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What were you like as a girl growing up in Clonmel, Co Tipperary?
I was very quiet and a real introvert. I spent a lot of time outside running around in the field beside my house. I loved looking at the ruins of an old church and castle nearby. I was always singing.
Choose three words that best describe you.
Sensitive, a dreamer and spiritual.
You are a singer and a songwriter. How did that happen if there was no music in your family?
My mam sent me to piano lessons from the age of seven. I had done ballet the year before and I had to choose between the two. I stayed with the piano right through my teenage years. I only started to enjoy it when I quit the lessons and started to play on my own. But it gave me the foundations of music and discipline. Also, Sister Bernadette Sweeney was the principal of my primary school. She is an extraordinary, musical person. We sang through the whole day as part of our routine.
Limerick-based musician inspired by folklore for album about modern women
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A LIMERICK based musician delves into feminist themes on her second album which is set to wow ears on International Women’s Day.
An artist in residence at John’s Square here in Limerick, Edel Meade has been on the scene as a jazz musician for several years, but now she draws on Irish history and folklore to talk about women in her album Brigids and Patricias.
“I really wanted to explore what it means to be an Irish woman in 2021” she told the Leader.
This idea is very palpable in Edel’s new music. Her first song released from the album, A Song for Bridget Cleary, tells the story of a Clonmel woman who was killed by her husband in 1895 because he thought she was a changeling.
Letty Stott at Britten Pears Arts Festival of New, Snape Maltings
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From ancient horns to ‘fractured punk’, Britten Pears Arts is offering audiences a lockdown mini-festival of music this weekend.
Festival of New is a whirlwind annual showcase of new projects in development, created on residencies at Snape Maltings by musicians representing a large breadth of musical genres.
Usually, it takes the form of a live weekend at Snape in September but, because of Covid, this year it will be broadcast online.
It takes place on Saturday, February 27 on YouTube Live and tickets are free.
Bridget Cleary was killed by her husband who believed she was a witch or possessed by a fairy changeling.
The story of the torture and murder of Bridget Cleary in Tipperary in 1895 by her husband, who believed her to be a witch or possessed by a fairy changeling,is the subject of Joe Ambrose’s novel Loves Dark Light . It is also the inspiration behind the concept album ‘Tryal’ by The Host, a band featuring members of Horslips, Eamon Carr, Johnny Fean and Charles O’Connor.
Joe Ambrose describes 26 year old Bridget Cleary as a typical peasant housewife from the Victorian era. Following a brief absence from her home, Bridget fell ill with a cold. Her cousin Patrick Dunne decreed she had been snatched by a fairy and a changeling left in her place.