https://www.rte.ie/player/series/nationwide/SI0000001172?epguid=IH10016303-26-0047
RTE Nationwide meets people in Dublin and Waterford (30 mins each) who share a deep passion for singing and who devote part of their spare time to rehearsing with their respective choirs.
Features the Guinness choir rehearsing Seán Doherty's commission "City of Our Dreaming", based on a poem by Paula Meehan.
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Marisa Anderson plays The Anthology Of UnAmerican Folk Music
The Cobblestone, North King St, Saturday, September 12 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
‘One of the best emotional mediums in the field of solo guitar, Anderson is a master of lovely melancholy.’ – Pitchfork
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Marisa Anderson
performing
The Anthology Of UnAmerican Folk Music
The Cobblestone
Saturday 12th September
Doors 8pm
Tickets €23 via https://billetto.ie/e/marisa-anderson-presents-the-anthology-of-unamerican-folk-music-tickets-1867771
About This Performance
Marisa will be touring her new album, called Volume 1. The record will be released May 2026 on Thrill Jockey as part of a larger multi-year release project connected to her ongoing work curation of what she calls the Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music. This curated collection draws from nearly one thousand songs sourced from the private record collection of Harry Smith, where she is focusing on music from regions where the United States has engaged in conflict since 1970, including Southeast Asia, the former USSR, and the Arabic and Islamic world. Very relevant at the moment! Marisa was awarded a residency through the Tulsa Artist Fellowship granting her access to an archive (of more than 1,200 records) from Smith’s personal collection, now owned by the University of Oklahoma and housed at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa. During the nine-day residency, Marisa focused on collecting recordings from countries connected to U.S. conflicts during her lifetime starting in 1970 - the year she was born. The record features deeply personal interpretations—composed, transcribed, and arranged—of music spanning from Afghanistan to Vietnam, via Yemen, Cambodia, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan. She will be performing this material live for the first time, alongside selections from her earlier catalog and new, unreleased work
About Marisa Anderson
Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, and NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone, NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Anderson is the recipient of the 2025 Spark Award for Oregon Artists presented by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation.
In addition to her solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer. Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White was released May 2024 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also saw the release of the feature film score ‘ A Perfect Day For Caribou’, as well as appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big|Brave. In addition to multiple solo releases, past projects include 2021’s Lost Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux, among others.
Classically trained, Anderson honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. Her current work is focused on a mid-20th century archive of recorded music from the Islamic world, Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union.
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Širom (Slovenia)
Arthur's Blues & Jazz, Thursday, September 17 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Širom
with special guests tba
Thursday 17th September
Arthur’s Blues & Jazz
Tickets via https://billetto.ie/e/sirom-slovenia-tickets-1892720
“Be brave and embrace this uneasy, intense album for the ages” – The Guardian (Folk Album Of The Month)
“Širom aren’t just drawing on the past as a way to look to the future, or using techniques employed in electronic music, or constructing playful narratives, or documenting the latest results of their improvisations, they’re doing all these things simultaneously” – The Quietus
The intertwining of diverse musical approaches and tools, histories of sounds and unbridled musical imagination and craftmanship is the expansive guiding principle of the Širom trio, whose members stem from the regions of Prekmurje, Tolminsko and Kras.
More than a dozen instruments can be found in the repertoire of Iztok Koren, Samo Kutin and Ana Kravanja and at least as many given musical forms that can be perceived as an inspiration behind the character of this new ensemble. However, in their practice as well as experiencing they remain anchored in their creative process to an extent that allows them to avoid merely reflecting existing patterns. What this generates in an original, stylistically homogeneous form of expression that oscillates between a wide array of folk sounds and contemporary acoustic rock-style meditations. The end result is grounded yet still mystical minimalism. Širom's music is contemplative, but can get harder when necessary, it is closer to being band- than chamber-like, to being street as opposed to urban in nature.
Each member of Širom also performs in a myriad of other bands and music projects, such as ŠKM banda, Hexenbrutal, Najoua, Samo Gromofon, and Horda grdih.
