Dream team gather in The Gloaming

THE enigmatic Dublin-born fiddle player Caomhín Ó Raghallaigh has stirred the traditional scene, releasing five albums in 10 years, four of them collaborations with leading lights in Irish music.

Known for marrying old-school techniques with an experimental outlook, Ó Raghallaigh now brings his unique soundworld to The Gloaming.

The Gloaming’s upcoming series of concerts around the country are the realisation of a dream for two of Ireland’s foremost musicians, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Martin Hayes. The vocalist and fiddle-player have played regularly in the last five years in Europe and around the world, experiencing what they describe as a “kind of feeling” onstage together. Seeking to create a context where they could create that feeling with a group and sustain it, Ó Lionáird and Hayes met in New York in 2010 to hatch a plan.