Earrach - featuring Stephen Rea

As St Brigid’s Day marks the first stirrings of spring, Cruit Éireann | Harp Ireland presents Earrach, First Light: an evening of harp music and poetry, featuring the award-winning actor Stephen Rea and some of Ireland’s most renowned harpers and musicians.

Oscar-nominated Stephen Rea, is joined by TG4 Gradam Ceoil recipient Michelle Mulcahy and Belfast award-winning composer, uilleann piper and cellist Neil Martin.

The evening opens with harper Tríona Marshall, celebrated for the expressive depth and radiant tone of her playing,  combining traditional airs, contemporary Irish compositions and her own arrangements. 

Four of Ireland’s leading harpers come together as a quartet: Aisling Lyons, Aisling Ennis, Gráinne Meyer and Cormac De Barra, performing Bill Whelan’s Cláirseacha Shuibhne commissioned for Féile na Tána.

Harpers’ tunes, new compositions and the spoken word interweave to welcome the light of a new season symbolising the ancient tradition of the harper and reciter, accompanied by cello.