For You, This Eve, the Wolves Will Be Enchantingly Forsaken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIrJi8fUK9Q
Curls Upon the Neck, Ribs Upon the Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KTMpm9DlV0
Rattling Ark launch 'Top Of A Mountain'
Bello Bar, Friday, June 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Rattling Ark
launching their debut album
Top Of A Mountain
Bello Bar
Friday 19th June
Doors 8pm
Tickets €22 + booking via https://billetto.ie/e/rattling-ark-top-of-a-mountain-album-launch-tickets-1900940
Rattling Ark release their debut album entitled Top of a Mountain on the 19th of June 2026. The Irish alternative trad/folk outfit was established by acclaimed cello player Kevin Murphy who has long been associated with experimental folk music in Ireland and internationally. A founding member of Slow Moving Clouds Kevin has collaborated with celebrated folk legends such as Iarla O Lionáird, John Spillane, Cathy Jordan, Úna Monaghan and Ger Wolfe while he has also worked with international artists such as The National, Bon Iver, Jenny Lewis, Lisa Hannigan, Rick Danko and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. On Top of a Mountain he is joined by Thomas Haugh on Zithers, Percussion and Electronics and Lizzi Murtough on vocals. Aki from Slow Moving Clouds is also a guest musician playing Nickleharp and Violyra.
Although the cello is not an instrument generally associated with traditional music it occupies a central place here. Kevin plays Jigs, reels, and polkas while the cellos also form a lush bed for Irish and Scottish folk songs sung by Kevin and Lizzi. Thomas’s sound palette of zithers, electronics and percussion connect the earthly with the otherworldly. The approach taken by Rattling Ark draws comparisons with Pentangle, Haxan Cloak, and The Gloaming. Top of a Mountain is launched at the Belo Bar in Dublin on the 19th of June 2026 as part of a nation wide tour.
https://flypost.ie/event/rattling-ark-launch-top-of-a-mountain
Crying Loser + Onion Boys
Bello Bar, Saturday, June 13 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Crying Loser
with special guest
Onion Boys
Bello Bar
Saturday 13th June
Doors 8pm
Tickets €16.50 + Booking via https://billetto.ie/e/crying-loser-tickets-1892620
A nah-wave quartet, Crying Loser released their first EP, Oaf Milk in September 2023, with a vinyl release by Swish Swash Records following in 2024. Following two successful tours across France and multiple shows all over Ireland & UK, Crying Loser’s upcoming full length album The Ick, pushes the limits of the groups’s chaotic and feverish compositions.
After several features on BBC6 Music from Deb Grant, Amy Lamé and Nathan Shepherd, Isn’t it Better than Staying in Bed slows the pace down with a sluggish and delirious trip through the everyday mundane, all building to a restless and wild clarinet solo.
Their debut album is dropping on April 24th with Trapped Animal Records’ new imprint, We Go to 11. Aside from signing with Trapped Animal, Crying Loser have recently been signed to Wipe Out Music’ roster by Matt Baty of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs for publishing & distribution.
Isn't it Better than Staying in Bed : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHNJAMbfWdQ
Friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aUE3S8eyuE
Onion Boys
Rockin’ and reelin’ till the death Onions Boys have carved out a place within Dublin’s craic rockin’ freak circles and beyond cementing themselves as powerhouse live performers becoming more unhinged and chaotic over the years. With an ever changing cast of members each show is never the same, Expect heavy jams, loose classics and a lovely dose of fuzzed up garage craic.
Rock Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heb9ZUZfCDo
Tashi Dorji
Whelan's Upstairs, Wednesday, June 3 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Tashi Dorji
(Bhutan/US) (Drag City)
with special guest tba
Upstairs @ Whelan’s
Weds 3rd June
Doors 8pm
Tickets via https://billetto.ie/e/tash-dorji-tickets-1892616 & Whelan’s Box Office
Last seen on these shores supporting Godspeed You Black Emperor! At the National Stadium in Dublin, Tashi Dorji is a Bhutanese-born, Asheville-based experimental guitarist whose fiercely intuitive improvisations have carved out a unique space in the contemporary avant-garde. His expansive discography includes deeply felt solo works like Stateless (2020) and we will be wherever the fires are lit (2024), and his forthcoming electric album low clouds hang, this land is on fire (2026) on Drag City. Dorji is one half of Manas, the dynamic duo with drummer Thom Nguyen, and a founding member of the free jazz trio KUZU, alongside saxophonist Dave Rempis and drummer Tyler Damon. His collaborators span a wide spectrum: from Mette Rasmussen, Susie Ibarra, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Alex Zhang Hungtai, John Dieterich, Audrey Chen and Joe McPhee to more recent partnerships with Tony Buck, Terrie Ex, Andy Moor, bassist John Edwards, and drummer Steve Noble. Across his solo and group projects, Dorji’s playing, rooted in alternate tunings, prepared guitar, and spontaneous gesture, articulates an aesthetic of resistance, deep listening, and collective transformation.
Burn The Throne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fSrB0smVL0
Begin From Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5DljwZoB6U
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