Awarded folk musician is set to be on stage at The Dock

On Friday, November 3, The Dock presents Ultan O’Brien and Martin Green in partnership with the Music Network.

Ultan O’Brien is a musician and composer hailing from County Clare, based in Leitrim. He is a fiddle and viola player with a background in traditional Irish and improvised music. 

He performs as a soloist, in duos with Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and percussive dancer Nic Gareiss, and as a member of Slow Moving Clouds, Skipper’s Alley, John Francis Flynn, and Neil Ó Loclainn’s Cuar.

Martin Green is a multi-award-winning musician and Ivor Novello-winning composer. As a member of Lau, he has won BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Group an unprecedented four times.

In 2015, he was nominated in the Best Musician category. In 2014, he received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in recognition of his talent as a composer. 

In 2019, he won the Ivor Novello award for his sound walk “Aeons”, part of The Great Exhibition of the North.

Ultan and Martin share an adventurous spirit when exploring musical boundaries. 

Their work brings live traditional acoustic instruments, electronic music and storytelling together to explore the peculiar history and evolution of scordatura. 

The term, which means alternate tuning on the fiddle, is a unique part of the fiddle-playing tradition in Leitrim. 

Ultan O’Brien is the recipient of Music Network’s 2023 RESONATE Musician-in-Residence award, which supports professional musicians with a strong track record in music performance to develop new collaborations. 

This residency enables the selected musician to devote time to the creation of new work, in addition to a range of in-kind support along with opportunities to showcase the work through live performances and digital updates.

For further information about the residency, the event and the musicians, you can visit The Dock’s website at www.thedock.ie or call the box office at 071 96 50 828.