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November 2012
Moya Brennan – The Voice of Clannad – with Family & Friends
Moya Brennan, a Grammy-Award winning musician, singer, and songwriter, will give a concert at the Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall at Princeton University on November 5 at 5:00 p.m. Brennan is the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning Irish band Clannad, known around the world for its blend of musical styles with traditional Irish music. “Moya Brennan – the Voice of Clannad –with Family and Friends,” is co-presented by the University’s Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central Series, the Index…
Find out more »April 2013
In Two Minds: Songs, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition
Len Graham and Brian Ó hAirt, two award-winning proponents of Irish traditional arts, will give a performance of “In Two Minds: Songs, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition,” on Friday, April 12, at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »October 2013
Irish Jazz Singer Christine Tobin
Jazz singer and composer Christine Tobin will give a performance of “Sailing to Byzantium,” her award-winning musical settings of poems by W.B. Yeats, on Friday, October 18, at 4:30 p.m. in the Frist Theatre at the Frist Campus Center. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »February 2014
Fran O’Rourke & John Feeley
On Friday, February 7, Fran O'Rourke and John Feeley will perform traditional Irish songs from the works of James Joyce at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street.
Find out more »April 2014
Black 47
This legendary Irish rock band has left a lasting legacy and they intend going out with a bang. Their final CD, Last Call, will be released in January.
Find out more »Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
Fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill will perform Irish traditional music on Friday, April 25, at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The performance is the final event in the 2013-14 series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The concert is free and open to the public.
Find out more »May 2015
Féile Na Bealtaine: Ghost Trio
On Friday, May 1, Ghost Trio, comprised of singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, fiddler Cleek Schrey, and uilleann piper Ivan Goff, will perform a Féile Na Bealtaine or “May festival” concert of Irish songs at 4:30 p.m. at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on the Princeton University campus. The concert, part of the Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University and co-sponsored by the Department of Music and Lewis Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.…
Find out more »October 2016
Performance by Award-Winning Musicians Brían Ó hAirt and Len Graham — “The Road Taken: Songs, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition”
Len Graham and Brían Ó hAirt, two award-winning musicians and proponents of Irish traditional arts, will present a performance entitled “The Road Taken: Songs, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition” on Friday, October 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on the Princeton University campus. Part of the 2016-17 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University, the event is free and open to the public. Taplin Auditorium is a different location than where Irish Studies…
Find out more »November 2016
Iarla Ó Lionáird and Donnacha Dennehy perform and discuss their recent collaboration on a new opera, Hunger
Belknap Teaching Fellow Iarla Ó Lionáird and Assistant Professor of Music Donnacha Dennehy, two faculty members at Princeton University, will discuss and perform excerpts of Dennehy’s new opera, Hunger, on Friday, November 18. The discussion and performance will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Part of the 2016-17 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University, this event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »September 2019
“The Making of The Hunger”
Donnacha M. Dennehy (composer) and Iarla Ó Lionáird (singer) discuss the creation of their new music-theater piece on the Famine in Ireland. Introduced by Lecturer in Theater Michael Cadden, the event is cosponsored by Princeton University's Department of Music. The Hunger premiered in 2016 starring O’Lionáird at BAM Next Wave Festival. It is based on diaries and personal accounts from the period of the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-52). A departure from conventions in which the ensemble is concealed in the…
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