Concerts

Musical Performances at Dublin 2019

We are excited to present a wide variety of musical concerts and performances for your enjoyment at Dublin 2019! Our Second Stage is located in The Liffey B on Level 1 and our Cabaret Stage is located in Wicklow Hall 2 on Level 2 of the Convention Centre Dublin. Additionally, we will be utilizing Warehouse 2, at Point Square, for several concerts.  We are still working on the schedule, but we offer here a preview of several of the events.

We will also be presenting an orchestral concert with the Dublin Worldcon Orchestra on Friday evening – for more information, please visit our Auditorium page.

Second Stage (The Liffey B)

Canticles Productions brings Alexander James Adams at his best with High-Fantasy Storytelling Through Music.  If you love Literature, Art, Music, and Media in fantastical worlds never seen before, then Canticles is for you.  Find us on Patreon to support our amazing family of independent creators, or YouTube, where we will be posting our entire set list so you can sing along with us in a multimedia concert experience in Dublin!

Canticles will be performed twice at Dublin 2019. The full multimedia performance will be held in the Second Stage on Friday at 11:30am, and an acoustic concert will be held in Warehouse 2 on Saturday at 4:30pm.

The Doubleclicks

The Doubleclicks are a folk-pop sibling duo, featuring clever lyrics about dinosaurs, literature, love and the Internet—with a cello, guitar, and meowing kitten keyboard. Their latest CD “Love Problems” debuted at number one on the Billboard comedy albums chart, and they’ve toured the world, at conventions, comedy festivals and more. Their songs and YouTube videos have been viewed over 4 million times and are frequently featured on BoingBoing, Kotaku, the Huffington Post, and on NPR shows “Live Wire” “All Things Acoustic” and “State of Wonder.”

The Doubleclicks will perform twice at Dublin 2019: Friday at 8:30pm on Second Stage, and Sunday at 10:00pm on the Cabaret Stage (Wicklow 2A).

Additional links:
  • YouTube
  • Instagram, Twitter, Facebook: @thedoubleclicks

The Library Bards

The Library Bards are a nerd parody band consisting of Bonnie Gordon (ABC’s The Quest; Cartoon Network; Street Fighter V; Mega Man 11; Geek & Sundry) and Xander Jeanneret (TBS’ King of the Nerds; Announcer in Divekick, Sagas of Sundry; etc.). They take Top 40 hits and transform them into the nerdy versions they should have been in the first place! With their catchy tunes and nerdy lyrics, the @LibraryBards will be bringing you into the #BardLife in no time!

The Library Bards will perform twice at Dublin 2019: Saturday at 8pm on the Second Stage, and Monday at 10:00am on the Cabaret Stage (Wicklow 2A)

Daoirí Farrell

Dublin-born traditional singer and bouzouki player Daoirí (pronounced ‘Derry’) Farrell has been described by some of the biggest names in Irish folk music as one of most important singers to come out of Ireland in recent years.After a promising debut album, The First Turn, back in 2009; Daoirí spent several years studying traditional music and performance across Ireland. While at The University of Limerick Fintan Vallely introduced him to the singing of the late Liam Weldon, an encounter that was to prove formative to his sound and his approach to folk song.

In 2013 he won the All Ireland Champion Singer award at the Fleadh in Co. Derry, and in 2015 won the prestigious Danny Kyle Award at Celtic Connections in Glasgow with the line-up FourWinds.

In February 2017 the BBC announced that Daoirí Farrell had received three BBC Radio 2 Folk Award 2017 nominations – more than any other artist that year. He was subsequently asked to perform at the awards ceremony on 5th April at The Royal Albert Hall – broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 with highlights on BBC4 TV and went on to win the Horizon Award for best newcomer and Best Traditional Track Award for ‘Van Diemen’s Land’ from the album True Born Irishman.

His third album A Lifetime Of Happiness produced by Dónal Lunny was launched on 15th February 2019 with a sold out show at Dublin’s legendary An Goilin Club.

Daoirí Farrell will perform on the Second Stage on Monday at 12:30pm. He will also appear at Closing Ceremonies in the Auditorium on Monday at 4:30pm.

