Updated / Wednesday, 10 Mar 2021
22:01
Joyce with a voice
Musicians including Adrian Crowley, Lisa Hannigan, and Cora Venus Lunny will perform new versions of James Joyce poems as part of this year s St. Patrick’s Festival, with a double vinyl album of their interpretations set to follow.
Lisa Hannigan. Photo: Cormac Scully
Making its first release on its own label, Ireland’s only Record Pressing Plant, Dublin Vinyl, will release the musical take on Joyce’s poetry book,
Pomes Penyeach, which was published in 1927 as thirteen short poems.
The album features Crowley (vocals, piano, acoustic guitar and mellotron), Hannigan (vocals), Matthew Nolan (electric guitar), Sean Mac Erlaine (reeds and electronics), Lunny (violin and viola) and Kevin Murphy (cello).