Music : Alfi & The Duncairn Creative Collective
Talk : Professor John Barry : ‘Hope, agency and revolution in the face of the planetary crisis’
The Duncairn’s 100 Club is a mix of arts & activism, each evening’s musical and poetry lineup provides a backdrop to discussion of a chosen topic. Audiences are limited to 100 and seated at long tables, with free wine and food provided to help foster a sense of community.
Multi-award winning trio Alfi is the collaborative project of musicians Fiachra Meek, Ryan McAuley and Alannah Thornburgh. Featuring an unusual line-up of harp, five string banjo and uilleann pipes, Alfi explores a combination of traditional Irish and Appalachian music and song.
Nominated for ‘Best Emerging Folk Artist’ at the RTE Folk Awards 2022, Alfi have also received numerous accolades including the ‘US Embassy Creative Minds Award’, The ‘Caoimhin O Dochartaigh Award’ at Imbolc International Music Festival and Molloy Award at “Birmingham TradFest”. The trio released their EP ‘Wolves in the Woods’ in 2019 to great critical acclaim, following the release with a successful tour around Ireland and the UK. Alfi will release their debut album Say Old Man in Spring 2023.
The Duncairn Creative Collective is our collaborative project which brings together Ireland’s most exciting young talent to create new work. They’ve been blowing away audiences since the project has begun and the best thing is, it’s different every time!
Prof John Barry is Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action at Queen's University Belfast, Co-Chair of the Belfast Climate Commission and a Rep for UCU He is passionate, knowledgeable and engaging which means he’s the perfect fit for our 100 Club.