L�nasa - L�nasa With The RTE Concert Orchestra

Irish All-Star acoustic outfit, L�nasa launches highly-anticipated collaboration with Ireland's RTE Concert Orchestra, the band's first recording in 3 years. The CD is set for September 2nd release and will be supported by UK festival appearances and major venue tour.Expect L�nasa with the RT� Concert Orchestra, the band's ninth album release, to reconfigure more than a few musical maps via the intersection between Irish music orchestral and Irish music traditional. The album began when RT� approached Niall Vallely, one of Ireland's most talented emerging composers and arrangers and brother of L�nasa's Cillian Vallely, with the idea of creating arrangements and working with a traditional band. Niall suggested L�nasa for the project, and the result is a magical union of Ireland's top traditional band and Ireland's national orchestra to create a very new sound in Irish music. Their first joint effort was a sold-out performance at Dublin's National Concert Hall on June 19, 2012 that was later broadcast on RT� Radio 1 and followed by the recording of the album. The RT� Concert Orchestra, whose credits include projects with talents as diverse as Luciano Pavarotti and Cleo Laine and Ireland's Sharon Shannon, Sin�ad O'Connor, Imelda May and The Coronas, is conducted by David Brophy. The Enhanced CD features a 4:46 film of L�nasa performing Morning Nightcap with the RT� Concert Orchestra at Dublin's National Concert Hall.