Name: Scoil na gCláirseach
Start: 2024-07-26T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-08-01T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Coláiste Pobail Osraí

Join participants from Ireland—and all around the world—to celebrate the 22nd Scoil na gCláirseach–Festival of Early Irish Harp. Historical Harp Society of Ireland invite you to rediscover the music and traditions of Gaeldom's exquisite, ancient harp, guided by world experts in the field!

N.B. HHSI warmly welcome players of ALL kinds of harps to attend our festival

Your immersion in this festival is designed to give you the skills to bring your own performances of historical Gaelic harp music gloriously alive as you might never have imagined before. If you are interested in seeing authentic, historical sources, and learning how to use these to turn old paper and ink into living, breathing music, then this festival will interest you: we go an inch wide, and a mile deep. If you are curious of mind as well as curious of finger, then this might be for you!

Find the full festival programme and ticketing information here.

SUNDAY 28TH JULY, 8:00 pm
MASTERS OF IRISH MUSIC
Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde, voice
Siobhán Armstrong, early Irish harp

Martin Tourish, accordionA one-off gathering of three of Ireland’s leading performers of evocative, soulful Irish music. Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde, the prize-winning sean-nós [‘old style’] singer, will perform with Siobhán Armstrong, Ireland’s foremost performer on the ancient Irish, brass-wire-strung harp. Musician and composer, Martin Tourish, [Young Musician of the Year, 2008], makes a rare Kilkenny appearance also, in an evening of solo singing and harpers’ songs from the ancient Irish harping tradition, together with lively instrumental music. Presented in the 1000-year-old Parade Tower of Kilkenny
Castle.

Tickets avaialble here.

Free Teatime Concerts

FRIDAY 26th JULY, 6:45–7:15 pm
James Ruff, early Irish harp

SATURDAY 27th JULY, 6:45–7:15 pm
Eibhlís Ní Ríordáin, voice and early Irish harp

MONDAY 29th JULY, 6:45–7:15 pm
Paul Dooley, early Irish harp

Hear the ancient sound of the old Irish harp, played by master performers, in intimate
'teatime' concerts at Coláiste Pobail Osraí secondary school, 6-7 Ormonde Rd, Kilkenny.
FREE ADMISSION