Kíla - Album Launch Concert

30/04/2010 - 30/04/2010

Kila - Glens Centre

Traditional/ fusion band Kíla launch their new album Soisín which they recorded here in the Glens Centre

Traditional/ fusion band Kíla launch their new album Soisín which they recorded in the Glens Centre at a special concert on Saturday 30th January at 8.30pm.  Soisín is their ninth studio album and portraying a softer side to the band, the album is entirely instrumental and features violin, saw, guitar, mandolin, flute, uilleann pipes, double bass and percussion. The music is gentle and slow.

Soisín shows both the exceptional musicianship of each of the members and that Kila are very much connected to the invisible thread that ties generations of Irish musicians together. They continue to add to the thread and to our national treasure with new compositions and tunes. A book with 100 of Kíla’s tunes will be published in March.

Soisín is named after, and dedicated to a young Irish woman, Máire 'Soishin' O'Halloran, who travelled to Japan to join a Zen Buddhist monastery and in three short years came to be regarded as a Buddhist Bodhisattva or a saint of compassion. She lost her life in a bus accident in Thailand on her way back home. While touring in Japan, Kíla flautist, Colm Ó Snodaigh heard and was inspired by her story. He wrote the tune Soisín which, in turn became the name of the album.

This concert will be seated so booking is recommended. 

Telephone: 071 9855833. 

Doors open at 8.00pm. 
Concert starts at 8.30pm