A Fool's Errand
A new work for narrator, three musicians and painter.
Commissioned by the Cairde Sligo Arts Festival and The Model: Home of the Niland Collection.
"In A Fool’s Errand, Dermot Healy’s masterful book-length poem, the sense that keens afterwards, and during, is the sense of hearing. Just thinking of the poem, not the words, just the sense of it, fills my inner ears with the geese’s uproar, with this rude, sonic turmoil in the sky" - Nick Roth
Alan Devine narrator
Emer Mayock flute, uilleann pipes
Nick Roth soprano saxophone, whistle
Donal Siggins bouzouki, mandolin, live electronics
Diarmuid Delargy live painting
The readers:
Bláithín Gallagher, Brian Leyden, Brian McDonagh, Caoimhe Gleeson, Carmel Jennings, Cathy Jordan, Conor McManus, Dallan Healy, David Cameron, Dessie McFadden, Diarmuid Delargy, Donal Conaty, Emer McGarry, Fintan Vallely, Fiona Meehan, Gary Keane, Gay McDonagh, Gregory Daly, Helen Gillard, Hugh McSweeney, Inor Healy, Isabel McCowen, John Callanan, Julianna Holland, Katie Delargy, Keith Hopper, Martin Enright, Mary Branley, Mary Caraway, Benjamin Dwyer, Mary Foran, Mary O'Malley, Michael Harding, Mick Coyle, Neil Jordan, Nick Miller, Noel Kilgallon, Noel Treanor, Orna McSweeney, Peter Fallon, Roddy Doyle, Rodney Lancashire, Scott Coombs, Seán Golden, Sean Hickey, Sheila McSweeney, Tara McGowan, Tom Morgan, Una Mannion.
This event will also be live streamed so you can join from the comfort of your home if you are not able to attend in person.
Funded by The Arts Council’s Music Commission Award 2021