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Cabaret Stage (Wicklow 2A)

Thursday

12:00 pm – Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross (also known as “Miles Vorkosigan” on Facebook, “Admiral Wordsmith” in general fandom, and “Juniper Coeur de Lapin” in the SCA) is a person of several identities who was dragged to a filksing in 1997 by an over-enthusiastic friend, and found the first members of his adopted family in fandom. Today, his songs tend to focus on various media plots, political rants, and true stories from legal situations too crazy to make up. He occasionally performs with a geek band called Possible Side Effects.

1:00pm – Ju Honisch

Ju Honisch holds a degree in history, English language and literature. For a while she lived in Ireland. She writes novels, short stories and songs. Two of her books received literary awards, the “Deutscher Phantastik Preis” (=German Speculative Fiction Award) for „Das Obsidianherz“ (=Obsidian Hearts) and the SERAPH für „Schwingen aus Stein“ (Wings of Stone). Her filk songs also received awards, two SAMS and two Pegasus Awards. Ju’s ballads tell stories and comment life situations. She sees herself in the tradition of the Shannachies (seanchaí).

2:00 pm – Lynn Gold

Lynn Gold has been writing and performing filk and funny music for longer than she likes to publicly admit. She has also run music tracks for many cons, has been a Fan GOH at Loscon, Featured Filker at Leprecon, Interfilk Guest at Conterpoint, Toastmaster at Consonance, and is Chair of Consonance 2020. By day, she’s a Senior Technical Writer at MarkLogic in San Carlos, California, USA. Lynn lives in Mountain View, CA, USA with her Bichon Frise, Grace (as in “Hopper”).

10:00p – Erwin “Filthy Pierre” Strauss

Join Erwin “Filthy Pierre” Strauss for an Old-time Filk Singalong! Return with us now to those glorious days of yesteryear! We’ll sing the glories of Frodo Baggins and the Outer Space Marines, and the miseries of slow elevators and bad banquet food, just like we did in the Sixties and Seventies. With Filthy Pierre Strauss at the keyboard, and words on the big screen, it’s a rollicking good time!

Friday

2:00pm – Natalie Ingram

Natalie Ingram is a guitarist, trombone player, and singer-songwriter. Her songwriting tries to provide a fresh perspective on familiar ideas, and blends genres of folk, country, pop, blues, and swing. Her songs always aim to make you laugh or make you think. She is an active performer in her hometown in BC, Canada. This is her first Worldcon.

3:00pm – Deirdre Murphy

Deirdre Murphy is a long-time fan and filker originally from Chicago. She plans to share some of her own songs as well as some of her favorite sings from that area. Her Patreon is devoted to her writing, including fiction, songs, and poetry, and she can be found on DreamWidth and Twitter as Wyld_Dandelyon as well. So, if you’re looking for a surprise visit from Coyote or something a little less chaotic, you will be welcome.

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Saturday

1:45pm – John McDaid

John G. McDaid is a science fiction writer, folk/filk singer-songwriter, and freelance journalist from Rhode Island. A 1993 Clarion grad, he sold his first short story, the Sturgeon Award-winning “Jigoku no mokushiroku” to Asimov’s in 1995. Since retiring in 2016 from a career in corporate communications, he’s been writing full time and playing at venues around the Northeast US. In 2017, his songs won both the topical and “Iron Filker” contests at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest. Fiction and music are online and he’s currently working on a WWII alternate history novel and an album of original songs.

2:45pm – T.J. Burnside-Clapp

Pegasus Award winning filk artist T.J. Burnside Clapp performs her own songs of fantasy, SF, and humor, along with favorites by her husband, Mitchell Burnside Clapp, and her singing group, Technical Difficulties.

3:30pm – Bed & Breakfast (Bill and Brenda Sutton)

Bed & Breakfast is the duo of Bill and Brenda Sutton. They have performed at SF conventions and in pubs and coffee houses across the US and around the world.

5:00pm – Death Ingloria (Galina Rin)

Death Ingloria: Rock Music, Comic Art and Animation. Death Ingloria explores Humanity’s depths, its heights, and its inevitable conclusions through rock music, comic art and animation.​

Death Ingloria’s debut album The Wolf Onboard is a complete Science Fiction story told across seven songs, a seven page comic book and seven animated videos which play out during Death Ingloria’s performances. The comic is the narration of the story, the songs the voices of the characters.

Each of Death Ingloria’s albums are complete Sci-Fi stories accompanied by an animated comic. At the end of each album Humanity finds inglorious ways to be completely wiped out.

