On Home Ground

Robyn is honoured to have been asked to perform at the upcoming On Home Ground Festival, which celebrates the life and works of the late Seamus Heaney.

Playing as part of the New Bards on Saturday 13 September, Robyn will join Best Boy Grip and Oh Volcano at Laurel Villa.

The official program states:

Introduced by music journalist and CEO of Oh Yeah Music Centre Stuart Baillie. Featuring: Best Boy Grip, Robyn G Shiels, Oh Volcano.

Seamus Heaney often remarked that he wished he had gone to more concerts. As a wordsmith, music endlessly fascinated him, and there was no line for him between poetry and songwriting. So welcome to the New Bards On Home Ground, a line up of locally sourced musicians & bands whose lyrics are poetic, whose music is authentic, and whose hearts are pure County Derry. Oh Volcano is Bellaghy brothers Owen and Enda Strathern (formerly of General Fiasco), Robyn G Shiels is from Kilrea, with James Heaney, Seamus’ nephew, on banjo, and Eoin O’Callaghan is Best Boy Grip, a songwriter from Derry City. We didn’t ask Eminem. Maybe next year?

For more information go to OnHomeGround.com