Live music - Irish Folk Duo

Irish folk musicians Ríoghnach Connolly and Stuart McCallum are the creative heart of The Breath. And for them, it’s all about the song.

Connolly writes the only way she knows how; a stream of poetic consciousness giving rise to honest, personal, heartfelt songs as likely to touch on childhood summers and first love as cultural dislocation, post-colonial injustices and grief. But it’s her deeply soulful, utterly engaging, stop-you-in-your-tracks voice – whether delicate and hushed or powerful and gutsy – coupled with Stuart’s understated brilliance and their exquisitely crafted songs, that give The Breath such emotional depth.

“The Breath rolls across the senses like clouds caress low hills – always moving, changing, evolving; and utterly fascinating.” Folk Radio.com
“Folk roots but different horizons… the jaw-droppingly stunning, woozy voice of Ríoghnach Connolly.” The Guardian