Sorcha de Róiste
sean-nós // experimental
‘A voice like a blue spark’
Thomas McCarthy, Irish Traveller Singer & TG4 Amhránaí na Bliana/ TG4 Singer of the Year
Award-winning sean-nós singer also working in experimental composition
Delighted to be among several Irish folk and new music artists selected by composer Linda Buckley for a Contemporary Music Centre Ireland playlist.
This is a piece I composed for the launch of an experimental archeology project, a project in partnership with University College Cork. The piece is a setting of a short poetic text, in Old Irish (6th or 9th century, we are not sure), about the sea.
The boat is a reconstruction of an Iron Age boat which was discovered with other prehistoric boats in 2014 at the bottom of Lough Corrib, Galway, making national and international news. More info on the project at: https://www.facebook.com/Pallasboy2015
I’ve been working away on finishing a setting of a text in Irish and an electronic piece, both which are for an experimental archeology project. The launch will be later in the Summer in Galway. Really enjoyable project. More on this soon!
27 Oct 2024 Live at Saint Luke’s, with Eoin Stan O’Sullivan
3 Sep 2024 Crosstown Drift, Garnish Island (The Good Room),West Cork
20 Feb 2024 Guest Singer, The Gab Storytelling Collective, Callanan’s Bar, Cork
21 Oct 2023 ‘Circling the Square’, Poetry Festival, Thurles
5 Oct 2019 Cork Folk Festival, The Goldie Chapel, with Eoin Stan O Sullivan
14 Sep 2020 Culture Night, Scully Fest, Newmarket, Co. Cork
21 Aug 2019 Fota House, supporting Róisín Elsafty
22 Aug 2019 Heritage Week, Cork City
2O Sep 2019 Culture Night, Cork City
27 Sep 2019 Drimoleague Singing Festival, West Cork with Thomas McCarthy
10 Aug 2019 Scully Fest, Newmarket, Co. Cork
24 May 2019 Old Butter Roads Festival, Watergrasshill
18 May 2019 World Fiddle Day Scartaglin, Co. Kerry
10 Feb 2019 Cork Singers’ Club, An Spailpín Fánach, Cork City