Aoife Ní Bhriain - Secret Music Series

Aoife Ní Bhriain performs in The Black Abbey as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival Secret Music Series 2021.
Fiddle player Aoife Ni Bhriain combines the richness of a family heritage of traditional music and a lifetime of classical music training. Born in Dublin she began studying the violin at an early age winning numerous national and international competitions for both classical and traditional Irish music. She graduated with first class honours from the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Leipzig in 2018 and plays on a violin by J.B. Vuillaume on generous loan.
Her unique musical pedigree has led her to experiment, collaborate and perform across many musical genres with artists such as pianist Eliso Virsaladze, fiddle player Martin Hayes, jazz guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, actor Tim Robbins, and the avant garde string quintet Wooden Elephant.
With her father uilleann piper Mick O’ Brien and flute player Emer Mayock she has recorded two albums of tunes sourced from the Canon Goodman Collection, melodies collected in the southwest of Ireland in the 19th century: Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts (2012) and More Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts (2021). The Trio were awarded a TG4 Gradam Ceoil Award in 2014.
Aoife joins us from The Black Abbey for this year's Secret Music series, playing a stunning set in an iconic Kilkenny space that amplifies the beauty of her sound and style.

[@tomgreene1843]

Well done ...one can play traditional and classical music! She pushes the boundaries well .

[@stanlaurel9802]

I've been listening your CD with Kathrin Finch continuously for a few days. A masterpiece, much more of it.

[@marianlynch4829]

Soooo Brilliant!

[@grahamhall2662]

Don't know about concert hall you looked to be be in your element in this Abbey. Loved the Enescu not heard that before. Those harmonics are really hard and you made a fab job of them. What is your violin?

[@eddiebrophy1430]

My Mammy came from Kilkenny!😃 That is some piece of work Aoife, marvellous!. So where are we going with all this? Not you, contemporary / traditional music generally? You can buy me a pint and educate me when we eventually meet! These days I identify as a banjo player, my cheap banjo disagrees...so confusing!

[@galwaytribesman9289]

What in the name of God is this one about it didn't sink of the coast of Clare it sank in Galway it set sail from Annaghdown into Galway city. Wrong info

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[@mjw12345]

Take care of these hemorrhoids!

[@galwaytribesman9289]

@@mjw12345 Is that what your papa says to you?

[@mjw12345]

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@@mjw12345 You don't say. I'd say the one and only brain cell you have has expired coming out with that statement. Keep trying.