Film & Talk: It’s a Fine Thing to Sing with Filmmaker Bob Gallagher

Irish Filmmaker Bob Gallagher joins us to present this music documentary about the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle.

When singers Ian Lynch (Lankum), Ye Vagabonds and The Henry Girls are invited to create their own interpretations of songs from the Inishowen Song Project, the audience is invited into a vast collection of local singers and songs, documented over 40 years from within the community itself.

Framed within the stunning landscape of this area of north Donegal, these new performances, atmospheric archival recordings, and interviews with key community figures, demonstrate how songs pass from singer to singer, while also asking the question of why we sing.

Features singers Ian Lynch of the band Lankum, Ye Vagabonds, and the Henry Girls alongside Clonmany and Buncrana singers from the Inishowen Peninsula.

Bob Gallagher is a multi award winning director, writer and cinematographer, described as a ‘good soldier of cinema’ by Werner Herzog, and as ‘one of the nation’s premiere creative forces in the visual arts’ by Totally Dublin. He has directed drama and documentary short films, award-winning commercials and has created some of the most iconoclastic music videos to emerge from Ireland in recent years, working with artists such as Gilla Band, Villagers, and Lankum.