Swedish band Quilty will play a special concert with Irish trad legend Andy Irvine at the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday, November 11, from 8pm.
Quilty is a highly renowned interpreter of traditional Irish music and is considered the foremost band on the Irish folk music scene in Scandinavia.
The band was formed in 1993 and has, over the last three decades, performed a huge number of concerts in Sweden, Germany and Norway, collaborating on projects with choirs and symphony orchestras.
Now Quilty has joined together with the legendary Irish musician Andy Irvine, formerly of Planxty, Patrick Street, and more, to form an Hiberno-Swedish collaboration, playing top Irish music and song with a hint of traditional, Scandi music.
In 2018, Quilty celebrated its 25th anniversary with an extensive tour of Sweden and Germany, inviting the audience to a nostalgic journey along their musical memory lane. The set list for the anniversary was formed after an enthusiastic response to a Facebook campaign where the audience voted on their favourite songs.
Since 2020, Quilty has been touring with the programme Out on the Ocean – sea shanties, emigration songs, love ballads and songs about epic adventures at sea in a salty and tar-scented concert program combining Irish and Scottish songs with the Atlantic Ocean as a backdrop.
Andy Irvine is one of the great Irish singers, his voice one of a handful of truly great ones that gets to the very soul of Ireland. He has been hailed as "a tradition in himself."
Musician, singer and songwriter, Irvine has maintained his highly individual performing skills throughout his over 55-year career. From Sweeney’s Men in the mid-60s, to the enormous success of Planxty in the 1970s, his duo with Paul Brady in the late 70s and then from Patrick Street to Mozaik, LAPD and Usher’s Island, Irvine has been a world music pioneer, and an icon for traditional music and musicians.
As a soloist, Irvine fills the role of the archetypal troubadour with a show and a travelling lifestyle that reflects his lifelong influence, Woody Guthrie. To quote The Irish Times, "Often copied, never equalled", his repertoire consists of Irish traditional songs, dexterous Balkan dances and a compelling canon of his own self-penned songs.
Tickets €32 from www.THT.ie
