Saturday 27th September 2025
Location: Fennellys of Callan 13 Upper Bridge Street R95 WK80 Callan Get directions
Limited Tickets! – With the uncertainty of autum weather we’ve decided to run this event indoors in the hearse house so grab a ticket sooner rather than later to avoid disapointment.

There will be food, deserts, wine, kombucha, coffees and other non alcoholic beverages for sale. See updates on Instagram: @o_fionnachta_

VARO are Dublin-based singers and fiddle players Lucie Azconaga (from France) and Consuelo Nerea Breschi (from Italy) who perform Irish traditional songs and tunes with arrangement influences from the Folk, Baroque and Classical traditions, weaving around the melodies with harmonies, drones and countermelody.

The duo met in 2015 having moved to Dublin to pursue their love for Irish traditional music, and immediately started a fruitful collaboration. They travelled to Ireland along different musical paths, Lucie from jazz, classical music, and French folk, Consuelo from Irish trad, folk, and world music.

Over the years they have had the pleasure of working in various projects such as Landless, Lisa O’ Neill’s Band, Ye Vagabonds, AlaSourCe and The Nomadic Piano Project.

Their eponymous debut album was released in January 2020 to great critical acclaim.

Since then, they have performed at numerous venues and festivals around Ireland and abroad, including Tradition Now at the NCH, Quiet Lights Festival, St.Patrick’s Festival, Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival, TradFest, Tonn Nua (Berlin), Fête de la Musique (CCI, Paris), and for productions such as the Late Late Show on RTE, or TG4’s ‘Samhlú’ hosted by Tommy Tiernan.

VARO spent the last few years working on a new album based on collaborations.

This project, conceived during the lockdown, is an ambitious project featuring the duo and eleven of Ireland’s most exciting and exceptionally talented traditional and folk acts on the scene: Ian Lynch (Lankum), John Francis Flynn, Anna Mieke, Alannah Thornburgh, Junior Brother, Slow Moving Clouds, Niamh Bury, Inni-K, Ruth Clinton and Cormac MacDiarmada (Poor Creature), Lemoncello, Branwen.
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