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TIHWF brings together four musicians, each of them rooted in different cultures and musical vocabularies, each on the cusp of their most fertile and creative years. Individually, each member has carved out a reputation for not just mastering their chosen fields, but rising above, redefining and renewing the musical world they come from. A sublime Irish fiddler who’s not afraid to step outside convention, a sophisticated Appalachian hard shoe dancer stepping into the rhythmic foreground, A thoughtful Dublin jazzman who has moved beyond the linear constraints of the genre, and a lyrical Swedish percussionist redefining the melodic and sonic place of drums within the contours of traditional song.

The collective pedigree is eye catching, and includes bands like The Gloaming, The Chieftains, Darol Anger and Gjallarhorn, along with interdisciplinary work in theatre, dance and contemporary music. Their centred, inquisitive approach to finding a collective voice is now yielding a rich bounty of ideas, in the studio with the release of their eponymous CD and on festival stages where the music opens up to reveal a playful group energy with a liberated spirit. They’ve performed extensively in Ireland and Scandinavia, including performances at beacon festivals like Umefolk and Celtic Connection.

In April 2015, This is How we Fly embarked on their first US tour, which included a ground-breaking music residency at Princeton University, where they worked with young composers and the famed So Percussion percussive group. At the end of the residency, they performed with all of these collaborators in a sold-out headline concert at the Princeton Sound Kitchen.

The highlight of the US tour was three sold-out concerts at the prestigious Irish Arts Center, New York.

2016 saw the band tour heavily throughout Ireland as well as France, with a landmark concert as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival (who commissioned the formation of the group in 2010). That concert was subsequently nominated for Best Live Performance at the Dublin Fringe Festival awards.

In January 2017, This is How we Fly successfully crowdfunded the recording of their second album. Audiences of 60 per night were invited into the studio with them over three nights of unique music making, mixed with informal chat and improvsations.

This is How we Fly will release this second album in September 2017 with a tour of Europe and the USA to follow in late 2017 & 2018.