Alannah Thornburgh Music

What a buzz on Sunday performing in the Abbey Theatre for the first time! 🎭 A huge thanks to Julien & the crew at Dublin Story Slam for having me as their musical guest 🎶

My next solo gig is the beautiful Dublin Castle for TenpleBar TradFest on January 26th. You can get tickets at my website below if ye would like to come along!

https://www.alannahthornburgh.com/shows

What a great night we had on Sunday at the launch of our album in Whelan's🕺 thanks so much to everyone who came out to celebrate with us and sang along to our songs. Buzzing for the next night already - follow Alfi for more upcoming gigs & gossip xo

A huge thanks to the incredible Ruskavellas for opening the show and for joining us at the end for a tune & Shane McGowan tribute, and also to Baptiste Loosfelt for joining us too 🎻 A very special thanks to Mikaela Mc Donnell for manning the merch table and selling (and wearing) our new CDs & T-shirts in shtyle ❤️ twas a night to remember for sure! X

We will be launching our album tomorrow night on the main stage in Whelan's 🕺 If you are around Dublin and would like to come, the last few tickets are available below or you can get some at the door. Whoop whoop!!!

https://www.whelanslive.com/event/alfi/

Howdy - I have some exciting gigs coming up over the next while in Dublin.. I’m looking forward to getting out and playing for people again after a November of making soup and hibernating. Details below and tickets available on my website!

3rd December: ‘Say Old Man’ album launch with Alfi in Whelan's🕺 We can’t wait to play music from our new album for ye, and we will be joined by special guests Ruskavellas - it’s going to be a great night! Last remaining tickets available now.

10th December: I’m honoured to be chosen as the musical guest for the final of the Dublin Story Slam - taking place in the Abbey Theatre 🎭

26th January: Solo show in the beautiful Dublin Castle as part of TradFest - very excited for this one!

Hope to see ye along the way. More gigs & news coming soon Xo

https://www.alannahthornburgh.com/shows

Thanks for the write-up The Mayo News 💚❤️

I’m so excited to be playing at TempleBar TradFest on January 26th in the beautiful Dublin Castle. If anyone would like to come, you can get tickets below 💗

https://tradfest.com/events/alannah-thornburgh/

Swinford harpist set for big Dublin date Alannah Thornburgh to perform at TradFest 2024

We will be launching our album in Whelan's, Dublin on December 3rd 🪄 Get your tickets at the link below if ye would like to come along and spread the word. So excited!

https://www.whelanslive.com/event/alfi/

Happy Samhain 🎃 I have a newsletter going out today about my latest musical happenings, sign up at the link below if ye are interested! 🪄

https://alannahthornburgh.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=750e873e09cd0cab171c25152&id=173774ae79

Hello! I’m playing at October Nights Festival in Ballina Arts Centre tonight at 8:30! There’s still some last minute tickets available at the door if ye want to come by 🎃 very excited and looking forward to hearing Laurie Shaw & Peter Broderick too!

Thanks for the birthday wishes ye legends 💗🦂

I’m heading home to Mayo this weekend to play at October Nights festival in Ballina Arts Centre 🎃 There’s still some tickets left so if you’d like to come along! It’s gonna be a shpooky one 👻

Good morning! I’ll be playing a few tunes and chatting about Harp Day | Lá na Cruite and some upcoming gigs on RTÉ Countrywide this morning in about ten minutes. ✨

I will be heading to Dundalk this Saturday for a special Harp Day performance with Alfi, the Music Generation Louth Harp Ensemble & Nós Nua. We will be premiering an arrangement of mine that I created especially for the ensemble so I’m very excited to hear it in full on the night. Tickets available at the link below ✨

https://www.harpireland.ie/harpers-in-harmony-at-st-nicholas-church-of-ireland-dundalk/

What a pleasure to share a gig in the beautiful Honan Chapel last night with the incredible Laoise Kelly💚❤️ thanks to UCC TradSoc and Harp Ireland for putting on a great event. The harp day celebrations are in full swing!

Howdy - I’m happy out to be playing at two events for Harp Day | Lá na Cruite this month. You can find details of the shows below and tickets on my website ⬇️ Come along and celebrate the harp with us 💗

Oct 17: Harpers at the Honan, Cork

Oct 21st: Harps in Harmony, Dundalk with Alfi, Music Generation Louth and Nós Nua

https://www.alannahthornburgh.com/shows

Check out Harp Ireland for more incredible events taking place throughout the country and further afield!

