Described as ‘spontaneous, alive and affecting’, The Haar bring traditional Irish music to ‘devastatingly beautiful’ life. Combining poetic storytelling with stunning instrumental skills, they spin their own distinctive magic with age-old materials.

Sophisticated and cinematic, experience an evening of ancient tales and landscapes reimagined by The Haar on their debut Australian tour.

“The Haar conjuring magic that had long been hidden in plain sight, responding melodically in a mesmerising impromptu arc of artistry.” — Irish Music Magazine

The Haar brings the fresh talent of traditional Irish singer Molly Donnery combined with three of the most exciting instrumentalists on the folk and traditional music circuit: Adam Summerhayes (fiddle), Murray Grainger (accordion), Cormac Byrne (bodhrán).

The band has its origins in a chance meeting between Adam, Cormac and Molly at a trad session at Craiceann Bodhrán Festival, Inis Oírr, resulting in an improvised live performance recorded by the shipwreck of the Plassey on the wild Atlantic seafront. It was to become typical of the unique ‘live reactive composition’ that characterises their music. With the addition of master accordionist Grainger, they entered the studio at the end of 2019 to record their debut album ’The Haar’ with no plans or arrangements, guided only by the live musical landscapes they created – the music was recorded as it flowed, often in the first and only take.