THE WILD, weird, mind altering Irish trad and world music band Kíla make a welcome return to Galway to play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday November 13.
Bono once described the music of Kíla - Rossa, Colm, and Rónán Ó Snodaigh, Dee Armstrong, Eoin Dillon, and Brian and Lance Hogan - as coming from “a timeless place”.
It’s not only the time that’s hard to locate when trying to place Kíla’s music, it’s also trying to pinpoint the location of the music itself. Make no mistake, Kíla’s music is grounded and rooted in Irish trad - it’s just that it might be Irish trad as played on the Mars delta!
Galway is also something of a second home to the band. As Lance Hogan once told me: “We’ve always got a good reaction any time we’ve played Galway. Many people have even thought we were a Galway band! Dee Armstrong [Kíla fiddle player] lived here for many years.”
Tickets are €20 and available from Kelly’s and Zhivago.
