RÓIS / Milkweed

Standard £25 // Solidarity £32.50 // Under 30 £10
Advance booking required

Our Solidarity ticket price is an opportunity for audiences to support our work by purchasing a ticket at a slightly higher price (the cost of a Standard ticket plus 30%). Read more about Solidarity prices here.

Book a ticket for RÓIS / Milkweed and Córas Trio / Brìghde Chaimbeul (Thu 27 Nov) and receive 10% discount*
*applies to standard/solidarity ticket prices only. Discount applied automatically at basket.

Doors: 7.15pm // Stage time: 7:45pm

RÓIS:
Rose Connelly prophet synth / vocals
Josh Sampson drums / tracks

Milkweed:
G banjo
R banjo

RÓIS (Rose Connolly) is a composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and electronic artist from Fermanagh whose music breathes new life into a forgotten Ireland. Blending folk, sean-nós, jazz harmony and experimental electronics, she creates shape-shifting sonic worlds where tradition and innovation meet.

Her acclaimed debut EP MO LÉAN – released in late 2024, written and produced by RÓIS with additional production from John Spud Murphy (OXN/Lankum) – is a concept record, tracing the arc of grief from the chaos of loss to cathartic release. Drawing inspiration from the last surviving recordings of Irish keeners – women who would ‘keen’ a lamenting wail at the side of a coffin during a wake, conveying the communal expression of grief and allowing those suffering a way to release their sorrow – RÓIS samples and honours their voices, reawakening ancient traditions as a force for contemporary healing.

RÓIS’ ethereal voice has been compared to the likes of Björk, Meredith Monk and Hatis Noit. With twists and turns of tempo and genre, and moments of sheer magic, no two performances are ever the same. This is a place where the ancient meets the new.

“RÓIS is a startling singer… MO LÉAN heralds an arresting new talent.” – The Guardian

“Connolly explores wider concepts of death, grief and catharsis that at times reaches astonishing potency” – The Quietus

Milkweed are an duo making experimental folk music steeped in myth, memory and the weight of inherited stories. Their latest record, Remscéla, is a haunting and expansive work rooted in the prelude tales of the Táin Bó Cúailnge, an epic of Irish mythology, filtered through the language of Thomas Kinsella’s 1969 translation. This is folk music not defined by genre but by method: fragmentary, reverent and radically interpretive.

Produced by hcmf// as part of Music Traditions in a Contemporary Context; supported by Culture Ireland; also supported by Hinrichsen Foundation, Vaughan Williams Foundation and hcmf// Benefactor Peter Bamfield

Photo: Milkweed © Poppy Warring // ROIS © Orlaith Mac Eoin Manus