July 11: Live With Caitríona O'Leary 'Unaccompanied' #10 on Facebook

Live With Caitríona O'Leary 'UNACCOMPANIED' #10

“Surely, National Treasure Status Cannot Be Far Away…Caitriona O’leary has a proud background as composer and singer in not just exploring roads less travelled, but of discovering paths not travelled at all...an enigmatic performer with otherworldly qualities that thrives in areas of the unusual and unreal… that greatest of tributes: I’d like to hear that again.”        

(Dick O'Riordan, Sunday Business Post)

On Saturday July 11, at 2:30 PM Dublin time (GMT 1:00, EST 9:30 AM), Heresy Records' recording artist Caitríona O'Leary (www.caitrionaoleary.com) will perform the eighth installment of Unaccompanied, her ongoing weekly mini-concert series (in costume) live-streamed from her room in Dublin on Facebook. This series was inspired by a concert O'Leary performed as part of Ireland Performs, an online series of concerts established in response to the Covid-19 pandemic presented by Culture Ireland and Facebook Ireland. Videos of all concert are available for replay on her YouTube channel:

FACEBOOK LINK - https://www.facebook.com/caitriona.oleary.3/

YOUTUBE CHANNEL - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-O5nz3FMldmVrdGP1eAAhw?view_as=subscriber

Unaccompanied 10

The Programme

The Cuckoo - Traditional English and Irish

Dame a qui m'ottri - Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300 - 1377)

Cuckanandy - Traditional Irish

CAITRÍONA O'LEARY is internationally renowned as a singer of early music, traditional Irish song and folk music, notably distinguished for her abundant performances and recordings of unaccompanied song. In reference to a concert she performed at Beethovenfest Bonn, the General Anzeiger wrote, "This is a special genre of vocal art, called sean nós...in this type of singing O'Leary is a master." She has recorded over twenty critically acclaimed albums with her band Dúlra and the celebrated early music ensembles Sequentia, The Harp Consort, Joglaresa, eX among others. Her recording of The Wexford Carols (producer Joe Henry, guest artists Tom Jones, Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, Dónal Lunny) reached #1 on Billboard. She has worked closely with many of 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 has toured and performed throughout the world and regularly performs at top Festivals in Europe and beyond.