Landless (IE)

The quartet Landless enchant audiences with tinkling beautiful vocal harmonies as they bring century-old Irish folk songs to life on ALICE. The concert is presented in collaboration with Final Descent.

Attention: Ticket sales start on Thursday, August 27 at 11 a.m.

“Sometimes the human voice is all you need, communicating something essential about our drive to exist together as a species, to sound our internal worlds in union, at volume.” — The Guardian

The Irish quartet Landless consists of Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch. They found each other on Dublin's traditional vocal scene and, since 2013, have been creating exquisite harmonies together when interpreting old Irish ballads as well as newer folk songs from various sources. The quartet's sound is at once spellbinding, dark and grand.

In 2018, Landless released the critically acclaimed debut album “Bleaching Bones” and in 2024 the sequel “Lúireach” was released, which has also been received with great enthusiasm. It is an album full of quiet power, where tradition-rich songs about melancholy, love, death and mystery are sung in new and surprising ways and sometimes with instrumental accompaniment. Many of the songs on the album are about bold women, which break with the passive, female archetype found in many traditional songs. “It is refreshing to find songs that challenge this power dynamic, but we are not totally hard-line about it, and sing plenty of old-fashioned love songs,” said Ruth Clinton of the quartet. Look forward to songs of both courage and devotion - and not least a goosebump-inducing experience - when Landless guests ALICE with their captivating, moving and powerful sound.

Said about Landless

“... fans of Celtic music should flock to this stunning sound” — Jude Rogers in The Guardian on the album Lúireach (2024)