Ruth McGill // Alma Kelliher // Ruth Smith

presents:

an eclectic evening of music in the Church of Ireland Portumna. Join Ruth Smith, Alma Kelliher and Ruth McGill for an engaging and uplifting set of folk, contemporary, jazz, classical and traditional music in an intimate setting. Inspired by the tradition of close harmony singing and story songs The Shoreline Set brings a fusion of Old Time American, Irish Folk and contemplative contemporary songs that celebrate and praise in word and beautiful melodies. This atmospheric gig is not to be missed, and there'll be a few treats in store with local singers joining the set. If you love music you'll want to hear what The Shoreline Set have in store. Please support local talent and be part of a special evening of music and song in the heart of Portumna.

Date: Friday 23rd September

Venue: Church of Ireland

Time: 9.30pm

Admission: €10

We have SOLD OUT of our online quantity of tickets for The Shoreline Set. There will be about 40 tickets available to purchase on the door - come early to avoid disappointment.

Who are the Performers?

Ruth Smith

Ruth is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where she studied Music, Drama & Theatre Studies and gained a HDipEd in Music and English teaching.

She studied piano for 10 years with Deirdre Doyle in the Royal Irish Academy of music andhas secured teaching diplomas in both Piano (RIAM) and Trad Fiddle (TTCT CCE). She has most recently completed an MA in Trad Performance from the University of Limerick.

Ruth divides her time between performing and teaching. She has worked with Loose Canon Theatre Company, Randolf SD The Company and at the Abbey Theatre and performed with ‘thisispopbaby’ at the Electric Picnic and in the Spiegeltnent, Dubin Fringe Festival.

Her recent work as a singer includes Pop Céilí for Dublin Fringe Festival 2011, (with Alma Kelliher, Ruth McGill and Megan Riordan) & The Two Ruths, alongside her right hand woman Ruth McGill at The Dublin Fringe Festival 2010. Ruth sings and plays with Ruth McGill and Helena Walsh as part of a professional Wedding Music service, Married to Music. www.marriedtomusic.weebly.com

The Shoreline Set has come from a combined interest in close vocal harmony and a love of story songs.

Ruth is delighted to be working with Alma Kelliher and Ruth McGill on this project and bringing their first performance as The Shoreline Set to her home town of Portumna.

Alma Kelliher
Sound Designer and Composer

Alma Kelliher has a BA in Music from Trinity College, Dublin and an MSc in Sound Design from Edinburgh University. She studied Organ to diploma level with the London College of Music and Media and is currently a member of the Rough Magic SEEDS Programme 2010-11.

Previous theatre credits include sound for Plaza Suite (Rough Magic 11), the development of Jacques Cousteau is in the Silent World, (Making Strange 10) and the productions: Dead Cat Bounce… Too Fast For Love (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 10), Missing (Project Brand New 10), Basin (Anu Productions, Dublin Fringe Festival 09), Dead Cat Bounce… Wired (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 09) Extremities (Spark to a Flame 09), Zillah (The Headphone Theatre Project, Edinburgh 08), and as assistant sound designer and composer on Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre, London, 10) Sodome My Love, The Importance of Being Earnest and Phaedra (Rough Magic, 10).

Previous film and television work include The Incredible Shrinking Office (New Star Fish Enterprises), The Holiday Show (Trilogy Media, TV3), Lullaby (Barry Reddin dir.), The House and Veronique (both Timesnap Productions). Musical Director of Pop Céilî, an eight piece music fusion group. Also created a collection of music inspired by the book Magician by Raymond E Feist in 2007.

Ruth McGill

Ruth McGill is from Donegal and is a classically trained singer and actress.

She graduated from the Professional Acting Course at Trinity College Dublin and her most recent theatre work includes a musical work-shopping of Deirdre by W.B.Yeats with the Composer Conor Linehan and director Selina Cartmell (The Abbey Theatre),  Alice in Funderland (ThisisPopBaby – Rehaearsed reading/performance of a new musical-in-development at The Project Arts Centre), Freefall (Corn Exchange Theatre Company), for which she received an Irish Times Theatre Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Christ Deliver Us (The Abbey Theatre), The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant (The Abbey Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Corn Exchange Theatre Company),  MacBecks: The Musical (Olympia Theatre),  Everybody Loves Sylvia (Randolf SD), All in the Timing (Bewley’s Café Theatre), The Turn of the Screw (Storytellers), Can you catch a Mermaid? (Pavillion Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Gate Theatre) & The Shaughraun (The Albery Theatre, London). TV & Film credits include Love/Hate, Leap Year and The Clinic.

Ruth also studied and trained as a soprano with Dr. Veronica Dunne at The Royal Irish Academy of Music and will commence studying for her H.Dip in Music Education this September at The Leinster School of Music, Griffith College Dublin.

Her recent work as a singer includes Pop Céilí  at The Electric Picnic, and Dublin Fringe Festival 2010 & 2011, supporting The Rubberbandits at The Button Factory and The Two Ruths, alongside her good friend Ruth Smith at The Dublin Fringe Festival 2010.

A founding member of the cabaret company; Songspiel, Ruth also offers a Wedding Music service with her company, Married to Music (www.marriedtomusic.weebly.com)