Join GreenBirdFlying on the second Saturday of the month for a lunchtime musical journey with special guests. BYOL* or get coffee and cake in the Jury Room café.
GreenBirdFlying is the alt folk trio of Cliodhna Quinlan, Mark Murphy, and Mandi Frankham. As a trio, they perform tuneful original folk music and songs with a hint of strangeness, that fit around many genres including traditional Irish, old time Appalachian, and Americana.
Their guest for Saturday 14 March is local old time banjo player and singer Colin Beggan. He leads Cryans’ Bluegrass Session and plays regularly in the Boyle Folk Club. He will join them on old time tunes, his favourite songs, and some of his own work. Kíla’s Rossa Ó Snodaigh will be April's guest...
Drop in to the Jury Room café from 12 — 2pm. No booking required.
*Bring Your Own Lunch
Origin Story
GreenBirdFlying flew in on a south east wind and landed in Leitrim. They landed as the swans land. On the water, feet first, wings beating for balance. The Shannon took them downstream and they walked out on the steps where the old metal barges moor.
Cliodhna carries an old leather suitcase with an embroidered handle which contains all their songs which they have collected from the hedgerows and trees and birds and fish over the years. Each song is wrapped in tissue paper and tied with a woven ribbon. She plays four stringed fiddle and her bow is made from the howl of a black dog and horsehair.
Mark has a piano he stole from the heron who hunts frogs in the lake and a guitar he won in a wager with a kingfisher. When he plays bright feathers fall from his fingers.
Mandi was rescued from the fairy rath. We gave three silver beads for her and a headdress of feathers so they would return her with her voice intact. She is three hundred years old and has seen the old gods walk the land.
We spin sound into story. We spin story into song. We spin songs into life. We three.