Saturday, March 6:  Singer Caitríona O’Leary Live from Dublin on Facebook with “Unaccompanied 37”

On Saturday 6^th March, Heresy Records’ recording artist, Caitríona O’Leary, will perform the 37th installment of Unaccompanied: the artist’s monthly series of micro-concerts live-streamed on Facebook on the first Saturday of each month at 2:30 PM Dublin time (GMT 1:00).  For Unaccompanied 37 O’Leary performs a wide range of songs written - or intended - to be performed without accompaniment. The repertoire for Unaccompanied includes medieval songs, sean nòs, folk and traditional songs from Ireland, England, Scotland and North America among other rarely heard works. During the broadcast O’Leary speaks about the history, provenance and texts of the songs. She often performs variants of the same song which may be found in different countries and on different continents. She performs in costumes which she designs and makes for each performance. Videos of the concert are available for replay on her YouTube channel. The idea for Unaccompanied was inspired by a 2 May 2020 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.

UNACCOMPANIED: FEATURING CAITRÍONA O’LEARY

EVERY SATURDAY BEGINNING 2:30 PM (GMT 1)

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

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

For Unaccompanied 37 Sancto Vincentio, Martire Amoroso - 14th century Italian Lauda in praise of St. Vincent of Saragosa, Sleepy Body is an 18^th century traditional Scottish song, Bean Dubh an Ghleanna is an 18^th century traditional Irish song that exists in a diversity of versions throughout the country and Cold and Raw is a 17^th century traditional English song and was a popular dance tune in England, Ireland and Scotland.

Unaccompanied 37: Programme – Saturday March 5, 2021 @ 2:30 PM (GMT 1)

Sancto Vincentio, Martire Amoroso - 14th century Italian
Sleepy Body - traditional Scottish, 18th century
Bean Dubh an Ghleanna - traditional Irish, 18th century
Cold and Raw - traditional English, 17th century

Caitríona O’Leary (www.caitrionaoleary.com) is internationally renowned as a singer of early music, traditional Irish song and folk music. She is particularly known for her performances and recordings of unaccompanied song. In reference to a concert which 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.” Her latest recording for Heresy Records, The Red Book of Ossory with her ensemble, Anakronos received five stars from the Irish Times, ArtMuseLondon called it “a singular work of genius” and RTÉ Lyric fm and The Journal of Music lauded it as “One of the records of the year”. Most recently she is featured in the short film, Love’s Fever based on the song Deh Lassa La Mia Vita from Day 7 of Boccaccio’s Decameron - Watch it here.

Beloved and respected the world over, Caitríona has recorded twenty-five 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.  She has toured and performed around the world, including such venues as the Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Cité de la Musique and the National Concert Hall, Dublin to name a few. She regularly performs at festivals throughout Europe and beyond including Halle Handel Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Tage Alter Musik Herne, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Festival Montalbâne, Festival Cervantino Guanajuato (Mexico), Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Concerts Spirituels Geneva, Zagreb Summer Evenings Festival, Split Summer Festival (Croatia), Dublin Theatre Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Belfast Festival at Queen’s, among others.