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Trad/roots: Kíla close Féile na Carraige, Irish/Iranian quartet Navá play the Duncairn

Barry and Laura Kerr, Féile na Carraige, Saturday October 6
Barry and Laura Kerr, Féile na Carraige, Saturday October 6 Barry and Laura Kerr, Féile na Carraige, Saturday October 6

THE Hills are alive with the sound of music… well, almost. Under the shadow of the Black Mountain, Jake Mac, Barry and Laura Kerr and supergroup Kila will get the Giant’s Foot tapping when they bring Féile na Carraige to an end at the O’Donnell’s GAC on the Whiterock Road tomorrow evening.

When not composing and making music, Jake is a youth worker and language activist, while brother and sister Barry and Laura Kerr grew up listening to music in their father’s pub near Lough Neagh. Their new album, Castor Hill which pays homage to their home place, is already receiving brilliant reviews.

Laura is a fiddle player now living in the musical mecca of the Dingle peninsula and Barry is a multi-instrumentalist who plays flute, uilleann pipes, guitar and bouzouki and sings. The pair will be joined on the night with a powerhouse of accompanying musicians, Donogh Hennessy and Ryan O’Donnell.

Then to bring the evening to a suitable crescendo, one of Ireland’s most innovative and exciting bands Kíla take the O’Ds stage. Kíla have been creating new sounds since the late 90s, melding trad instruments with djembe, congas, brass and more and singing traditional their own songs in Irish and English.

Also tomorrow night, the Irish/Iranian quartet Navá play at the Duncairn arts centre, with music that will enchant Napoleon even as he sleeps atop Cave Hill.

Their album Tapestry has been described as charting “a unique sonic landscape, weaving material from the Irish and Persian traditions into a beguiling tapestry of sound."