Amhráin’s musical journey showcases best of Galway

Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell

Over the month of March, Citóg Records teased colourful stills and clips from their latest project across social media – a tour de force through some of Galway’s finest musical talents…past, present and future.  The faces and locations evoked a strange sort of nostalgia – not least because many of the people involved have been noticeably absent from local stages for over a year now and the chosen venues, a series of iconic landmarks around the city, have never felt so sentimental.

What arrived on April 17, then, was an appropriately emotive piece of work that slotted seamlessly into the canon of local music it set out to honour.

Amhráin – a Galway 2020 Small Town Big Ideas initiative – sees members of the Citóg collective reimagine songs written by fellow Galway artists, past and present.

Produced by David Boland with Hob Junker on sound and Alison of AMW Visual on video, the film meanders around the city, making stops at Bell, Book & Candle, The Blue Note, The Corn Store, the Róisín Dubh and the Galway Arts Centre.

Emma Lohan’s cameo from an arts space in the Balearic Islands is the only exception but her delicate performance of the Stunning’s Half Past Two is firmly rooted at home. As she explains, the song was her anthem at the age of twelve.

Donal McConon of the Curly Organ opens proceedings with a floating, high-praising monologue ahead of an a cappella, harmony-heavy version of Eoin Dolan’s Caesar’s Palace outside the track’s casino namesake.

Eoin himself follows with a slow, stripped back cover of New Pope’s We Were Young. The longstanding relationship between the two is testament to the sense of community that runs throughout Amhráín. There is a feeling of inclusivity about the Galway scene right now and that camaraderie is reflected in the piece.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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