularly invited guest artist in international music festivals, she often collaborates with early music’s leading artists including Christopher Hogwood, Ben Bagby, Andrew Lawrence King, Konrad Junghaenel, Pedro Memelsdorff, Hille Perl, Lee Santana and many others. Caitríona is also active as a soloist in contemporary music productions and is known for her Irish language interpretations of the songs of Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell.                                                                                                                                      

Caitríona O’Leary has recorded over twenty critically acclaimed albums with her band Dúlra and the celebrated early music ensembles Sequentia, The Harp Consort, Joglaresa and eX (the Irish-based Early Music ensemble she founded in 2006). These have been for Heresy Records, EMI Virgin Classics, BMG Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Vox and Avie.