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Ashley Davis & Cormac de Barra

Making a very welcomed return visit to LRFC, following their SRO Christmas 2016 concert, we are delighted to bring back Ashley and Cormac for another evening of beautiful music and first class banter!

Ashley Davis is a rising star adding 6 albums to the Celtic canon over the past decade. As creator of beautiful, lush melodies sung with a gorgeous, romantic style, Davis has also frequently teamed with current (Sarah Watkins) and eternal (Paddy Maloney) stars in her popular output. NBCs Today Show described her songs and sound as new music springing from ancient roots and was recently named one of the most influential Irish-Americans under the age of 40 for her work within this field.

Irish harp master, composer, TV presenter Cormac de Barra whose resume includes 5 group and 4 duo albums with Moya The Voice of Clannad Brennan, 3 albums with Ashley Davis, 5 with English singer/songwriter Hazel OConnor, and 5 other releases of solo and/or duo/group albums in addition to playing with such luminaries as The Chieftains, the Irish Harp Orchestra, Cathy Jordan (of Dervish) Galway singer, composer, songwriter and record producer Julie Feeney and with his brothers Fionan and Eamonn. At 17 he performed for Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in their palace at Akasaka, Tokyo, also present was Irish Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney. In Scotland he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Hazel O'Connor. In addition to performing, as a TV presenter Cormac has presented the traditional Irish music series, Flosc, on TG4, Ireland's Gaelic-language TV channel, which was awarded Best Music Series by Irish Music Magazine in 2002. He is a presenter of the arts series Imeall on TG4.