The Unquiet: Pauline Scanlon and band @ Finding a Voice 2022

The Unquiet: Pauline Scanlon and band @ Finding a Voice 2022

Sunday, 6 March 2022, 4.00pm

Pauline Scanlon’s unique voice, described as “a superb mix of china cup fragility and steely strength” (Irish Times) comes from an ancient place yet is always fresh. Her music is both Irish and universal, traditional yet subversive at every turn. The ‘steely strength’ comes to the fore in both her activism and her determination to constantly evolve as an artist. 

As a founding member of FairPlé, the role of women in the arts is central to Pauline’s creative path and something she is very vocal about. Her new album, The Unquiet (March 2022), reimagines what it is to be an Irish woman in the context of music and song. It is an album that will shift expectations and defy genre.

About The Unquiet, Pauline says: ‘All my life as a singer, I have been drawn to old songs. In them I find a solidarity with the ghosts of people I have never met and yet share fragments of feelings with. This album is based on the life of my late mother, Eileen Scanlon and her contemporaries in Irish society. The songs have a resonance and a purpose in reflecting her lived experience and that of modern-era women in Ireland, through my perspective.’

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Finding a Voice 2022 is 8 concerts over 5 days in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary from Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 March 2022. Check out the individual concerts or treat yourself to a Day Pass or Festival Pass and hear some unforgettable music by remarkable women.

See full festival programme below and at www.findingavoice.ie.

Thursday 3rd March 2022
Evening concert - Lina Andonovska (flutes) & Michelle O’Rourke (voice)
Music for flutes and voice from two outstanding performers including the world première of a newly commissioned work for the duo by celebrated Irish composer Linda Buckley.
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Friday 4th March 2022
Lunchtime concert - Samantha Ege (piano)
Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Samantha Ege visits Ireland for the first time to give the Irish premières of piano music by Black American composers Florence Price and Margaret Bonds and Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová.
Tickets

Evening concert - Broadway Babes & West End Girls - David Hayes (musical director), Sinéad O’Donovan (voice), CSM Musical Theatre Ensemble
Music by Broadway legends including Jeanine Tessori (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek The Musical), Sara Bareilles (Waitress), Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde) and many more.
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Saturday 5th March 2022
Lunchtime concert - Darragh Morgan (violin) & Mary Dullea (piano)
Music for violin and piano from the nineteenth century to the present day, featuring works by Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger and Americans Ruth Crawford Seeger and Florence Price, as well as Irish composer Deirdre McKay.
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Evening concert - Cassiopeia Winds & Fiachra Garvey (piano)
Music by French and American composers including Grammy & Pulitzer Prize winning Jennifer Higdon and Louise Farrenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds, a monument of nineteenth-century chamber repertoire.
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Sunday 6th March 2022
Lunchtime concert - Amanda Feery & Megan Nolan: A Thing I Cannot Name
Screening of Irish composer Amanda Feery’s beautiful video opera A Thing I Cannot Name, commissioned by Irish National Opera.
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Afternoon concert - Pauline Scanlon and band
Singer-songwriter Pauline Scanlon brings her unique voice and emotionally charged material from her new album The Unquiet and more.
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Tuesday 8th March 2022 (International Women’s Day)
Lunchtime concert - Yonit Kosovske (piano), Julie Comparini (contralto), and Jessica Brown (poetry)
A closing recital that brings poetry to life, featuring music by Lili Boulanger and a newly commissioned song cycle by Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain.
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For more, visit www.findingavoice.ie.

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Published by Journal of Music on 15 February 2022

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