NightVisiting: Stories and Songs from the Hearth with Lisa Lambe

Plus special guests

Acclaimed Irish folk singer and actor Lisa Lambe makes her
debut in The Helicon with her show NightVisiting
which reconnects the audience to the social role that night time social house
visits once played in our oral traditions and folklore, and in the preservation
of our songs and stories from tender love songs to the bawdy, to songs of loss
and longing. Lisa will collaborate with renowned local musicians and performers
to create an evening celebrating the old songs, stories and tunes from around
the hearth.

In the west, night visiting is known as ‘Bothántaíocht’ or
‘Cuairtaíocht’; in the southern counties it is known as going ‘Scoraíochting’.
Other counties talk of a visit to the Rambling House. Night visiting was an important part of our
social society and culture, which began to fade with the electrification of Ireland
in the late 1940s when the hearth slowly gave way to the ballroom, the public
house and the dance hall.

NightVisiting is a
celebration and a reimagining of those nights of sharing the old songs and
stories, and is the perfect fit for The Helicon at HomePlace!