Riverbank Arts Centre, Main Street, Newbridge, Co.Kildare

Lau combine stunning musicianship with a ground-breaking yet playful approach to traditional music that transcends the music they hold dear, creating a cutting edge sound which garners praise from far beyond the roots scene. Prepare to be wowed by the wildly inventive Martin Green on accordian keys and effects, Aidan O'Rourke's impossibly beautiful fiddle playing, Kris Drever's virtuoso guitar and honeyed baritone voice, not to mention some excellent on stage banter and chemistry between the band.

In Toner Quinn’s words, they ‘essentially ignored what everyone presumed traditional music audiences wanted to hear,’ and gone instead for ‘anarchic improvisation’, counter melodic explorations and abstraction of traditional material