Lisa Hannigan in St Michael's Church, Ballina

Ballina Fringe Festival - our next festival runs 3-12 October 2025!Ballina Fringe Festival is an artistic exploration of life lived on the edge of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way served up in a festival of words, art and music  from 3-12 October in association with the Ice House Hotel & Spa. Join us as we dip and weave our way though exceptional art, musical entertainment, cultural  discoveries, tales well told and lyrical words that dance through poetry.

Ballina Fringe Festival

Lisa Hannigan at Ballina Fringe Festival
With special guest Aisling Mullarkey

St. Michael's Church

Ballina Fringe Festival is delighted to welcome Lisa Hannigan, one of Ireland’s brightest stars for an intimate solo performance in the beautiful surroundings of St. Michael's Church of Ireland.A singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Lisa has carved out a hugely promising international career as a solo artist. She first came to light as a somewhat mysterious figure singing harmonies alongside Damien Rice., contributing significantly to his platinum-selling debut O and critically lauded follow up 9.They played together for seven years, but it wasn’t until the release of her solo debut ‘Sea Sew’ that the full spectrum of her abilities became apparent.Lisa has since been stretching her musical expertise in many directions, collaborating with artists as diverse as Ray LaMontagne, The National, Richard Hawley, Herbie Hancock and Glen Hansard.She made her acting debut as Bronagh, a mermaid in the Oscar-nominated animation ‘Song of the Sea’, followed by playing Blue Diamond in Cartoon Network’s ‘Steven Universe’ and her haunting voice has featured on soundtracks for the TV series ‘Fargo’, ‘Legion’ and the Oscar-winning score for ‘Gravity’, all the while founding and co-hosting the acclaimed ‘Soundings’ podcast (which saw Lisa turn interviewer, and speak to guests such as Harry Shearer, Sharon Horgan and David Arnold).Over the course of her extensive career to date Lisa has appeared at festivals all over the world, and live TV appearances such as the Tonight show with Jay Leno, The Late Late show with James Corden, and The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert, the Mercury Music prize and Later withJools Holland.Lisa is supported by Ballina’s Aisling Mullarkey, who has been singing and performing from a young age.In 2018 she reached the televised semi-finals of the Junior Eurovision with her own song, written in Irish. in 2021, Aisling along with her friend Hope won a national song-writing competition set up by Inspiring You Ireland with an uplifting song composed by themselves during lockdown. As part of the prize Damien Dempsey visited their school and they performed together and talked about music.Aisling was also selected last year by Midwest Radio as one of five national finalists for the Local Hero Talent Search with her original song, during Irish Music Month.She’s no stranger to busking either, and is a familiar face in Ballina and Enniscrone. During lockdown, Aisling kitted herself out with recording equipment and created her own Instagram account <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aislingmullarkeymusic/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@aislingmullarkeymusic</a> where she started recording and uploading cover songs and things took off from there!Tickets €20+ booking free. Early booking advised.

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