IAC Commissions: Loah's 'Our Tree'

"Born in a mother and baby home to her Irish nursing student mother and 'Unknown' (according to her birth certificate) father, she was adopted and grew up like any other girl in 1950s and '60s Crumlin. However, skin colour, the mark of this Unknown Paternity, and the many questions and challenges it brought to life, led to a decades-long journey to discover her true origins."

Irish-Sierra Leonean artist Loah excavates the inheritance of her mother's lineage through song.

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“Our Tree”

Music and lyrics by Sallay Garnett, aka Loah

String arrangement and musical direction by Daniel Forde
Director and editor: Bobby Zithelo
Director of photography: James Collins
1st AC: Daniel Bolaños Meade
Gaffer: Eoghan Hand
Strings: Crash Ensemble
Violin: Larissa O'Grady
Violin: Lucia MacPartlin
Viola: Lisa Dowdall
Cello: Kate Ellis
Double bass: Caimin Gilmore

Live equipment: Murt Whelan
Live sound, track mixing & mastering: Dave O'Brien

Recorded live at Fumbally Stables Loft, Dublin

Commissioned by Irish Arts Center as part of
Grásta: Grace in Uncertainty | 2020 – 2022

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The IAC Grásta initiative is a series of commissions by a remarkable assembly of writers, musicians, and dance, visual and theatre artists, all responding to the idea of grace in uncertainty.