Candlelit Tales bring storytelling to Dalkey Comedy Festival on Jan
29th at Sandycove Store & Yard. Candlelit Tales was founded by sibling
storytellers Aron and Sorcha Hegarty. Sorcha was always a book lover
and as the older sibling to Aron (a performer from birth), she would
tell him stories to keep him quiet on long bus rides. She quickly
found myths were the best way to distract him. Over the years their
enthusiasm for story and live performance combined, and they found
that once they started telling stories together, they couldn’t stop.
Driven by this shared passion for Irish mythology and expression, we
started retelling these ancient stories to a near-empty room upstairs
in a Dublin pub one rainy evening in November 2014. The next week, the
room was a lot less empty, and the stories were lifted by live music.
By the fourth week, the room was full, and so was the hall outside of
it. Since then, over the years of telling stories in the capital of
this nation of storytellers, Candlelit Tales have developed and
refined a uniquely expressive, naturalistic and modern style. Live
music is the heartbeat of all the performances, and a live original
music score composed by a team of talented musicians drives the rhythm
of the storytelling, weaving through the tale and sweeping the
listener away. We take our favourite myths, and we don’t shy away
from the sex and violence that was always present in the Irish
storytelling tradition. We keep the depth, the wisdom, and the
richness, and leaven it with humour, passion and playfulness to
enchant audiences of all ages. We will make you laugh, make you cry,
and maybe even make you roar. We want to let these stories live again,
and we need you to listen.
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