In the build-up to a night of music celebrating the life of much-loved Donegal artist, Aengus Friel Lawrence, aka Shammen Delly, on Saturday night, 23^rd July in the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, the festival is premiering a 30-minute concert highlight video featuring Aengus. In 2021 Distanced Perspectives presented a concert in the grounds of Fanad Lighthouse which provided a stunning backdrop to the music of Brigid Mae Power, Súil Amháín and the late Shammen Delly. The video will premiere on YouTube this Wednesday, 20^th July at 9pm.

Distanced Perspectives, co-curated by one of Ireland’s leading selectors, Cian Ó Cíobháin, at Fanad Lighthouse in July 2021, brought together three distinct contemporary Irish acts from the edges of the nation to the edge of Ireland’s most northerly county, Brigid Mae Power, Súil Amhain and Shammen Delly. Brigid Mae Power paints expansive songs that are effortless, hypnotic and folk-oriented like Judee Sill, Bill Callahan and Sharon Van Etten.

The third album from the celebrated singer/songwriter, ‘Head Above The Water’ is a coming of age opus featuring a ground-breaking amalgamation of traditional folk and country – an engaging blend of strings, bouzouki, piano and Power’s distinctive vocal make this an achingly beautiful body of work. Country and traditional folk rub shoulders, making for a juxtaposition of threads, with added instrumentation from five musicians lured into the studio to provide larger dynamics.

Súil Amháin is a Kerry rapper emerging from a collaboration with renowned producer Bantum as part of an online exhibition ‘Cogar’ curated by artist Áine Ní Chíobháin for Other Voices festival.

The late Donegal electronic/ambient artist/music producer Aengus Friel (RIP) worked under the moniker Shammen Delly performing and producing for live events throughout the island of Ireland working site specifically and collaboratively to create unique immersive experiences.

Originally from west Kerry, but based in Galway, DJ and broadcaster Cian Ó Cíobháin has been presenting world-renowned, alternative music radio show An Taobh Tuathail on RTÉ RnaG since 1999. The Quietus has described Cian as “the Irish John Peel … his laid-back manner, combined with the eclectic and astonishing mix of sounds played on the programme, make him more worthy of the mantle than any other DJ ..in Britain or elsewhere today.”