Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi to headline Liberty Hall gig in aid of Ruhama and Sonas

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi are playing a joint headliner at Liberty Hall on Thursday October 17 in aid of Ruhama and Sonas.

Tickets are priced from €35.00 and doors will open at 7pm.

The gig is being organised by Draíocht na Life and will be a charity fundraiser  in aid of Ruhama who work in "Fighting Sexual Exploitation, Prostitution & Human Trafficking"  and Sonas whose aim  is to deliver  "Freedom from Domestic Violence".

American folk musician Rhiannon Giddens has worked with Beyoncé on her ninth solo no. 1 single 'Texas Hold 'Em'.

Giddens  who is Limerick based, has had a longstanding working relationship with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi,  a Turin-born musician whose Dublin base reflects his global sensibilities.

Through a chance musical meet-up in Ireland, the pair meshed  Giddens' 19th century American Minstrel banjo tunes and Turrisi’s traditional Sicilian Tamburello (Tambourine) rhythms together.

The duo's latest release, They’re Calling Me Home  took home the Grammy Award for “Best Folk Album”.

The twelve-track album was recorded with Turrisi in Ireland during the recent lockdown; it speaks of the longing for the comfort of home as well as the metaphorical “call home” of death, which had been a tragic reality for so many during the COVID-19 crisis.

Turrisi and Giddens has previously collaborated on the Grammy nominated There is no Other  in 2019, which was at once a condemnation of “othering” and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience.

There is no Other pulled from a myriad of folk and traditional influences from Africa, the Arab world, Europe, and the Americas.

Tickets for the gig are priced from €35.00 and are available for purchase here.