Culture Night at Olivier Cornet Gallery - Friday 17 September 2021

Aisling Conroy’s solo show ALTER / ALTAR can be seen 

- from 11 am to 7pm

- from 8pm to 10pm

Visit https://www.oliviercornetgallery.com/aisling-conroy-alter-altar for details about the exhibition.

If you can't come to the gallery to see this beautiful exhibition, have a look at it from the comfort of your home: enjoy ALTER / ALTAR in our virtual space.

[Post event: click here to watch the streamed version of the gig on the gallery's Facebook page. You can also watch it on CUA's YouTube page and on the Olivier Cornet Gallery's YouTube channel.]

The artist has invited the band CUA to perform at the gallery from 7pm to 8pm. Please note that the gig is now FULLY BOOKED and that the gallery will be closed from 7pm to 8pm. i.e during the performance. We are hoping to see you before the gig or after 8pm. For those staying at home, the performance will be streamed live on our gallery's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/oliviercornet.gallery/

About CUA:

Cua have spent the time of lock-down continuing to record remotely and have just released their third track from their upcoming album. The new song is entitled No Sequel, following in the footsteps of The Guiser's Fancy (31st Oct 2020) & Sunrise (22nd Jan 2021). Previous releases have been their album, In Flight Off The Islands, in 2019 following hot on the footsteps of 2017’s epic Songs Of The Hollow, again to critical acclaim.

John Davidson, Shane Booth & Ros O'Meara bring together dynamic and contrasting instrumentation and vocal arrangements. The group have an expansive acoustic soundtrack blending guitars, fiddle, bouzouki, percussion and 3 part harmony arrangements to create a world music folk styling that the group call Atlantean. Soaring melody lines, dirgy, intense a capella vocals and complex rhythmic structures will have the blood pumping through even the coldest of auditoriums. The cua live experience has been compared to the melodic intricacies of Planxty combined with the harmony skills of Crosby, Stills and Nash.

In the last few years cua have played 3 UK tours, two sold out shows at Celtic Connections, released two 15-track albums and most recently closed out Seán Rocks' Arena outside broadcast live from Dublin Castle and last week a sold out show at The Pepper Canister Church as part of Templebar Tradfest.

cua truly pride themselves on their diversity, with subtle nods to many genres, whilst keeping a folk, world, roots and traditional line throughout. All members are multi-instrumentalists and are inspired by many aspects of the musical spectrum including roots, blues, gospel, jazz fusion, traditional, bluegrass and more. Their approach to music is inspired by the history, landscape and peoples of the Atlantic areas.

cua have been recognised on a european and national level following their first two successful studio releases and are receiving national and local radio airplay in Scotland, England, Ireland, America, France, Holland, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the US. The group have shared the bill with Andy Irvine, The Furey’s, Hazel O’Connor, Paddy Casey and The 4 Of Us to name but a few.

“An unclassifiable band that weave together different musics into something that is their own, crackling with life, energy and spark.”

Marc Higgins - Fatea Records