NUIG hosts sean-nós singing workshops
NUI Galway’s Sean-Nós Singer in Residence, Caitlín Ní Chualáin, will give a second series of sean-nós singing workshops beginning at 7pm next Tuesday, January 14, and running every second week on January 28 and February 11. The workshops will take place in the Seminar Room at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
From An Teach Mór Thiar, Indreabhán, Caitlín won Comórtas na mBan at the Oireachtas in 2005, 2008 and 2014 and the coveted Corn Uí Riada, the premier competition for sean-nós singing at the Oireachtas festival in 2016.
She cites her father, Máirtín Pheaits Ó Cualáin, a winner of Comórtas na bhFear at the Oireachtas in 1944 and 2001, as a major influence on her singing career. Caitlín also draws on the area’s rich tradition of sean-nós singers. She can frequently be heard on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, where she also works as a journalist, and also at concerts and workshops.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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