Family Trad Singing Workshop with Bealtaine Festival 3 May 2025
In this relaxed and welcoming session, you’ll explore the beauty and richness of traditional Irish songs, learning together through listening, singing, and sharing stories.
Bealtaine and The Ark invite grandparents and grandchildren, (or any family or friends of different generations) to join us for this fun singing workshop, inspired by traditional Irish songs. This workshop has been designed for children 8-12 and their grown-ups to sing together. Each ticket includes one child and one adult.
This event is presented in partnership with the Bealtaine Festival, celebrating creativity at all ages.
Spaces are limited, so early booking is recommended.
About the Artist
Branwen Kavanagh is a singer, musician, composer, performance artist and puppeteer from the West of Ireland. Inspired by folklore, dada, poetry and theatre and led by a powerful imagination, Branwen’s art and music are usually fashioned into surreal and potent experiences which cross the threshold into bizarre and magical territory. They are an award nominated artist, have performed their compositions on Other Voices, The National Concert Hall, Glastonbury, RTE, BBC and have toured internationally. They are the songwriter for well known projects including Twin Headed Wolf, Rufous Nightjar and their solo project, Branwen. Branwens shows include crankies, storytelling, puppetry and unusual objects employed as instruments. With absurd humour and the occasional on stage wedding, their haunting and poetic music juxtaposed with the hilarious and surreal leaves a warm otherworldly impression on their audiences.
They have released 2 full length albums of their original compositions this year in 2024 with Twin Headed Wolf (Altarwise) and Rufous Nightjar (Songs for Three Voices). In 2019 they released a solo record (Hunted and Haunted) as Branwen and an album of acapella traditional songs in 2015 with Twin Headed Wolf which is housed in ITMA. They are in the process of completing their next solo album.