Varo

Our latest Off the Shelf guests are Dublin duo Varo, featuring Consuelo Nerea Breschi and Lucie Azconaga. In this series, we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves in their homes and discuss them, a form of storytelling through objects. Varo recently released their highly anticipated new album, The World That I Knew, featuring some of the biggest names in Ireland’s contemporary folk and trad scene.

For their second album, The World That I Knew, Dublin-based duo Varo perform alongside a revolving cast of collaborators including members of Lankum, John Francis Flynn, Alannah Thornburg, Junior Brother, Lemoncello, Niamh Bury, Anna Mieke and more, picked judiciously from that fertile Dublin scene, and fostered by the sterling production of John ‘Spud’ Murphy. They track contemporary concerns through traditional song, and do so with beauty and fierce compassion.

Taken from their highly-anticipated collaborative new album, The World That I Knew, listen to Varo’s latest single, Sweet Liberty, on which they are joined by Ian Lynch of Lankum.

Taken from their forthcoming collaborative album, The World That I Knew, Dublin-based duo VARO share their latest single and video, Green Grows the Laurel, featuring John Francis Flynn.

Dublin-based duo VARO announce their new album, The World That I Knew, feat. Ian Lynch, John Francis Flynn, Anna Mieke, Alannah Thornburgh, Junior Brother, Lemoncello, Niamh Bury and more. Watch the video for their lead single ‘Red Robin’ ft. Alannah Thornburgh.

Our Song of the Day comes from composer and performer Antoni O’Breskey with “Eighteen Years Old”. Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Blessed Sadness’, it features a talented array of musicians including the enchanting vocals of his daughter Consuelo Nerea Breschi of Varo.

Varo are to perform a live set online from two iconic traditional pubs in Dublin, The Cobblestone, Smithfield, and Walsh’s Pub, Stoneybatter, as part of St. Patrick’s Festival 2021.

Quiet Lights brings the next in their series of online events – ‘VARO live from Connolly’s of Leap’ – this was the Dublin-based duo’s first time in this iconic venue. Watch the performance in full now.

Composer and pianist Antoni O’Breskey, shares new live video for The Wee Weaver featuring a brilliant cast of musicians including his daughter Consuelo Nerea Breschi of Varo.

Taken from their debut self-titled album, watch Dublin-based trad duo Varo performing Streets of Forbes, an Australian folk song they learned from June Tabor’s album ‘Ashes and Diamonds’.

Dublin-based duo Varo announce collaborative project with members of Lankum, Anna Mieke, Landless, Junior Brother, Slow Moving Clouds, Inni-K and more.

Like Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds and Lankum, Varo share a deep understanding of traditional music, preserving the genre’s heritage with the need to create a form of music that is fresh and new. This accomplished debut should position them at the forefront of the scene.