An evening with Claudia Schwab at Cafe No9

Event information

Sligo-based Austrian violinist/singer/yodeler/loop-artist and composer Claudia Schwab has performed on numerous recordings and collaborated with a range of cross-genre artists both established and emerging. She has published three CDs of original work in 2014 (Amber Sands), 2017 (Attic Mornings), and 2024 (Went To Walk), which received a variety of excellent reviews by magazines and radio stations. She was commissioned to write for the National Concert Hall in collaboration with STF in 2019 and was awarded a Next Generation Bursary Award from the Irish Arts Council (2019), the Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis 2019 with the Band “Shreefpunk + Strings” and a Hubert Von Goisern Förderpreis (2020). Alongside her solo show Claudia currently performs with the Claudia Schwab Quartet, Plúirín na mBan (feat. Cathy Jordan & Irene Buckley), Los Hostes (feat. Matija Solce & Aleš Zorec), Trio Hupsala (feat. Johannes Bär & Vinzenz Härtel), the Irish Gamelan Orchestra, the Kate Young Quintet and Cathy Jordan´s Crankie Island Song Project. Her tours have brought her all across Europe, over to India, Indonesia, Egypt, Canada and the US, with performances at renown festivals and venues such as Umefolk Festival (SE), Shrewsbury Folk Festival (UK), Rudolstadt World Music Festival (DE), Vienna Concert Hall (AT), Fleadh TV (IRE), Viljandi Folk Music Festival (ET), National Concert Hall Dublin (IRE), Body&Soul Festival (IRE), Cairo Jazz Festival (EGY), Vicar Street (IRE), Stallet Folk Club (SE), Kadikoy Sessions (TU), Kino Šiška (SI), Sargfabrik (AT), Les Polysons Festival (BE), Wien Kultursommer (AT), Viru Folk (ET), Dublin Fringe Festival (IRE) and Performing Arts Forum (IRE).

About the show:
As a solo artist Claudia Schwab's masterful use of fiddle, loops, drones, piano and vocals, allows her to weave together funk-beat yodels, reels turned to ragas, and alpine harmonies, to create an undeniably unique and atmospheric world of sound: with a fondness for yodelling, Irish traditional, Indian classical and Eastern European music, Claudia makes musical advances around the world, mesmerising audiences with her authenticity, versatility and vitality.

Claudia's recent compositions, born out of solitary forest, seaside and mountain dwellings during the periods of lock down, mark a return to the origins of her composing practices: a world of sound that she could create, and retreat to, entirely on her own. Never shy of crossing borders between genres, traditions and conventions, an introspective body of folk-inspired songs with experimental elements tells of unfinished love stories, the yearning to be left alone, or diverse “what if” scenarios of re-crafting our lifestyles. A masterful blend that demands attention!

Press quotes:
"a sonic triumph" (John Reed, Friday Folk Radio)
"pretty much unforgettable" (David Kidman, FATEA magazine)
“crazy and yet strangely attractive” (froots magazine)

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Please note this ticket price DOES include a BYOB fee should you wish to bring alcohol to the venue.

All additional purchases of drinks and sweet treats from the cafe counter are always very much appreciated.