Stripped down sound serves stellar Gloaming lineup well

IT WAS a strange way to start a band. “In 2011 we announced we were going be a group,” says the Gloaming’s Iarla Ó Lionáird.

Stripped down sound serves stellar Gloaming lineup well

“We booked a show at the National Concert Hall, although we had not met to make any music. Time went by and word reached us that the concert was close to selling out. So we thought, ‘Wow, we better do something. It’s probably time to get a show together’.”

The group was Ó Lionáird, a West Cork vocalist with a background in the sean nós style, together with Irish-American guitarist Dennis Cahill, fiddle players Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett, an American avant-gardist who records as Doveman.

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