Varo are Dublin-based singers and fiddle players Lucie Azconaga (from France) and Consuelo Nerea Breschi (from Italy) who perform Irish traditional songs and tunes with arrangement influences from the Folk, Baroque and Classical traditions, weaving around the melodies with harmonies, drones and countermelody. The duo are currently finishing an ambitious collaboration project, which will culminate in a new album, featuring 12 of Ireland’s most exciting traditional and folk musicians on the scene: Ian Lynch (Lankum), Junior Brother, Slow Moving Clouds, Niamh Bury, Inni-K, John Francis Flynn, Cormac McDiarmada (Lankum) + Ruth Clinton, Anna Mieke, Lemoncello, Alannah Thornburgh, Landless, Branwen, and Alfi. The project is set for release Autumn 2022.
For this show there will be special guest sets from harpist Alannah Thornburgh, and the new Poor Creature project featuring the duo of Ruth Clinton from Landless and Cormac McDiarmada of Lankum.