Lasairfhíona

Lasairfhíona (pronounced Lah-sah-reena) is a singer/songwriter deeply rooted in the sean-nós singing style of Inis Oírr, one of the Aran Islands. Her innovative approach to Irish music and her new slant on traditional singing have been celebrated in her previous albums An Raicín Álainn, Flame of Wine and One Penny Portion. The result of her work is a magical mosaic of sound, as refreshing and as unpredictable as a showery day inside in Aran. A graduate in Celtic Studies from Trinity College Dublin, a broad range of contemporary music has influenced her singing.

She has performed at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Town Hall Theatre, Galway and various other venues around Ireland. She performed abroad at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, CatSkills Festival, USA, and at prestigious venues in Canada and in Europe. Lasairfhíona has the rare ability to sing songs from an ancient Gaelic tradition while being equally at home with contemporary songs. She sang and acted in the award winning movie The Banshees of Inisherin, by the acclaimed director and writer Martin McDonagh.

She is currently completing a song project featuring both sean-nós songs and original compositions, which is due for release in late summer.

‘‘A pure breath of everything that is beautiful about Ireland."
BBC Folk & Acoustic Reviews

“Her cheerful sincerity, her gentle self-deprecation and, most importantly, her peerless talent." - The Sunday Times

"Lasairfhíona creates many different moods in these songs: playful, beguiling, mournful, seductive, innocent, direct, oblique. But there's something else here, something indefinable... a blessing... like a word that was lost, its sound and meaning restored to us again." - Gabriel Rosenstock