Lisa Lambe and Rachael Sage Will Come to the Irish Arts Center

On May 9-10, Irish singer, actor, and songwriter Lisa Lambe (of Celtic Women) will make an exhilarating return to Irish Arts Center for performances of work from her second solo album. Alt-pop artist Rachael Sage, acclaimed for her "rich vocals, sparkling piano and yearning poetry" (Time Out New York), will perform songs from her upcoming acoustic album, PseudoMyopia (May 23) as part of Irish Arts Center's SongLives series showcasing Ireland and North America's most exciting contemporary singer-songwriters.

LISA LAMBE
May 9-10, 8pm
$24 general / $20 members

The luminous and soulful Lisa Lambe (Celtic Woman; Jimmy's Hall, Abbey Theatre) returns to Irish Arts Center to perform music from her latest worldwide release.

SONGLIVES: RACHAEL SAGE
Curated by Susan McKeon
Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 8:00pm
$15 general / $12 member

For this iteration of SongLives, a series showcasing singer-songwriters and bringing the rich tradition of busking on Dublin's Grafton Street to the cozy confines of IAC's Donaghy Theatre, alt-rock iconoclast Rachael Sage performs music from her beautiful new acoustic album, PseudoMyopia. Join us for an evening with a renowned singer-songwriter who's shared stages with Judy Collins, Shawn Colvin, The Animals, and Ani DiFranco.

Irish Arts Center, founded in 1972, is a national and international home for artists and audiences of all backgrounds who share a passion for the evolving arts and culture of contemporary Ireland and Irish America. Based in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, we present, develop, support, promote, tour, and distribute work from both established and emerging artists and cultural practitioners, providing audiences access to cultural experiences that are innovative, collaborative, diverse, authentic, emotionally and intellectually transporting, meet the highest standards of excellence, and celebrate our common humanity. Steeped in the grassroots traditions of our communities, with a commitment to inclusion that dates back to our founding, we provide community education programs and access to the arts for adults and children of all ages and ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and an international home for the Irish community to come together and engage with a dynamic global diaspora.

Recent music projects include a national tour of Declan O'Rourke's Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine, featuring a nine-piece ensemble including John Sheahan, Caitríona Frost, and Dermot Byrne; Masters in Collaboration series featuring unique collaborations between Cassandra Wilson and Liam Ó Maonlaí, Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, and Aoife O'Donovan and Karan Casey; residencies featuring Camille O'Sullivan, Martin Hayes, Julie Feeney; and solo performances by David Keenan, Inni-K, Loah, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, and Utsav Lal. Theatre presentations include Mikel Murfi's The Man in the Woman's Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice, Company SJ's acclaimed Beckett in the City, thisispopbaby's Riot: The Show, and the Obie-Award winning production of Lippy by Dead Centre (Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd). Dance performances include the Bessie-Award winning Darrah Carr Dance, Colin Dunne's Concert, and New Dance Ireland: Choreographers of Nowness at the 92 Street Y. The Center has also been home to visual artists such as Dannielle Tegeder, Colin Davidson, Mairead McCormick and John Minihan, and literature and humanities events including such figures as Belinda McKeon, Nick Laird, Paul Muldoon, Sharon Olds, Stuart Bailie, and Ambassador Samantha Power.

In 2018, we broke ground on a landmark new permanent home schedule to open in 2020, including a state of the art contemporary, flexible performance and arts space for the presentation and development of work across a range of disciplines; a second, intimate performance space-the renovated historic Irish Arts Center theatre-optimized for the most intimate live music and conversation, recordings, master classes and special events; classrooms and studio spaces for community education programs in Irish music, dance, language, history, and the humanities; technology to stream and distribute the Irish Arts Center experience on the digital platform; a spacious avenue-facing café lobby that will be a hub for artistic and community hospitality, providing a vibrant setting for conversation and interaction between artists and audiences; and a beautiful new courtyard entrance on 51st Street where the historic Irish Arts Center and the new building meet.

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