Sunday

10:00a – Sam Watts

Sam Watts (Planet Earth, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Wizards vs Aliens) will perform solo piano arrangements of television soundtracks he has composed, as well as pieces from his recent albums and a Worldcon exclusive debut of music from his upcoming release.

6:00pm – Bed & Breakfast (Bill and Brenda Sutton)

Bed & Breakfast is the duo of Bill and Brenda Sutton. They have performed at SF conventions and in pubs and coffee houses across the US and around the world.

10:00pm – The Doubleclicks

The Doubleclicks are a folk-pop sibling duo, featuring clever lyrics about dinosaurs, literature, love and the Internet—with a cello, guitar, and meowing kitten keyboard. Their latest CD “Love Problems” debuted at number one on the Billboard comedy albums chart, and they’ve toured the world, at conventions, comedy festivals and more. Their songs and YouTube videos have been viewed over 4 million times and are frequently featured on BoingBoing, Kotaku, the Huffington Post, and on NPR shows “Live Wire” “All Things Acoustic” and “State of Wonder.”

The Doubleclicks will perform twice at Dublin 2019: Sunday at 10:00pm on the Cabaret Stage (Wicklow 2A) and Friday at 8:30pm on Second Stage.

Monday

10:00am – The Library Bards

The Library Bards are a nerd parody band consisting of Bonnie Gordon (ABC’s The Quest; Cartoon Network; Street Fighter V; Mega Man 11; Geek & Sundry) and Xander Jeanneret (TBS’ King of the Nerds; Announcer in Divekick, Sagas of Sundry; etc.). They take Top 40 hits and transform them into the nerdy versions they should have been in the first place! With their catchy tunes and nerdy lyrics, the @LibraryBards will be bringing you into the #BardLife in no time!

The Library Bards will perform twice at Dublin 2019: Monday at 10:00am on the Cabaret Stage (Wicklow 2A)  and Saturday at 8pm on the Second Stage.

Warehouse 2 at Point Square

Thursday

4:30pm – John McDaid

John G. McDaid is a science fiction writer, folk/filk singer-songwriter, and freelance journalist from Rhode Island. A 1993 Clarion grad, he sold his first short story, the Sturgeon Award-winning “Jigoku no mokushiroku” to Asimov’s in 1995. Since retiring in 2016 from a career in corporate communications, he’s been writing full time and playing at venues around the Northeast US. In 2017, his songs won both the topical and “Iron Filker” contests at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest. Fiction and music are online at harddeadlines.com and he’s currently working on a WWII alternate history novel and an album of original songs.  http://harddeadlines.com/music

Friday

1:00pm – Brimstone Rhime (C.S.E. Cooney)

Brimstone Rhine is the musical alter-ego of fantasy writer C. S. E. Cooney. She writes songs of myths and monsters, star-journeys, weird birds, and women who eat people.

1:30pm – Blind Lemming Chiffon

Blind Lemming Chiffon, filker, has been performing exploratory surgery on the heart of the music business for quite some time, and isn’t finished yet.

2:30pm – Mark Bernstein

Mark Bernstein attended his first Worldcon in 1974, and has been filking since 1975. He’s a Pegasus Award winner, and in 2016 was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame. Expect songs and stories both serious and silly, along with plenty of awful puns.

Saturday

10:30am – Sassafras (Ada Palmer and Lauren Schiller)

Sassafras takes tales from Viking mythology set as close harmony a cappella music narrating the creation of the cosmos, the strife between Odin & Loki, and the coming of Ragnarok, plus other science fiction & fantasy themes. Composed by Ada Palmer (author of Terra Ignota).

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11:30pm – Kerri-Ellen Kelly

Kerri-Ellen Kelly is the manager of (and singer in) vocal ensemble Court & Country (which has sung at midwest SF and filk conventions as well as Chicon 7, OVFF, FKO and Confluence). She is also a solo musician in her own right. In addition to singing as a mezzo soprano, she plays or is learning to play multiple instruments including horn, trombone, soprano recorder, bagpipes, baritone ukulele, guitar, violin and mandolin (at widely varying levels of competency). Her love of both research and early music have caused her to include numerous medieval and renaissance songs in her repertoire with a particular fondness for bawdy Elizabethan ballads (especially in her historical persona as Lady Margrett Norwoode). However, she also loves more modern music and filk tunes and writes her own original music. One of her original pieces was the third place winner in the 2017 Iron Filker contest at OVFF. Her name is a tongue twister waiting to happen; feel free to call her Kerri.

