A night of traditional Irish music with Ryan Molloy and Fergal Scahill.

Ryan Molloy’s compositional and performance work sits at the boundary of contemporary classical music and traditional Irish music and is internationally recognised for its cross genre innovation, musicality, and deep-rooted exploration of place and time, as well as its breadth in working with a range of musicians from young amateurs to seasoned professionals. Ryan’s has written over fifty works and his music has been performed to audiences on four continents for over fifteen years. His music has been broadcast both nationally and internationally, including BBC Radio 2, 3 & Radio Ulster, RTÉ Lyric FM, Radio 1 and Ráidió na Gaeltachta as well as on BBC 2, UTV, TG4 and BBC World. Ryan has been commissioned by both RTÉ and the BBC, as well as a range of renowned performers such as Darragh Morgan, Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble & the Irish Chamber Orchestra. He has represented Ireland at the prestigious ISCM New Music Days in Hong Kong (2015), Vancouver (2017) and Auckland (2022, rescheduled from 2020).

Multi-instrumentalist Fergal Scahill is best know as the fiddle player in award winning band We Banjo 3, recipients of the RTÉ Folk Awards Album of the Year 2018, Irish Times Album of the year in 2012 and two No. 1 albums on the Billboard bluegrass charts in the USA.His career has spanned over 20 years, winning All-Ireland titles at the Fleadh Cheoil on multiple instruments and group competitions, including the Senior All Ireland Fiddle competition. Most recently, Fergal has gained international recognition for his Fiddle Tune A Day on social media, sharing over 730 tunes with hundreds of collaborations and tens of millions of views.