Aoife and Deirdre Granville

Aoife and Deirdre Granville grew up in a bilingual home in the town of Dingle, Co Kerry, where they learned much of their music. Aoife is a flute player and fiddler as well as singer and currently works at the Folklore Department at University College Cork. She was appointed to the Arts Council in 2022 and is currently recording her third solo album.

Deirdre is a harpist, flute player and singer and released her first solo album Imram a few years ago. She is a board member of Harp Ireland and a secondary school music teacher in Dingle. Deirdre was recently awarded an artistic residency at Centre Culturel Paris, where she completed a compositional project.

Aoife and Deirdre recently recorded duet tracks on Beauty an Oileáin, a collection of music and song from the Blasket Islands recorded by descendants of islanders. They have just completed the recording of a duet album which will soon be released. Aoife and Deirdre’s music and interpretation of songs have been shaped considerably by the traditions of West Kerry.