It’s our 3rd birthday!!! Come along and help us celebrate 3 years of amazing music and literature by listening to some more amazing music and readings! It’s going to be a fantastic and memorable night!

Doors 7.30pm with music at 8pm sharp. €10/8 concession.
BYOB or make your own tea!

Ergodos Musicians: songs arranged for voice, reeds and cello
Laura Hyland: songs, poems and improvisations
Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde: short stories and song
The Kimberlite Pipes: folk songs and tunes for guitar, fiddle, melodica and voices

The Ergodos Musicians ‘Songs’ project is a celebration of the song, the most constant of musical forms. Composers Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly have arranged, re-composed, weaved and stitched material drawn from the songs they love, spanning over 800 years of music, from John Dowland and Vivaldi to Steve Earle, Richard Thompson and The xx. Working closely with vocalist Michelle O’Rourke, reed player Seán Mac Erlaine and cellist Kate Ellis, they celebrate the way a melody or a lyric can live in memory, heart and limb – turning, dissolving and re-forming, but never vanishing. ergodos.ie

Laura Hyland writes songs, poems and music. She is best known as songwriter for her group, Clang Sayne, and co-curator of Listen at Lilliput. Here she presents new work inspired by her return to rural life over the past year; firstly to the Wicklow mountains in early Spring, and eventually to her homeplace on the south coast of Wexford earlier this summer. Some are songs some are poems, some are improvised, some composed, some performed solo, and others accompanied by Lilliput co-curator, Judith Ring, and reed player, Sean Mac Erlaine. soundcloud.com/laurahyland

Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde is a Donegal writer who starred in the award winning film Silence, which he co-wrote with director Pat Collins and Sharon Whooley. He received the Micheal Dwyer Discovery Award for his role and the film received international acclaim including Best Film at the New York Irish Film Festival in 2013. Since 2008 his company, Éabhlóid, has been publishing books and producing documentaries in Irish. The music documentary, John Doherty – Ar Leirg na Gaoithe, which Eoghan directed, was awarded the Bronze Torc at the Celtic Media Festival in 2013 for Best Arts Documentary. Eoghan is currently working on his third collection of short stories. eabhloid.com

The Kimberlite Pipes are Dublin natives Emmet Mc Gowan (vocals, guitar) and Judith Ring (vocals, melodica) and Vermonter Naomi Morse (vocals, fiddle). Originally formed in Berlin in 2004, they performed extensively in York, England in the following years. Now separated by the Atlantic, the trio reunites to present their sweet acoustic sound and fine vocal harmonies, taking their cues from folk, country, old time and traditional songs and tunes.

The Lilliput Press was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell in County Westmeath. Jonathan Swift spent his summers in a house nearby, and derived the name Lilliput from a local townland. The office was moved to its present locale in Arbour Hill, north Dublin, in 1989. Some 400 titles have appeared under its imprint; these encompass art and architecture, autobiography and memoir, biography and history, ecology and environmentalism, essays and literary criticism, philosophy, current affairs and popular culture, fiction, drama and poetry, all broadly focused on Irish themes. lilliputpress.ie