Biirds of a Feather: Biird is aiming to bring a sense of empowerment to female trad musicians. Here, we catch up with founder Lisa Canny about breaking traditions, collecting Biirds and why this band is like no other
Biird is a brand new supergroup made up of 11 of Ireland’s finest young traditional Irish musicians, singers, dancers and lilters. Over the past ten years I’ve been plucking these little gems from festivals, social media and corners of house parties and pulling them together to make Biird. I didn’t start out with having 11 members, but it slowly progressed to that.
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