Spanning 5 decades, 2 centuries and 2 milenia (1987-2026), Dublin septet Kíla have been vanguards of Tradfusion since they began. Such is the multi-faceted nature of their music that they’ve performed at Jazz, Rock, Celtic and World Music festivals in 35 countries on 5 continents; They’ve released 21 CDs, co-composed music for 3 Oscar and Annie nominated animation films and composed Emmy nominated, IFTA and Greison winning scores.
While rooted in Irish Trad, their music has absorbed influences from a multitude of other genres such as Latin,
Reggae, Rock, Funk, Jazz, Classical and World Music in general.
Their earliest Ep Groovin’ (1991) and follow up Handel’s Fantasy (1993)demonstrated their gifted musicality. Here their own melodies danced alongside traditional ones, The varying musical atmospheres alongside the contrasting singing styles of Colm’s full ranged romantic delivery and Rónán’s unique percussive chant like style blended to form a new yet cohesive musical expression.
When Mind the Gap (1995) was released their musical creativity was in full bloom and they
could boast that this was the first self-composed album from the Trad genre. Their follow up Tóg É Go Bog É (1997) attracted huge
positive attention and after palying at WOMEX in Marseilles, the world embracedtheir unique take on Irish melodic music. Since then they’ve performed at the world’s biggest festivals like WOMAD (Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Sicily), Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Toner Festival (Denmark), RWMF (Malaysia), Sziget Festival (Hungary), Glastonbury, Boomtown, Cambridge Folk Festival (England), KAMWA (Russia), Globaltica (Poland), Celtic Conections (Scotland), Festival de Ortigueira (Spain), Edmonton Folk Festival (Canada), Dranouter Festival (Belgium). Cheoil na hÉireann (Éire). Colours of Ostrava (Czechia Milwauke Irish Festival (USA), The Electric Picnic,
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