• IRELAND TOUR • JULY 2022 •
Introducing Trílangue
Montréal–based ensemble celebrating the traditions of Québéc, Ireland and Scotland
featuring Martine Billette (Québecoise pianist and dancer), Dr Gearóid ÓhAllmhuráin (concertinas) and Dr Kate Bevan-Baker (fiddle and songs)
DUBLIN LAUNCH PARTY | WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE
Séamus Ennis Arts Centre (Dublin)
An amazing cultural evening of Irish & Québécois music, song, dancing, and dining featuring Trílangue with master Irish musicians: John Murphy, Éilís Ní Mhurchú, Antóin Mac Gabhann & Bernadette Nic Gabhann
2022 SUMMER CONCERT & FILM SCHEDULE
Select performances will also feature a screening of Gearóid’s documentary Lost Children of the Carricks (2021, Celtic Crossings Productions, 55 minutes). WATCH trailer
- 29–June – Wednesday | Concert | Séamus Ennis Arts Centre Dublin
- 30–June – Thursday | Concert and Film Screening | Coach House Hotel | Ballymote, Sligo | Get tickets * Sponsored by the County Sligo Famine Commemoration Committee
- 01–July – Friday | Concert and Film Screening | Ballyvourney Cultural Centre | Ballyvourney, West Cork
- 02–10 July – All Week | Concerts, Film Screening and workshops, Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy 2022, Co Clare
- 10-July Sunday | Concert and Film Screening | Galway Station House Theatre, Clifden, Galway
MARTINE BILLETTE
A composer, dancer and pianist from a prominent Québécois musical family, Martine Billette has been at the cutting edge of traditional music in Canada since the 1990s. One of the most respected professional Quebec dancers, Martine performed for years with Montreal trio, Rapetipetam; Pierre Chartrand, Marie-Soleil Pilette, Gilles Roy and The Stepping Ambassadors.
Over her career, Martine has toured the USA, Canada, England, Japan and France with French Canadian masters including Andre Brunet, Ménage à Trois, Manigance and The Pierre Schryer Band, all representing the rich traditional music that Canada has to offer.
KATE BEVAN-BAKER, PhD
Multi-talented Newfoundland-born Kate Bevan-Baker is a recognized fiddler, classical violinist and singer who thrives on a variety of musical styles from Celtic to jazz and classical.
Her music has taken her to Russia, across Canada twice with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, to China for the 2010 World Expo representing Canada, the Canadian JUNO Awards performing with Michael Bublé, as well as playing with symphony orchestras and chamber groups across Canada. Kate lives in Montreal where she teaches in School of Irish Studies at Concordia University and balances an active performance and teaching schedule.
GEARÓID Ó hALLMHURÁIN, PhD
Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin is a fifth-generation concertina player and an uilleann piper from County Clare, Ireland’s ‘mecca’ of traditional music. A former member of the world famous Kilfenora Céilí Band, he has performed over 1,000 concerts on four continents.
In his spare time, filmmaker, author, cultural historian Dr ÓhAllmhuráin is the Principal of the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, the largest program of Irish studies in North America, with over 1,000 students.
A multi-All Ireland musician, Gearóid is the writer / director of the film Lost Children of the Carricks (© 2020, Celtic Crossings Productions) and the author of Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape (2016, Oxford University Press)
Meet Gearóid and Kate (with Birds on a Wire String Quartet) on YouTube
