Abair

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Dates

Thu 16 Mar

Fri 17 Mar

Sat 18 Mar

Times

Various

Locations

Palatine Room @ National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks

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Abair

ABAIR is an annual oral traditions programme which explores the Irish traditions of storytelling, song, and oral history and traces their links around the world.

Taking place as part of The St. Patrick’s Festival, the multi-format programme offers a wide array of concerts, pop-ups and storytelling sessions, that examine the relationship between the sung and spoken word in Ireland and abroad (the Irish word ‘Abair’ translates roughly as both ‘to say’ and ‘to sing’).

The 2023 programme, running from the 16th to the 18th of March in Collins Baracks, features a host of international collaborations such as: ‘The Donegal Tarantella’, an exploration of Southern Italian folk music and its links with Southwest Donegal, with Francesco Turrisi (ITA), Ronan Galvin (IRE), Anna Cinizia Villani (ITA) and Ellie Nic Fhionnghaile (IRE); ‘Yoik and Nyahh’, an event exploring the parallels in the history and culture of the Sami people of Northern Europe and the Irish Travelling community, with Ánde Somby (Samiland), John Connors (IRE) and Stephen Dunne (IRE); and ‘Ukraine & Ulster: Songs of Conflict’, a song-exploration of the recent and current unrest in Ukraine and the North of Ireland, with Olesya Zdorovetska (UKR) and Seán Mone (IRE). Also in the programme is a range of events for children and families including storytelling duo Candle Lit Tales and guerrilla performances from The Fingal Mummers; The Megaphone Project, a new pop-up street singing series; One Arm As Long As The Other a new storytelling and song collaboration from Hugh Cooney and Seán Fitzgerald; and much more.

Curated by traditional singer Macdara Yeates, ABAIR, now in its fifth year, is a staple feature in the annual St. Patrick’s Festival aimed at celebrating the rich oral culture of Ireland and examining its place in the world at large.

Is clár bliantúil traidisiúin bhéaloidis é ABAIR a fhiosraíonn traidisiúin na hÉireann maidir le scéalaíocht, amhrán agus stair bhéil agus a rianaíonn a gcuid nasc ar fud an domhain.

Mar chuid d'Fhéile Naomh Pádraig, cuirtear réimse leathan ceolchoirmeacha, pop-ups agus seisiúin scéalaíochta ar fáil a scrúdaíonn an gaol idir an focal canta agus an focal labhartha in Éirinn agus thar lear (aistríonn an focal Gaeilge ‘Abair’ go garbh mar ‘to say’ agus ’to sing').

Tá go leor comhshaothair idirnáisiúnta ar chlár 2023, a bheidh ar siúl ón 16 go dtí an 18 Márta i nDún Uí Choileáin, amhail: ‘The Donegal Tarantella', iniúchadh ar cheol tíre Dheisceart na hIodáile agus ar a naisc le Dún na nGall Thiar Theas, le Francesco Turrisi (an Iodáil), Ronan Galvin (Éire), Anna Cinizia Villani (an Iodáil) agus Ellie Nic Fhionnghaile (Éire); ‘Yoik and Nyahh', imeacht a dhéanann iniúchadh ar na gcosúlacht i stair agus i gcultúr mhuintir Sami ó Thuaisceart na hEorpa agus phobal Lucht Siúil na hÉireann, le hÁnde Somby (Samiland), John Connors (Éire) agus Stephen Dunne (Éire); agus ’Ulster and Ukraine: Songs of Conflict', iniúchadh ar cheol a bhaineann leis an gcorraíl sibhialta reatha agus a tharla le déanaí san Úcráin agus i dTuaisceart na hÉireann, le Olesya Zdorovetska (an Úcráin) agus Seán Mone (Éire). Sa chlár freisin tá raon imeachtaí do leanaí agus do theaghlaigh, lena n-áirítear an dísreach scéalaíochta, Candle Lit Tales, agus treall-léirithe ó The Fingal Mummers; The Megaphone Project, sraith amhránaíochta sráide pop-up nua; One Arm As Long agus The Other, comhshaothar nua scéalaíochta agus amhráin ó Hugh Cooney agus Seán Fitzgerald; agus go leor eile.

Á choimeád ag an amhránaí traidisiúnta Macdara Yeates, is gné lárnach é ABAIR, d'Fhéile Phádraig bhliantúil atá dírithe ar cheiliúradh a dhéanamh ar chultúr saibhir béil na hÉireann agus scrúdú a dhéanamh ar a háit sa domhan i gcoitinne.