Foggy Notions & Pavilion Theatre

Ellie O’Neill

& special guests Aongus & Rua Rí
as part of Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival 2026

Ellie O’Neill is an artist from Co. Meath, Ireland whose music weaves a rich, diverse and tender landscape, traversing raw and intuitive explorations of intimacy and loss, friendship and queer identity. She released her incredible debut album Time of Fallow, a luminous and deeply introspective body of work that moves through memory, grief, desire and self-reckoning with rare clarity.

Aongus is a cellist, singer and multi-instrumentalist from Donegal. He blends various styles from classical and traditional Irish to chamber pop to create a style uniquely his own. Influenced by artists such as Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Arthur Russell and Sigur Rós, he has collaborated, recorded and performed music with a wide variety of musicians such as Briana Corrigan of The Beautiful South, Niamh Bury, Darrgh Lynch (Lankum), Iona Zajac and Ellie O’Neill.

Growing up in a coastal town, the presence of the sea is ever felt and for Cobh-born singer-songwriter Rua Rí, aka Seán Damery, it is no different. It is rare that the sea does not bleed into the soft and serene folk music he has become known for, his work echoing tradition while forging a path that feels wholly his own. Fully produced by Kean Kavanagh his debut album Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life is rooted in place, memory, and ordinary life, with nearly every song tying back to specific locations — Cobh, Cork City, nearby fields, local woods, familiar streets — and the emotions attached to them.