Don Oíche Úd i mBeithil with Patrick Dexter and Faye O’Rourke

When globally-renowned cellist Patrick Dexter was confined during lockdown, he went online to find a huge new audience. The videos he posted of himself practising the cello outside his rural cottage, with the beautiful remote Mayo landscape behind him, racked up millions of views as people found comfort and hope in his music and the setting.
With his highly-anticipated debut album Solace scheduled for release next year, you can enjoy this talent this Christmas with an exclusive performance of popular Irish carol, ‘Don Oíche Úd i mBeithil’ (‘That Night In Bethlehem’) with Faye O’Rourke, lead singer and songwriter with creative alt-pop band Soda Blonde.
Small Talk, Faye O’Rourke’s artful and charismatic debut with Soda Blonde, was released to widespread critical acclaim earlier this year.
Faye is an award-winning singer-songwriter with over ten years experience working in various capacities including singing, songwriting, performing, arranging, composing and producing. She is formerly a member of internationally acclaimed Irish Band ‘Little Green Cars’, currently the lead singer and songwriter for the critically acclaimed alt-pop band ‘Soda Blonde’ and a member of the group ‘Irish Women in Harmony’, which was at number 1 in the Irish charts in 2020. She has also begun composing for screen, with her latest composition featuring in the Oscar longlisted short ‘En Encounter’ by director Kelly Campbell.

[@maureenkavanagh188]

Wow beautiful. X

[@mikelykan.9416]

Lovely.

[@silvyebasta]

Beautiful 👏🏻

[@Karafleur]

Absolutely beautiful thank you 💚

[@m.tak-goo]

❤🥺

[@genghisthegreat2034]

Gaeilge 🇮🇪
Don oíche úd i mBeithil
beidh tagairt faoi ghréin go brách,
Don oíche úd i mBeithil
gur tháinig an Briathar slán;
Tá gríosghrua ar spéartha
's an talamh 'na chlúdach bán;
Féach Íosagán sa chléibhín,
's an Mhaighdean 'Á dhiúl le grá
Ar leacain lom an tsléibhe
go nglacann na haoirí scáth
Nuair in oscailt gheal na spéire
tá teachtaire Dé ar fáil;
Céad glóir anois don Athair
sa bhFlaitheasa thuas go hard!
Is feasta fós ar sa thalamh
d'fheara dea-mhéin' siocháin!
English 🇬🇧
I sing of a night in Bethlehem
A night as bright as dawn
I sing of that night in Bethlehem
The night the Word was born
The skies are glowing gaily
The earth in white is dressed
See Jesus in the cradle
Drink deep in His mother's breast
And there on a lonely hillside
The shepherds bow down in fear
When the heavens open brightly
And God's message rings out so clear
Glory now to the Father
In all the heavens high
And peace to His friends on earth below
Is all the angels cry

[@peteymax]

Go h-alainn 💚