📸: Daisy Chain Photos

Hello! I will be heading down to Cork on October 17th to play in the beautiful Honan Chapel alongside the incredible Laoise Kelly. Up Mayo! 💚❤️

Harp Ireland UCC TradSoc

A bit of news for ye! I have some exciting shows coming up over the next while - both solo and with Alfi - and with some more to be announced soon too🕺 Tickets available on my website in the link below. I would love to see a few familiar heads there. ✨💗✨

https://www.alannahthornburgh.com/shows

** Dundalk gig is also with Alfi 😊

📸: Daisy Chain Photos

A busy week of musicking finished off yesterday with a lovely gig back home in Mayo where I was joined by my dad Rob Thornburgh 🎻 Here’s to many more together! ❤️

Beautiful gig in Cornstown House Farm on Sunday with Alfi 🦙🌻 thanks to Fiona and family for having us and to everyone who came out to listen or buy a copy of our album. More gig announcements with Alfi coming very soon!

In other news, I will be playing a solo show next Friday the 15th in Bridge Street Castlebar for their Are Ya Still At The Music? series. I’ll be supporting Paddy Dennehy and you can get tickets at my website below. Looking forward to returning to Mayo!

https://www.alannahthornburgh.com/shows

Hello hello, some nice moments lately which include meeting this magnificent pelican, a little tour with Festival in a Van, hiding from the rain at Féile na HAbhann and album release fun with Alfi🦉

In other news, I have some shows coming up over the next few weeks 🕺 Details below and more tba soon, you can find tickets etc on my website below!

3rd September: Cornstown House Farmwith Alfi - this is an early one (kicking off at 3pm) so it would be a great gig for all ages, it’s also on a farm and you can do some alpaca trekking which is pretty cool 🦙🐔🐮

15th September: solo gig in Bridge Street Mayo supporting the great Paddy Dennehy - v excited to hear him live!

https://www.alannahthornburgh.com/shows

I was honoured to join the Festival in a Van team today for their Vital Signs tour in Cavan ✨ myself & poet Stephen Sexton performed at the Irish Wheelchair Association and Clogher House. Thanks for having me!

I’m very proud of my students Róisín & Áine McNamara who along with their friend Nessa placed 2nd in the 12-15 Trio competition at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil 🤘❤️ Róisín also came 1st in the Uilleann Pipes Slow Airs and 3rd in the Uilleann Pipes. Little legends 😊🎶

I’m heading up to Belfast this morning to play at Féile na HAbhann - very excited! 😊 I’ll be playing at 1pm on the Acoustic Stage if anyone is about 🕺

The physical copies of our album ‘Say Old Man’ with Alfi have arrived! 🕺 We are so delighted with how they have turned out. If you would like to order a copy, check out our Bandcamp below.

A special thank you to the amazing women Sophie Le Fevre & Lauren Varian for the beautiful artwork & design ❤️

https://alfi.bandcamp.com/album/say-old-man

Hello hello, just letting ye know about some solo shows I’ll be playing over the next while that I’m v excited about 🌷

Tomorrow I will be heading to the Cork Opera House to perform at their lunchtime concert series, so come along if you’re about 🌙 I’ll be playing at Féile na HAbhann in Belfast then on the 6th of August and Festival in a Van in Cavan on the 22nd of August for their Vital Signs tour ✨ all details can be found on my website below 😊

https://www.alannahthornburgh.com

📸: Daisy Chain Photos 🌸🌷💖

Big news - myself and the Alfi lads released our debut album ‘Say Old Man’ on Friday 🦉 this album was three years in the making (!) so I am excited, nervous but mainly relieved about letting it loose into the world. You can listen to ‘Say Old Man’ wherever you get your music, or buy a CD from our Bandcamp at the link below ✨ enjoy the music and let us know what ye think of it 😊🕺🤘

A huge thank you to everyone involved in the making of this album - Julie McLarnon at Analogue Catalogue Recording Studios (and the donkeys for keeping us entertained in between takes), assistant engineers Elise Molle & Carl Small, mastering wizard and v sound guy™️ Joel Harkin and Sophie le Fevre & Lauren Varian for the beautiful artwork & design ❤️❤️

https://alfi.bandcamp.com/album/say-old-man

New song ‘Jubilee’ out today with Alfi - we hope you like it 😊🪕 you can listen to it at the link below! Our album ‘Say Old Man’ will be out on July 21st 🦉

https://alfi.bandcamp.com/track/jubilee-2

Jubilee is out today - listen to it wherever you get your music through the link in our bio 🪕 We sourced this song from the singing of Appalachian folk singer-songwriter Jean Ritchie 😊 we hope ye like it!

