Ultan O’Brien & Martin Green

Myself and Martin share an adventurous spirit when it comes to exploring musical boundaries. We have created a music and storytelling show during our time in Leitrim. This is a collage of pre-famine Irish tunes, morris dance tunes, storytelling, electronics, and folk horror. The peculiar stories and music of this show emanate from the history and practice of scordatura (the alternate tuning of strings to find wild sounds) in Ireland and across the world.

MARTIN GREEN is a multi-award winning musician and Ivor Novello winning composer. As a member of Lau he has won four BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Group an unprecedented four times. In 2015 he was nominated in the Best Musician category. In 2014 he received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in recognition of his talent as a composer. In 2019 he won the Ivor Novello award for his sound walk “Aeons” that was part of The Great Exhibition of the North. Born into a family of traditional music and trained by Bert Santilly, one of the contemporary accordion world’s most respected teachers, Martin gained a strong grounding in numerous styles and techniques at an early age, including spending time in Hungary with some of the leading lights in Balkan and Gypsy music.
Martin’s career as a composer began in 2003 when he was invited to write music for the goliath environmental theatre piece ‘Albatross’ based on Shackleton's journey and including a 40 foot steel ship and full pyrotechnic show. Albatross was the centrepiece of Glastonbury Festival’s Theatre Field in 2004. Martin formed the multi-award winning experimental folk trio Lau in 2005 with Aidan O'Rourke and Kris Drever. The band play almost entirely self- composed material and have a substantial fan base in the UK and internationally. Lau tours and performs regularly in the UK and abroad.

Part of RESONATE: Music Network Artist Residency, in partnership with The Dock. Music Network is funded by the Arts Council