3:00pm – Another Castle

Another Castle is the geekiest women’s choir in Helsinki, Finland. With the help of some Nordic magics we summon geeky melodies from movies, TV-series and games. In August we’ll mount our dragons and fly to Ireland to perform at Worldcon 77! Let us take you on a wondrous musical journey through all your favourite fantasy worlds.

Another Castle will also be performing on Sunday morning at 10:30am in Warehouse 2.

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4:30pm – Alexander James Adams

Canticles Productions brings Alexander James Adams at his best with High-Fantasy Storytelling Through Music.  If you love Literature, Art, Music, and Media in fantastical worlds never seen before, then Canticles is for you.  Find us on Patreon to support our amazing family of independent creators, or YouTube, where we will be posting our entire set list so you can sing along with us in a multimedia concert experience in Dublin!

Canticles will be performed twice at Dublin 2019. The full multimedia performance will be held in the Second Stage on Friday at 11:30am, and an acoustic concert will be held in Warehouse 2 on Saturday at 4:30pm.

Sunday

10:30am – Another Castle

Another Castle is the geekiest women’s choir in Helsinki, Finland. With the help of some Nordic magics we summon geeky melodies from movies, TV-series and games. In August we’ll mount our dragons and fly to Ireland to perform at Worldcon 77! Let us take you on a wondrous musical journey through all your favourite fantasy worlds.

Additional links:

11:30am – Death Ingloria (Galina Rin)

Death Ingloria: Rock Music, Comic Art and Animation. Death Ingloria explores Humanity’s depths, its heights, and its inevitable conclusions through rock music, comic art and animation.​

Death Ingloria’s debut album The Wolf Onboard is a complete Science Fiction story told across seven songs, a seven page comic book and seven animated videos which play out during Death Ingloria’s performances. The comic is the narration of the story, the songs the voices of the characters.

Each of Death Ingloria’s albums are complete Sci-Fi stories accompanied by an animated comic. At the end of each album Humanity finds inglorious ways to be completely wiped out.

12:15pm – Kerri-Ellen Kelly

Kerri-Ellen Kelly is the manager of (and singer in) vocal ensemble Court & Country (which has sung at midwest SF and filk conventions as well as Chicon 7, OVFF, FKO and Confluence). She is also a solo musician in her own right. In addition to singing as a mezzo soprano, she plays or is learning to play multiple instruments including horn, trombone, soprano recorder, bagpipes, baritone ukulele, guitar, violin and mandolin (at widely varying levels of competency). Her love of both research and early music have caused her to include numerous medieval and renaissance songs in her repertoire with a particular fondness for bawdy Elizabethan ballads (especially in her historical persona as Lady Margrett Norwoode). However, she also loves more modern music and filk tunes and writes her own original music. One of her original pieces was the third place winner in the 2017 Iron Filker contest at OVFF. Her name is a tongue twister waiting to happen; feel free to call her Kerri.

3:00pm – The Irish Video Game Orchestra

The Irish Video Game Orchestra are a team of forward-thinking musicians who merge modern music with classical composition to create new and exciting renditions of scores from video games, anime, film and TV. They have played in concerts across Ireland and have entertained audiences of all ages with their dynamic mix of music that includes classical, Japanese and traditional Irish influences.

The Irish Video Game Orchestra will also be performing during the Hugo Awards Ceremony in the Auditorium on Sunday at 8pm.

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4:30pm – Claire McCague

Claire McCague is a Canadian writer, scientist and musician, who plays tunes for dances, festivals, musicals, period plays, parades, parties, ferry rides and quests. She’s happy to bring the smaller instruments from her woodwind collection to Worldcon.

Monday

10:30am – Gary Ehrlich

Gary Ehrlich is a mild-mannered song-writing structural engineer from the Washington, DC area and 2012 Filk Hall of Fame inductee.

1:30pm – Sassafras (Ada Palmer and Lauren Schiller)

Sassafras takes tales from Viking mythology set as close harmony a cappella music narrating the creation of the cosmos, the strife between Odin & Loki, and the coming of Ragnarok, plus other science fiction & fantasy themes. Composed by Ada Palmer (author of Terra Ignota).

Additional Links: