Tradition Now: Room to Rhyme

In 1968, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Davy Hammond went on a tour around Northern Ireland, reciting poems and singing songs. They travelled under the banner of Room to Rhyme.

We wanted to remember those great poets and that great singer, hence the title of this event. Rhyme, as a noun, means simply a correspondence in sound between words. By extension, a repeated phrase or motif in a piece of music or in a song is also a rhyme, but rhythms can rhyme, and so can images.

Room to Rhyme is curated by Theo Dorgan and produced with ITMA.

Presented by NCH in partnership with The Arts Council.

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