The Listen at Lilliput music series, which is held in the premises of the Lilliput Press in Stoneybatter, Dublin, is celebrating its first birthday with an event on Sunday, 27 January.

Held in the publishers’ reading room, the series prides itself on presenting intimate music performances by a mixed bill of musicians — five such events have taken place in the last year, and the series will now run on the last Sunday of every second month.

The January event includes yodeling and fiddle playing from Claudia Schawb. Schawb, an Austrian living in Ireland since 2005, was recently awarded a World Music Travel Scholarship from UCC, which she used to visit North East India to study Hindustani violin playing. She also tours with the Irish bands Ants on Glass and Tucan.

Joining her on the bill will be Olesya Zdorovetska, who will perform Ukranian folk songs as well as vocal improvisations. Zdorovetska’s recent work includes explorations of traditional music from her native Ukraine, investigations of Spanish poetry from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and music based on the work of Samuel Beckett. She also sings with the Salsa band ‘Dislocados’ and the electro-acoustic chamber ensemble, Sefiroth Ensemble.

The musician, composer, producer and educator Nick Roth — associated with Yurodny, Tarab, ReDiviDeR and Diatribe Records, among many other projects — is more usually heard as a saxophonist, but will be performing piano improvisations at the Lilliput event. His playing will accompany readings by the publisher Antony Farrell, who founded the Lilliput Press in 1984.

To close the event, Roth (now on saxophone) and Zdorovetska will be joined by the trombonist Colm O’Hara.

Tickets are €8 and a BYOB policy in operation. There will also be a 25% discount on books from the Lilliput Press purchased at the venue.

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