Saturday 17 August, 2.00pm & 5.00pm  |  Barbican Centre  |  Tickets: €15 / Child: €7.50 / €40 (Family of 4)

Over 14’s only, under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult over 18 – ID will be requested.

Compánach is a unique, fast-moving, cross-media concert of Irish traditional music, song and dance, and using photography and historic pictures to tell the music’s story from past to present. It brings together tunes from all counties of Ireland, and is performed by Dundalk fiddler Gerry O’Connor, Monaghan uilleann piper Tiarnán Ó Duinnchínn, Armagh flute-player Fintan Vallely, Dublin sean-nós step dancer Caoimhe Ní Mhaolagáin, and Dublin sean-nós singer Róisín Chambers, with the additional narrative power of superb, big-screen images.  Its theme is music and place and has been developed and directed by Fintan Vallely, expanding from Compánach, the encyclopaedia Companion to Irish Traditional Music of which he is editor.