This Is How We Fly taking wing on graceful airs

This Is How We Fly, a group that brings a diverse range of skills and experiences together, are out to make honest music.

When the then director of the Dublin Fringe Festival Roise Goan demanded of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh that she wanted him to put together something nobody had ever heard before for the 2010 festival, it was the kind of challenge that might have proved daunting to some. But the gifted fiddle player had already established himself as an open-minded collaborator, particularly through his involvement in trad supergroup The Gloaming. The result was This Is How We Fly, a group that bring a diverse range of skills and experiences together.

On clarinet and electronics, Seán Mac Erlaine arrived to the project with a background in jazz and free improvised music. Swedish drummer Petter Berndalen is an innovative percussionist with roots in folk music. Exuberant American percussive dancer Nic Gareiss blends improvisation with traditional footwork vocabulary.