27 - 30 June 2024

Hinterland Festival 2018

Music

In addition to teaming up with his sister Saramai and poet Peter Fallon on Friday evening, Oisin Leech will be joined by his regular musical partner Mark McCausland for a full Lost Brothers session on (Friday).

Tom Dunne, front man with Something Happens returns to Hinterland to celebrate the anniversary of the Beatles eponymous LP (better known as The White Album) with an illustrated tribute.

Famed local artiste Matthew Gilsenan (The Celtic Tenors) will portray the great Irish lyric tenor John McCormack in The Count in the unique setting of the ballroom of Headfort House where McCormack performed on a number of occasions.

Michael Brunnock & band in concert

Event  13 
Venue: Courthouse

Award winning singer/songwriter Michael Brunnock returns to Kells with a very special concert of new songs composed in response to the Decade of Centenaries. Inspired by Roger Casement, Ernie O’Malley and Brunnock's own family stories, exploring the Irish experience from the rising through to the civil war. Winner of an Italian Oscar, the David Di Donatello Award, for his work with David  Byrne, on the Sean Penn movie This Must Be the Place, Michael possesses an extraordinary voice, his powerful melodies and harmonies are driven by a strong personal vision drawing the listener in with an authentic vision and Irish soul. Michael will be joined by some very special guests on the night, blending some of Ireland's top Rock and Trad musicians, making this evening of music & song one not to be missed!

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Michael Brunnock & band in concert

Tony Bucher

Taking it to the streets, Californian music of the 1970s

Event  15 
Venue: Courthouse
From gritty street funk to cracker blues to gay disco divas, from street jams to slick arena rock and punk rock, California in the 1970s had it all. Come and enjoy an era highlights reel with a child of the madness that was post-hippie San Francisco. Featuring some of the greatest sounds in American musical history including the Grateful Dead, Santana, the Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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Tony Bucher

John Altman

Hidden Man: My Many Musical Lives

Event  17 
Venue: Church of Ireland
In this vivid account of over fifty years in the world of popular music, replete with anecdotes about his relationship with Amy Winehouse, Freddie Mercury, Charlie Chaplin, a Beatle and many others. Altman explains why he is the ‘Hidden Man’, whose scores include such well-known film sequences as ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ from Life of Brian, which he arranged, conducted (and was one of the whistlers), and the ship sinking in Titanic. In all, he has composed the music for over 50 movies, and won most major film awards in his long and distinguished career. He is also a much sought-after arranger and orchestrator. John Altman will be in conversation with Gerry Foley.
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John Altman

Tom Dunne

Ziggy at 50

Event  19 
Venue: Kells Theatre
On 16 June 1972 David Bowie copper-fastened his status as a rock God with the release of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. It was somewhere between a concept album and a rock opera and it came with a persona on board, the eponymous Ziggy Stardust, the alien sent to earth to save us all who succumbs to his own ego and proves not to be quite up to the thankless task. In his annual 50th birthday special Tom Dunne tackles the making and breaking of the ‘leper messiah’ and offers yet another reminder of how the world has fallen apart since we lost Bowie.
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Tom Dunne

Stephen Morris

from Joy Division to New Order, a life in music

Event  26 
Venue: Kells Theatre
Being percussionist with two of the most popular and influential bands in the history of rock music, Joy Division and New Order, is quite something to have on your CV but Stephen Morris has also guested with Echo and the Bunnymen and released two albums with his wife, New Order keyboardist Gillian Gilbert under the tongue in cheek name, The Other Two. He has also written two memoirs covering the Joy Division and New Order years, Record Play Pause and Fast Forward. Stephen will be in conversation with Nerys Williams.
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Stephen Morris

Kila in Concert

Event  31 
Venue: Headfort Hotel
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Kila in Concert

A morning with Percy French

Owen Gilhooly-Miles / Niall Kinsella / Myles Dungan

Event  32 
Venue: Headfort House
Percy French began life as the son of an Anglo-Irish landlord shortly after the Great Famine, worked as an inspector of drains but ended his life far more beloved in Ireland than such a background would normally imply. In a career on the concert stage he wrote and sang a string of Irish classics, from ‘The Mountains of Mourne’ to ‘Come Back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff’. He will be celebrated in song in a special event in the glorious Headfort House ballroom by baritone Owen Gilhooly-Miles, accompanied on piano by Niall Kinsella with a script written by Myles Dungan.
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