Trad + live performance

We are delighted that the screening will feature a post-film live traditional music performance on stage from Trad’s star Megan Nic Fhionnghaile

Winner of the Audience Award at the Galway Film Fleadh, Trad is a film about the value of tradition as much as it is about the need to deviate from it. Shona (Megan Nic Fhionnghaile) is a fiddle prodigy, but is pulling away from the confines of her mother and the local music scene in Donegal. A spark flies from a troupe of anarchic musicians (including Aidan Gillen) and she and her brother soon find themselves on a tour across Ireland’s rural clubs and pubs, a journey neither will forget.

From the director of Black ’47 Lance Daly, this is a film full of the pleasures of music and the invitation to our grandest selves it offers. Part road movie, part coming-of-age story, but playing very much its own tune, it features some brilliant musical turns as a star-making performance from Megan Nic Fhionnghaile.