Join us on this unique tour through today’s Irish folk music – a concert evening curated by Willie Stewart from the thrilling Irish indie label Nyahh Records. The concert is presented together with Final Descent.

“I started Nyahh Records because I kept hearing new music in Ireland that I was really excited about and wanted to work with, and that I thought deserved to reach more people. I find the quality of what’s coming out in Ireland right now to be amazing, and I want to help shine a light on it,” says Willie Stewart, the man behind the Irish label Nyahh Records. Now he has put together two different concert nights at Alice with exactly that purpose: to showcase some of the most interesting experimental Irish music of the moment.

All the artists you’ll experience across the two nights are affiliated with Nyahh Records. But what exactly is Nyahh? According to Willie Stewart, Nyahh refers to the innate soul of music. But also to something you can’t quite put your finger on. “I like that the Nyahh is unclassifiable,” he said in the same interview, “That’s how I would like the releases on the label to be as well.” Nyahh Records primarily releases experimental music and folk from Ireland. And on this evening, you can look forward to everything from harp playing fused with electronica, to high-energy rap and instrumental music that will transport you to another dimension. 

Méabh McKenna
Méabh McKenna is a multi-instrumental sound artist based in East of Ireland. She plays the pedal harp and the early Irish wire strung harp, as well as use her voice, electronics, and found objects, to create her enchanting sound. Drawing on years of experimentation and collaboration, her live performances have evolved from traversing the eclectic worlds of traditional, classical, and early music, to intuitively weaving them with contemporary and electronic elements. Her performances shift through veils of memory and moment, responding to present space and past, weaving inner and imagined realms. 

E The Artist
Daranijoh Sanni, better known as E The Artist is an experimental rapper, producer and art director from Ayrfield in North Dublin. Guided by Afropunkism, E The Artist’s body of work recontextualizes contemporary black club genres in its loudest, brashest and most intense iterations. Dance and rap styles, from jungle to grime, fuse with the heavier strains of power electronics and extreme metal tropes. In his celebrated work as an artist, E places a lens on the constantly blossoming neo-cultures happening across the diaspora from his home base of Ireland. You can be sure to get blown away by E The Artist’s high energy show!

Eimear Reidy and Natalia Beylis
Cellist Eimear Reidy and experimental all-rounder Natalia Beylis create evocative and intoxicating music that conjures webs of woodland landscapes, kosmische moonrises and odysseys of drones. Based in Leitrim, the duo compose new music for keyboard instruments, cello and electronics. Together they have formed a distinctive musical language that represents a common ground between their individual styles and opens avenues for improvisation within their performances that wrap around one another like the roots of ancient trees.

In 2021, they released their first album together, and in 2023 came the follow-up, She Came Through the Window to Stand by the Door, which was recorded on Ireland’s second oldest organ inside a church. About the second album, Daryl Worthington wrote in The Quietus that “The idea of sound being world building is common in ‘electronic’ music, whether modular or computer. Beylis and Reidy show that surroundings can be bypassed with acoustic means, and the conjured realms can be full of motion and life. Transportive isn’t quite the right word. Their music induces hyperphantasia.” Look forward to enter new worlds with Eimear Reidy and Natalia Beylis!

Willie Stewart has curated two different concert evenings, and if you’d like to attend both, you’ll need to buy two separate tickets.