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Kilkenny Arts Festival Secret Music Series: Barry O’Halpin

Ken McGuire by Ken McGuire
11th August 2021
in Events & Festivals, Video
Reading Time: 2min read

Kilkenny Arts Festival’s Secret Music Series is back for 2021 and today it’s the turn of guitarist Barry Halpin.

This is the fourth release in the pre-recorded series for this year’s festival, following performances from Laoise Kelly, Francesco Turrisi and singer Nell Ní Chróinín.

O’Halpin is a Dublin-based composer and electric guitarist, and a member of leading Irish contemporary music group Crash Ensemble, as well as having been the group’s Composer-in-Residence in 2018-2021.

From 2018-20 he was the Arts & Humanities Artist-in-Residence at Parity Studios, University College Dublin. He is a composing and performing member of Dublin experimental rock trio Alarmist with whom he has released four records to international critical acclaim.

Barry’s music combines liminal timbres and microtonal sonorities with a strongly intuitive melodic and rhythmic streak, and a porous attitude to genre-boundary. As a composer-performer, he uses invented tunings and unorthodox techniques to explore new uses of the electric guitar in the contemporary chamber ensemble.

Watch: Barry O’Halpin #KAF21

For more on the series, visit kilkennyarts.ie.

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