Zoé Basha:

Zoé Basha is a Leitrim-based musician, composer and carpenter, of French-American origins. Drawing from her background as a traditional singer influenced and inspired by the multiple cultures embedded in her sound, Zoé Basha blends traditional Appalachian, Occitan and Irish singing with Piedmont blues and jazz. Accompanied by musicians Erin Hennessey on fiddle and Anna Mullarkey on keys, performances are an ensemble of traditional songs and original compositions: instruments toying with each other and voices booming with intimate and unexpected harmonies, wilderness and dynamic fervour.

After growing up between the U.S. and France, then studying as a vocalist at Berklee College of Music in Boston where she focused primarily on blues and jazz, Zoé moved to Ireland and fell into traditional singing in Dublin. In a milieu blending political dissent, feminism, queer theory and traditional music, she made her home. Since then, she has been working on both music and carpentry between Ireland and France.
From 2019 to 2023, Zoé was a member of vocal trio Rufous Nightjar, with collaborators
Anna Mieke Bishop and Branwen Kavanagh.
In 2023, Zoé was selected by Music Network and glór Arts Centre as the RESONATE musician-in-residence, to continue development of new works blending airs and style of Irish traditional song, rhythm and harmonies of Occitan polyphonic singing, and the sway and singing technique of Appalachian ballads, with blues and jazz music.

Aina Tulier:

2007, Aina discovers the world of trad music. First, Irish music with the bodhrán, attending many sessions in France and Ireland, where she could get many advices from Johnny 'Ringo' McDonagh (De Dannan) or Seamus O'Kane. This allowed her to occasionally guest for gigs with Maurice Lennon or with the bands "A Spurious Tale" or "The Jeremiahs".
2010, Aina starts to play Swedish music with the Nyckelharpa, which will then be her main instrument, and trained (lessons and workshops) with many teachers from Sweden and Europe.

While living in Ireland in 2015, she taught French trad dancing in Dublin, and started to play the Fiddle. Her "nyckelharpistic" skills, and many workshops there allowed her to quickly reach a reasonable level to play in Irish trad sessions, old time sessions and French trad "boeufs" (jams). She started to sing traditional French/Occitan songs as well.

In 2018, she started the Boha (Gascon bagpipe) while living in Gascony.
In 2019, after a 2 years preparation with Xavier Vidal, she successfully got the
Musical Studies Diploma in Traditional Music from the Conservatoire de Musique de Toulouse and the Occitan Center of Traditional Music and Dance (COMDT).

2019-2020, Aina works part-time in the COMDT, making the link between scholars and trad music (Artistic Education). She also works at the archives and resource centre for the traditional song, instrumental music, dance and culture of Occitanie.

Since 2021, Aina gives nyckelharpa workshops.

Aina occasionally plays with street art troupes (Cie Alchymère, Cie Tan Elleil), as a guest in many formations, works with different bands for album recordings and since 2018, works on different projects (concert and dancing music) such as Clica Dròna, Nøkkenoc, Abelhas, BoHadas, La Chimère, VA!...