Crash Ensemble is a group of world-class Irish musicians who play the most adventurous, ground-breaking music of today. For this event they will team up with singer and songwriter Adrian Crowley performing works by Crowley including their collaboration As The Sun Rises On Crooked Arm, from his dark new fiction writing, with a soundscape devised by Crash, delivering a spine-tingling meeting of words, music, voice and the imaginative space between. Crash also play works by Irish composers Bebhinn McDonnell, Judith Ring, Enda Bates and Tom Lane.
Adrian Crowley is a singer-songwriter from Galway, based in Dublin and was born in Sliema, Malta.
Crowley’s rich brown croon inevitably recalls Nick Drake, but a more apposite musical touchstone is the Divine Comedy’s neil Hannon eschewing his clever-clever wordplay in order to sink into a sepia reverie –The Guardian
Crowley has released eight albums, A Strange Kind (1999), When You Are Here You Are Family (2002), A Northern Country (2004), Long Distance Swimmer (2007), Season of the Sparks (2009), I See Three Birds Flying (2012), My Yoke Is Heavy (2013) and Some Blue Morning (2014).
He has been nominated for the Choice Music Prize on three occasions, winning Irish Album of the Year for Season of the Sparks. www.adriancrowley.com
As part of the Cruinniú na Cásca national day of culture, supported by Creative Ireland and South Dublin County Council.
