At the end of the summer, a group of musicians that included Glen Hansard (The Frames), Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Bitch Falcon, and a number of the Begley family: Seamus, Brendan, Cormac and Maeve travelled around Ireland with The Footsbarn Travelling Theatre, one of the world’s leading touring companies that began life in Cornwall in 1971. Music, theatre and poetry were taken to four remote spots including a very wet field west of Dingle…
Filmmaker Myles O’Reilly (arbutusyarns.net) whose work we have previously shared on Folk Radio UK was on hand to document the fun and madness. He recently finished putting the film together which has been given the title ‘Come On Up To The House – The Movie’.
It seems like as good a time as any, to mention that those of you that have been following Myles and his invaluable work will be pleased to know that he has more on the way…
“I have a dream to pack light and travel the length and breadth of Ireland looking for musicians, their songs and stories, to bring you one music documentary per month.” To help meet this goal he has set up a Patreon page here where you can help support him in continuously cataloguing the musical beauty that exists in Ireland.
You can watch the ‘Come On Up To The House – The Movie’ in full for the next 10 days. In return for viewing please donate to a charity that they are supporting this year, Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH was established in 2013 to provide services to people in homeless situations. They do not receive any government funding and are 100% volunteer run).
You can donate by visiting here: https://www.ichh.ie/
Find out more about Arbutus Yarns here: https://arbutusyarns.net/