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Lighthouse Constellations hosted by Ye Vagabonds

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Collaboration and shared experiences are at the heart of Sounds From a Safe Harbour. This year, with the help of Quiet Lights, SFSH has invited the Irish folk music duo Ye Vagabonds to interact and respond to the residency and host the festival finale Lighthouse Constellations, Ye Vagabonds with special guests from the SFSH/37d03d residency.

Ye Vagabonds are brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn. They grew up in rural Carlow but moved to Dublin in 2012 and became known on the traditional Irish, blues and folk scenes in the city, playing folk songs as well as their own original material. Their blend of harmonic folk music is influenced by traditional Irish and European music, American old time, and the music of the 1960s folk revival.

Wilco

Sounds From a Safe Harbour presents Wilco.

Following last year’s release of their latest album Cruel Country and a Deluxe Edition of their legendary 2002 masterpiece Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Chicago’s Wilco will join us for their first ever show in Cork.

Support on the night comes from one of Ireland’s finest singer-songwriter’s, Anna Mieke.

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Bonny Light Horseman with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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Sounds From a Safe Harbour presents Bonny Light Horseman with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

The timeless qualities of traditional tunes can carry us across oceans and eons, linking us not only to the past but to each other as well. It was under the banner of those eternal connections that the trio of Bonny Light Horseman came together. Comprised of Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman— mixing the ancient, mystical medium of transatlantic traditional folk music with a contemporary, collective brush. The resulting album, Bonny Light Horseman, is an elusive kind of sonic event: a bottled blend of lightning and synergy that will excite fans of multiple genres, eras, and ages.

Bonny Light Horseman with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra will see the European premiere of these songs brought to new life again – conducted by Robert Ames, with orchestral arrangements by Bryce Dessner.

Feist

Multitudes affirms Feist’s ability to construct elaborate sonic worlds by following her singular song writing to its most poetic yet unbridled expression – it is a boundary-pushing collaboration conceived by Feist and Robbie Lackritz and developed with artist/filmmaker Colby Richardson, artist Heather Goodchild and Artistic Producer Mary Hickson.

Multitudes live show emerged in part from a certain dismantling of egoic pride that occurred in the aftermath of deeply transformative events in her personal life, with Feist noting that through birth and death; “There’s an arrival of a new sense of time as finite, time as precious, time as how are we going to spend it with one another?”

While that dismantling led to the many moments of painful realisation threading throughout her new album, Leslie’s latest body of work ultimately radiates an ineffable hope – an element encapsulated in the radical empathy and optimism of Multitudes’ closing lines; from the exquisitely tender ‘Song For Sad Friends’.

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