Name: INCANT
Start: 2025-07-20T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-20T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Interface

INCANT

Interface

Incant is a live performance featuring Ceara Conway’s newly composed contemporary vocal works, Grief Spell and Dátheangach.

Incant is a live performance; a song cycle featuring Ceara Conway’s contemporary vocal works, Grief Spell, Dátheangach and Viriditas, along with newly arranged traditional folk songs and poems that explore themes of language, loss, and the environment.For this performance, Conway will be joined by acclaimed musicians Matthew Nolan (electric guitar and synth) and Lisa Dowdall (violin/viola d’amore).Ceara Conway is an independent Irish contemporary vocal and visual artist. Her work encompasses a diverse range of media, including live performance, photography, sculpture, video and collaboration. Central to her practice is an interest in the utilisation of traditional and contemporary song and contextualised performances to explore how we, as individuals and societies express and experience loss and grief in response to social and humanistic issues such as migration, language, death, and the environmental crisis. Alongside her contemporary vocal work, Ceara's debut album CAOIN (Independently released) in 2021 announced her arrival as an emerging singer on the folk scene in Ireland today. Earning a nomination from the RTE Folk Awards for best track, the album received soaring praise.‘’Her respect for tradition, her embrace of innovation, all mark her out as a unique portal in intersectional cross-disciplinary art practice in this country at the moment.’’ Alice Maher '' Conway provides heartfelt interpretations throughout, adroitly pitched vocals matched by delicate, poetically evocative accompaniments. Sung entirely in Irish, CAOIN pitches Ceara Conway at the forefront of a new generation of sean nós singers.'' Songlines Magazine Matthew Nolan is a Dublin based musician, music curator, and academic. He was the founder and artistic director of 3epkano from 2004 to 2015, an instrumental music ensemble who specialised in the production of original music for movies from the silent era.Over the last 10 years, he has been involved in producing new music for several award winning Irish films including Exile in Hell, Runners, and Somewhere Down the Line. He teaches Film Studies at Dublin Business School and Trinity College Dublin. Ongoing and current projects include Dracula and People on Sunday.Matthew has also worked on commissions from a range of performing arts institutions and arts organisations, including: The Audi Dublin International Film Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, National Gallery of Art, Cork and Dublin French Film Festivals, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, Cork Midsummer Festival, Film Society at Lincoln Centre in New York.Lisa Dowdall- An innovative and versatile musician, Lisa Dowdall has focused her career on chamber music in all its forms from early music through classical to hardcore contemporary, experimenting with newmusical genres, art forms and venues. Lisa has performed as a chamber musician, recitalist, and in chamber orchestras throughout Europe, the United States, South America, Australia and Asia. She has performed at The Edinburgh Festival, BBC Proms, Canberra International Music Festival, Ban on a Can Marathon, with residencies at Huddersfield International Contemporary Music Festival, Princeton University, Montclair State University and Aldeburgh Residencies. Performance highlights include performances in Carnegie Hall (USA), Kennedy Centre (USA), Barbican (UK) as well as live radio broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, Lyric FM, ABC and WNYC. Since 2007, Lisa has been a member of the internationally acclaimed new music group Crash Ensemble, collaborating with composers and artists from all genres and disciplines, premiering works written for the ensemble by Terry Riley, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Nico Muhly and Donnacha Dennehy.This performance at Interface is in association with Galway International Arts Festival.

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