2009 seems like a lifetime ago. Missing you, Lisa Hannigan
Lisa Hannigan
Lisa Hannigan is hitting a lighter note
Lisa Hannigan has done a great deal in the past decade. Having begun her career providing vocal support to Damien Rice, she struck out on her own in 2008. She forged relationships with other musicians and branched out into voice acting, including a key role in the Oscar-nominated Song of the Sea and an ongoing part in Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe. She moved from Ireland to London and then, happily, back to Dublin. She also got married. Most notable, however, are her three solo albums; the Mercury and Choice-nominated Sea Sew (2008), the Choice-nominated Passenger (2011) and At Swim (2016), a record preceded by writer’s block, imbued with homesickness and produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner [ . . . ]
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A sea of brollies and a world of fabulous music at the Cambridge Folk Festival
An amazing thing happens when the rain falls on the Cambridge Folk Festival, as it did, with considerable ferocity, several times this weekend.
An amazing thing happens when the rain falls on the CambridgeFolk Festival, as it did, with considerable ferocity, several times this weekend. Almost instantly, and with minimal fuss, a thousand umbrellas emerge from a thousand neatly-packed day-bags; and the fields around the two main stages become an object lesson in British stoicism and weather-preparedness
[ . . .] Musical highlights glittered across the weekend. The Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan was a memorable high point early on Friday afternoon, delivering a main stage performance of such musical accomplishment and melodic beauty that I wondered if anything could top it. Accompanied by a responsive four-piece band, she switched between guitar, mandolin and harmonium, and worked through a setlist drawn mostly from 2016 album, At Swim. On the record, these unhurried, water-themed songs are so subtle and gently realised that they almost fall into the background; but on stage, propelled by her voice – which has touches of Sinead O’Connor and Portishead’s Beth Gibbons – they grabbed both lapels. Her a cappella voicing of the Seamus Heaney poem Anahorish, mid-set, was the finest single piece of singing I’ve heard all year [ . . . ]
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