Imogen Gunner / Rose Connolly

Imogen Gunner and Rose Connolly are multi-instrumentalists, composers and vocalists. Having performed together regularly in a range of venues across Dublin over the past year or so, Sunday 1st March sees Gunner and Connolly perform a set of original work, comprising instrumentals and songs, with beautifully blended harmony vocals, and instrumentals informed by a deeply rooted love of traditional music, plus jazz, old-time and improvisation.

Imogen Gunner: Fiddle, voice, harp

Musician, composer, songwriter, performer, folklorist and educator, Imogen’s compositions have featured on RTE television and radio and most recently in a BBC Radio 4 documentary about the AFRI Famine Walk with her piece ‘Turned Away’.

As a multi instrumentalist she has toured internationally at SXSW, Glastonbury, WOMAD, and nationally at the Abbey Theatre. Imogen collaborates with Poetry Ireland’s poet in residence Catherine Ann Cullen, with whom she won the Business to Arts Docklands Art Fund Award for children’s songwriting project - ' Street Songs and Sea Shanties for the 21st Century’. In December 2019 Imogen presented and performed solo work at the ‘Hän- Equality, Culture and Women’ conference held in conjunction with the International Gender Equality Prize in Tampere, Finland. Imogen is particularly interested in the voices and representation of women in folklore and traditional song, and her musical work reflects this. She has collaborated musically with Martin Rushent (Human League), Kevin O’Connell, Phamie Gow, Kenneth Edge, Thomas Johnston, Mary Barnecutt and Lioba Petrie.

Rose Connolly - Piano, voice, guitar, banjo, ukulele

Rose Connolly is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and composer, currently studying composition at RIAM, Dublin, with Kevin O'Connell and Jonathan Nangle. Rose is current winner of the @findingavoice competition for Emerging Women Composers in partnership with The Contemporary Music Centre. Her winning entry, ‘Beyond the Lake’, will be performed by Dr. Anne-Marie Farrell in Clonmel on the 8th of March. Having grown up in an extremely musical family from Co. Fermanagh, Rose has been performing both solo and in groups since an early age. A prolific composer across genres, in 2017 Rose was apprentice to composer Simon Mawhinney, at Queen’s University Belfast, and has recently composed work for the Canton Saxophone Quartet, Ailbhe McDonagh, Dave Collins, and Dublin Brass Week. Upcoming projects include a piano series for American Jazz pianist Peter Martin, and her own new solo piano series.

Imogen Gunner and Rose Connolly perform a set of their original work, joined by fiddler Emma Maguire at the Finding a Voice Festival at 3pm on Sunday the 8th March and perform a monthly residency in the Hut, Phibsborough from Saturday 14th March.

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Venue Information - The Workman's Club

Run by people passionate about music, our venue welcomes performers of all flavours. Alongside the headline gigs, The Workman’s Club is home to some of the capital’s finest club, comedy, acoustic and new band showcase nights.

The striking old-school decor makes it a popular choice for parties, launches, screenings, book readings and multimedia takeovers, as well as photo, video and movie shoots.