Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O'Leary

Following the hand of fate which guided them from a remote village in the Austrian Alps to a tiny island in Greece, long time musical collaborators and world wanderers, Irish traditional singer and musician Nuala Kennedy and Dubliner / New Yorker singer songwriter Eamon O'Leary have created an atmospheric album of songs entitled Hydra (2024). Noted for their instrumental skills and songwriting as well as a rich tapestry of traditional song; Nuala and Eamon recorded Hydra in a spacious open room inside the old carpet factory, whose windows open onto the Aegean Sea. Here they present a timeless selection of stories of the sea, of love and courtship, of work and ritual, of emigration, of war, Hydra reverberates with a sense of space, and a palpable delight in place and storytelling.