Jubilee was recorded and mixed by Julie McLarnon in Analogue Catalogue Recording Studios, mastered by Joel Harkin and artwork by Sophie le Fevre 💛

Anyone around Clare tomorrow come along to our gig in Yellow Submarine Corofin🤘

Hey everyone - very excited to announce today that our debut album ’Say Old Man’ will be released on July 21st 😊 we spent three years working on this album and I can’t wait for ye to hear it. You can pre-order the album on our Bandcamp here:

https://alfi.bandcamp.com/album/say-old-man

One of the tracks from the album - Jubilee - will be released this Friday to celebrate 🎉

The picture below was taken at Beyond the Pale festival last weekend 🤘 check out my website below to catch one of our gigs this summer! Xo

https://www.alannahthornburgh.com/shows

I’ll be playing at two festivals with Alfi this weekend - Stoneybatter Festival on Saturday & Beyond the Pale on Sunday! ☀️

A bank holiday weekend well spent teaching harp workshops at Mullingar Harp School and running the Vhi Women's Mini Marathon for the first time ☀️🎶🏃‍♀️

What a gorgeous weekend spent playing and teaching fiddle at Fiddler's Farm 🎻🎶☀️ Thanks for having me, it’s my new favourite festival for sure!

For the bank holiday weekend I will be teaching harp workshops in Mullingar Harp School this Saturday and running the Women’s Mini Marathon on Sunday for the first time 🏃‍♀️ have a good one! Xo

Heading to The Netherlands for the weekend to teach some fiddle workshops at Fiddler's Farm 🎶🎻 it will be nice to travel lightly without the harp for a change!

Hello everyone, very happy to announce that myself and the Alfi lads will be playing some gigs & festivals this summer 🌞🌚 come along and join us! Dates & venues below and on my website with more to be announced. We will also have news on our upcoming album very very soon! Xo

18th June: Beyond the Pale Festival - Glendalough

1st July: The Yellow Submarine, Corofin

22nd July: Forest Festival, Co. Laois

28th July: The Seamus Ennis Arts Centre alongside Kris Drever, Steph Geremia, Alan Kelly & Aaron Jones

3rd September: Music on the Farm, Cornstown House, Co. Meath 🦙

https://www.alannahthornburgh.com/

Ramblings in Italy a few weeks ago 🇮🇹🍕

Some life updates for ye.. I’ve been spending the last few weeks finishing off a project that I’ve been working on for nearly 2 years now, that I’ll be releasing in the next few months! ✨ Myself & the lads have also been putting the finishing touches to a new Alfi album which will be out soon too 🦉 exciting times! I’m also looking forward to teaching some fiddle workshops in The Netherlands in a few weeks at Fiddler's Farm - it will be nice to travel light with the fiddle rather than my harp for a change! 🎻 hope ye all have a great weekend! Xo

It was lovely being invited back to my old primary school today to play some harp for the Junior Infants 😊❤️ thanks Swinford NS for having me! 🎶

Earlier on today playing some harp at the beautiful Powerscourt Hotel for a networking breakfast event with Bloomberg. Thanks for having me!

I spent the weekend up in Belfast working on some new music & noise with this gang of legends 🤘 thanks to The Duncairn for giving us the space & opportunity to rehearse and to perform in the beautiful Ulster Museum 🐉

📸: Stan Nikolov & Liadain Kaminska

Earlier on at the Mansion House, where I was playing as part of St. Patrick's Festival ☘️ have a great St Patrick’s Day everyone!

It was a pleasure writing music & sound effects for an episode of ‘Scéalta’ (Eascann an Easa) for RTÉjr ✨ you can have a listen to the episode at the link below!

https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22223550-eascann-an-easa/

Ealaín le Kara O’Callaghan