Séamus Creagh Retrospective

Séamus Creagh Retrospective

Friday, 23 March 2018, 8.30pm

While Seamus Creagh was one of the finest exponents of Sliabh Luachtra music, he was actually born in County Westmeath! After a spell in Dublin during the folk revival scene, he moved to Cork and spent many years living in Baile Mhúirne/Cúil Aodha, where he immersed himself in the strong singing tradition of the area. This greatly influenced his own singing style and indeed his slow air playing on the fiddle. He also picked up the polka and slide virus while he was there and played most notably with Jackie Daly, among many other fine musicians living in the Cúil Aodh area, such as Hammy Hamilton.
There have been many tribute concerts and festivals held in honour of Seámus Creagh, who sadly passed away in March 2009. But this will be the first retrospective event in his honour, in a place that impacted very much on his music and on his singing style. The evening will take the format of archival film screenings of Seámus performing over the years and local singers and musicians, relating the many anecdotes and sessions they had with Séamus during his time spent in the Múscraí Gaeltacht. Hammy Hamilton will chair the event and musicians and singers performing on the evening will be Danny Maidchí Ó Súílleabháin; 4 Star Trio – Con Ó Drisceoil, Johnny McCarthy, Pat Ahern; Jackie Daly & Geraldine O’Callaghan and of course Hammy Hamilton!

Preceding the concert, there will be a photographic exhibition at 7:30pm of the late Seámus Creagh, complied by his widow, Marie-Annick Desplanques. "I will have left a legacy." he said to her not long before he died in March 2009. The legacy is here indeed, in the memories and the memorial concerts and festivals to celebrate the music he played and left to all through the recordings, the passing on of his musicianship, the sharing at sessions, for dancers, in concerts, at parties, funerals and weddings. Music was Seamus's life.
“ These photographs, I took over a period of 20 years. They tell part of a rich story of tunes, concerts, sessions and beautiful memories of sounds and good times in the spirit that Seamus had and left us all”. Marie-Annick Desplanques, 2017.

The exhibition will be opened by Hammy Hamilton, flute maker, musician, scholar, singer.

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Séamus Creagh plays two polkas, 1991

Published by Ionad Cultúrtha on 14 March 2018

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