The Gloaming is a contemporary Irish/American music supergroup. Its members are fiddle player Martin Hayes, sean-nós singer

Iarla Ó Lionáird Iarla Ó Lionáird (born ) is an Irish singer and record producer. He sings in the traditional Sean-nós singing, sean-nós style. He was a member of the Afro Celt Sound System and is a member of the Irish-American supergroup (music), supergroup ...

hardanger fiddle A hardanger fiddle () is a traditional stringed instrument considered the national instrument of Norway. In modern designs, this type of fiddle is very similar to the violin, though with eight or nine strings (rather than four as on a standard v ...

player

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (born 28 August 1979) is a fiddler, born in Dublin, Ireland, who attended Trinity College Dublin, becoming a scholar in Theoretical Physics (1999) and earning a first-class BA degree (as the top student of his class) in 2001. He is known for d ...

, and pianist Thomas Bartlett. Guitarist Dennis Cahill was a member until his death in June 2022. The group was formed in 2011 and began a first tour of Ireland with a sold out performance in the

National Concert Hall The National Concert Hall (NCH) (An Ceoláras Náisiúnta) is a national cultural institution, sometimes described as "the home of music in Ireland". It comprises the actual concert hall operation, which in various chambers hosts over 1,000 ...

(NCH). Since then they have played the NCH annually, increasing to a residency of seven consecutive nights by 2017. After the release of their third studio album and a concert tour in 2019, the band announced that it would "take a break" in 2020. They have recorded three studio albums, ''

The Gloaming The Gloaming is a contemporary Irish/American music supergroup. Its members are fiddle player Martin Hayes, sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, hardanger fiddle player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and pianist Thomas Bartlett. Guitarist Denni ...

'' (2014), '' The Gloaming 2'' (2016), ''

The Gloaming 3 ''The Gloaming 3'' (also referred to as "''3''") is the third studio album by the contemporary Irish/American music group The Gloaming. It was released on February 22, 2019. Content “Bronwyn Leigh”, which opens the set titled “Doctor O’N ...

'' (2019), and a concert recording, ''

Live at the NCH ''Live at the NCH'' is a live album by the contemporary Irish/American music group The Gloaming. It was released on March 2, 2018 on Real World Records. The album received widespread critical acclaim upon its release and went to No.3 in the Iris ...

'' (2018). Thomas Bartlett, the band's pianist, produced all four albums. The first was recorded at

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in Ireland and the second at

Real World Studios Real World Studios is a residential recording studio complex founded by Peter Gabriel and situated in the old Box Mill building in the village of Box, Wiltshire, England, near to the city of Bath. It is closely associated with the Real World R ...

near

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. ''The Gloaming 3'' was produced at Bartlett's studio in New York. Unlike the first two studio albums, which were recorded after rehearsals or during tours, ''The Gloaming 3'' contains music that the group had not played live together, with Bartlett taking a more active role as producer. ''Live at the NCH'' contains 6 songs chosen by Bartlett from live recordings of several of the group's National Concert Hall shows. A feature of the band's music is the adaptation of Irish language poetry into song. They have adapted works by twentieth-century poets

Michael Hartnett Michael Hartnett () (18 September 1941 – 13 October 1999) was an Irish poet who wrote in both English and Irish. He was one of the most significant voices in late 20th-century Irish writing and has been called "Munster's de facto poet laurea ...

Seán Ó Ríordáin Seán Pádraig Ó Ríordáin (3 December 1916 – 21 February 1977), sometimes referred to as an Ríordánach, was an Irish language poet and later a newspaper columnist. He is credited with introducing European themes to Irish poetry, and is wi ...

, and

Liam Ó Muirthile Liam Ó Muirthile (15 November 1950 – 18 May 2018) was a prominent Irish-language poet who also wrote plays and novels, he was also a journalist. Ó Muirthile originally came to the fore as a member of a group of poets from University College Co ...

, as well as eighteenth-century poet Aindrias Mac Craith and seventeenth-century poet

Eoghan Ruadh Mac an Bhaird Eoghan Ruadh Mac an Bhaird (c. 1600 – c. 1610?) Gaelic-Irish Bardic poet. Eoghan Ruadh was a member of the Mac an Bhaird clan of professional poets, originally from County Galway with a more notable branch settling in County Donegal in the 14t ...

. The Gloaming won the Meteor Choice Music Prize for 2014 Irish Album of the Year for their first album. They won the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Traditional Track, for ''Samhradh Samhradh'', which appeared on the first album. In 2019 they were nominated for three RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards: Best Original Folk Track, Best Folk Group and Best Folk Album. Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh was nominated for Best Folk Instrumentalist. Iarla Ó Lionáird won the Best Folk Singer award.

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