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Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh :: performs four songs in a solo set from 'The Back Loft', a space for the arts near Thomas St, Dublin 2009
Contact :: mail@mylesoreilly.com junofallls@gmail.com
:: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh plays traditional and
contemporary folk music on fiddle, 5-string viola and
hardanger fiddle in small intimate listening venues.
As a traditional fiddler, he performs duos with dynamic
Kerry accordion player Brendan Begley and Dublin
uilleann piper Mick O'Brien. His Kitty Lie Over album
with O'Brien was described in the Irish Times as
"a niftier mood enhancer than any drug therapy".
In 2007, he released Where the One-Eyed Man is King,
an adventurous, self-produced little EP:
"It's like if you untangled an Irish session
and hung up the choicest bits each in front
of its own glowing christmas light and
viewed through 3D glasses made of
paper and cellophane"
says Uncle Earl's Kristin Andreassen.
He sometimes performs as part of Iarla Ó Lionáird's
Invisible Fields Ensemble, with whom he has also worked
on projects such as Idir and Liam Ó Muirthile's Sanas.
Caoimhín has recently been studying the work of
contemporary folk fiddlers from other countries, including
Nils Okland, Dan Trueman and Johan Hedin, and has been writing
new material that continues to explore that region where Irish
traditional music begins to disintegrate.
Icelandic band and Sigur Ros classical cohorts Amiina collaborate with Irish fiddle player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh for Ireland's Festival of World Cultures in July 2010...watch
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh collaborates with Amiina
The short film featuring Caoimhin O'Ragallaigh
Directed by Myles O'Reilly
