Projects
Music without borders — collaboration, community and the belief that melody carries where race, language and creed cannot.
01 · Comhoibriú / Collaboration
Tírdhreacha & Fuaimdhreacha
Landscapes & Soundscapes · 2021
Throughout 2021 I journeyed through the four seasons and four provinces of Ireland with four incredible collaborations — Susan O'Neill, Brídín, Steve Cooney with Tommy Sands, and Liam Ó Maonlaí.
Spending up to a week with each musician in the remote nooks and crannies of our island, we navigated uncharted territory where Irish and English, Traditional, Folk and Contemporary music meet — creating four boundary-breaking macaronic songs. The year-long project became an EP with handcrafted prints and a lyric booklet; our short documentary premiered at the Irish Arts Center, NYC, in March 2022.
02 · Pobal / Community
Misneach
Kabin Studio, Cork City · 2022
A huge part of my day-to-day musical life is community music. I loved working with Kabin Studio in Cork City on their Misneach project — all about female empowerment, encouraging young women to be themselves while educating and raising awareness of the many challenges they face.
03 · Solidarity
Lajee Center
Aida Refugee Camp, Palestine · 2022
I was fortunate to visit the Lajee Center in the Aida Refugee Camp, through my good friend Ainle Ó Cairealláin, who has opened a community gym — Aclaí — in the center. Both he and the Lajee Center do trojan work, and I loved sharing the space and music with the students there.
The beauty and power of music, for me, is its lack of borders — race, language and creed don't matter, and that is such a special thing. I'd encourage anyone reading this to support the Lajee Center and Ainle's work. Thank you for welcoming me; I look forward to returning to Palestine.
04 · Teagasc / Teaching
St. Paul's Special School
Cork · 2020 – present
I've been teaching weekly music sessions at St. Paul's Special School in Cork under Music Mash Up Cork for some time now — a school for students with moderate, severe and profound general learning disabilities. Our weekly health & wellbeing music sessions are the highlight of my week.