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Launch Day (The Official Soundtrack)

by Breifne Holohan

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LAUNCH DAY
Launch Day is a contemporary dance production by the Kelly-Abbott Dance Theatre. In collaboration with visual artist Alexander Millar, KADT explores the industrial history of the UK shipyard communities, bringing to life Millar’s paintings of working men and the iconic characters known as “Gadgies”.

Creating movement influenced by Millar’s paintings and research undertaken with former shipyard workers from the shipbuilding industry, Launch Day is a celebration of the UK in all its industrial glory and the culture and vibrancy of these shipbuilding towns. The working man is portrayed hard at graft, but also during their social time, in the pub and at the football. Launch Day presents a glimpse into the life of the working class at a time when industry thrived and there was still a sense of immense camaraderie amongst the shipyard labour force.

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released February 23, 2018

SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack and sound design for Launch Day was composed and arranged by composer, Breifne Holohan. It also features additional music by Sergei Prokofiev, Lindisfarne and Mark Knopfler.

"It’s always exciting when individual pieces of creative work come together to make something else. This project with Kristin’s dancers is inspired by painting and song and I’m delighted that some of my music is a part of it."
Mark Knopfler

Through extensive collaboration with KADT, Holohan has created a unique, cinematic sound design for Launch Day, transporting the audience to Tyneside and immersing them in all the sights, sounds and smells of ‘gadgie’ life in the Newcastle shipyards of old.



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Music composed, performed and produced by Breifne Holohan

Breifne Holohan - guitars/percussion/octave mandolin/harmonica
Grace Dillon – drums/percussion
Susan Connolly – flute
Emma Kiernan – fiddle/whistle
Trudy Maguire – accordion
Joe Savage – banjo
'Opening' features the voice of Ron Smith, shipyard worker
Also featuring young musicians from ‘Seisiún na nÓg’ at the Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda

Design - Stephen Higgins
Photography - Tina Wotherspoon
Artwork - Alexander Millar, courtesy of Washington Green Fine Art Group Ltd.

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Breifne Holohan Drogheda, Ireland

Breifne Holohan is an Irish composer and musician from Drogheda, County Louth. His music crosses a vast range of genres, from modern classical, acoustic guitar and minimalist music, to traditional Irish, ambient and electroacoustic styles. He is also the founding member of fusion/ambient project, six-string drum, as well as guitarist in traditional Irish duo, Uisneach. ... more

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