From October 23 to November 15, four of Ireland’s top traditional artists will be performing in seven different venues across the UK and Ireland as part of the Irish Traditional Music Archive’s annual Drawing from the Well Concert Tour.
Legendary tin whistle player Mary Bergin, accordion player and singer Conor Connolly, dancer and fiddle player Caoimhe Ní Mhaolagáin and multi-instrumentalist John Blake will be joined by special guests for each night of the tour from each locality.
The second stop of the tour will be bringing the group to Galway with a concert at Amharclann Chois Fharraige, Inverin, on November 1.
This year marks the first time that the acclaimed tour will have a show outside of Ireland.
The tour will be visiting: St John’s Theatre, Listowel, Co. Kerry, October 23; Amharclann Chois Fharraige, Connemara, Co. Galway, November 1; Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, November 2; The Sugar Club, Dublin, November 5; Duncairn Theatre, Belfast, November 8; London Irish Centre, November 13; and Belltable Theatre, Limerick, November 15.
The November 13 show in London marks the first time that a tour performance will travel outside of Ireland and marks the launch of a formal partnership between ITMA and the London Irish Centre.
Founded in 1987, the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) is home to the largest, most comprehensive collection of Irish traditional music, song, and dance in the world.
The ITMA digitises, preserves and offers free universal access to valuable recordings, photographs, manuscripts, and other archived materials that would otherwise be lost.
In doing this, ITMA also connects contemporary artists with archived materials in order to inspire new art, helping to build the living archive of the future.
