Living Room Conversations: Owen and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

This unique online experience will see two of Ireland's national treasures sing, talk and perform, Owen and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.

Owen and Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin are musicians, poets, and thinkers who have inherited a store of traditional culture through their parents and several other key mentorships. These two brothers from Ireland draw from a huge musical repertoire spanning thousands of years, embodying Ireland in song - Ireland’s oldest tradition, Celtic Sean Nós; Medieval Gregorian Chant from the Monastic Period; Irish folk songs in English and Gaelic, along with original inspirational pop-songs.

Owen and Moley have recorded ancient sacred chant and performed internationally with their mother, singer and theologian Nóirín Ní Riain, in a trio called AMEN. Their father, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, is a renowned composer, musicologist, pianist and founder-director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

Owen and Moley both entertain and educate through their art form. Their vast musical ability, interwoven with conversation, innocence, stories of life experience, and wicked sense of humor, makes you feel at ease, in awe, and transformed.

The brothers have recorded five studio albums, the latest released by Sounds True, called Fields Of Grace - Celtic Meditation Music from the Heart of Ireland. They have shared stages with Russell Crowe, David Whyte, Sinéad Ó Connor, The Chieftains, and Hugh Jackman. They have acted in Steven Spielbergs ‘Warhorse’ and with Russell Crowe in ‘A New York Winters Tale’.

They have just recorded an hour long PBS show in the live music series ‘The Kate’, broadcast nationally in May of 2019.

"Owen and Moley have inherited not only a depth of knowledge, but a stream of creative talent they have made their own. The have become one of Ireland’s most exciting and surprising creative artists, noticed and in demand in Ireland, the UK and the United States."

- David Whyte, Poet and Philosopher

"Here are blendings of chant, hymn, and instrumentation, so uplifting and mesmerizing they may bring your mind to a complete stop, which is a good thing if your thoughts are anything like some of mine."

- Billy Collins, Poet and U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003

Owen and Moley Ó Súilleabháin are more than stellar musicians; they are soulful physicians of the human heart, whose voices go straight to what is most in need of healing. They have put me back together again more than once, and I cannot thank them enough.

- Barbara Brown Taylor, Theologian and Author of ‘An Altar in the World’.

This live virtual event is truly an experience not to miss, brought to you from three different time zones. A spiritual, musical and poetic treat.