With sean-nós and folk music in her blood, Ríoghnach Connolly has blended her passion for the traditional Irish folk idiom with influences from all over the world.
Voted BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winners Folk Singer of the Year 2020 and nominated for the RTE Folk Award's Best Original Track for her collaboration on Not Your Fight with the Henry Girls, she has released three albums with Peter Gabriel’s label Real World Records, and her vocals feature on his new album I/O.
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The Armagh-born, Manchester-living singer, flautist and songwriter is back in Ireland this month for Sligo's Cairde Arts Festival, where one of her projects - Ríoghnach Connolly and Honeyfeet - will be performing as part of their They Want What You’ve Got tour.
She joined RTÉ Arena from Manchester - listen above.
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