Friday 17th January 2025
Location: The Seantí X91 X49Y Kilmacow
Nuala Kennedy & Eamon O’ Leary

‘Sumptous folk songs’ Folk Album of the Month, September 2024

The Guardian * * * *

‘Dazzling’ MOJO * * * *

‘Album of the Week’ RTE Radio1 Ireland

Following the hand of fate which guided them from a remote village in the Austrian Alps to a tiny island in Greece, long time musical collaborators Irish traditional singer – musician Nuala Kennedy (County Louth, Ireland) and Dubliner / New Yorker singer-songwriter Eamon O’ Leary have created an atmospheric new album of songs entitled ‘HYDRA’ (2024) featuring guest appearances by Will Oldham, Anais Mitchell, Cathal McConnell, Liz Knowles and Brian MacGloinn.

Hydra is an island where cars are prohibited and the main mode of transport is by donkey or by foot. Recorded in ‘The Old Carpet Factory’ an eighteenth century mansion whose large open windows overlook the Aegean sea, the album vibrates with the unhurried bohemian charm and luscious simplicity that made this place so attractive to past luminaries such as Henry Miller, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lawrence Durrell, Leonard Cohen and his love Marianne Ihlen…
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