Notes & Narratives: Macdara Yeates

Macdara Yeates – “Townie: Song Collecting and Outreach in Dublin’s North Inner City”

Traditional singer Macdara Yeates details his work in his native north inner-city Dublin, collaborating with schools, retired dockworkers, and local history groups, to establish historical and contemporary folk song repertoire, and to consider ways to reintegrate folk singing into modern community practice.

Notes & Narratives will take place at Na Píobairí Uilleann, 15 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, starting at 8:30pm on Thursday 20th June 2024. Admission is €10 (unwaged / student / retired €5). For those unable to attend in person, it will also be live streamed for free through our channel NPU-TV.

Na Píobairí Uilleann presents Notes & Narratives – a series of monthly performance-based lectures on traditional music, song and dance by some of Ireland’s finest traditional artists.

Supported by The Arts Council.