Global Club Nights: Gædlin | Hugh Sheehan

Global Club Nights (GCN) is a club series where people who deal and work with music gather with those who love and enjoy it, to celebrate and create a safe, inclusive, and creative environment.

With live music, radio shows, seminars and workshops, the events attempt to build bridges between all music lovers and their communities. Global Club Nights (GCN) closely collaborates with the Global music Department of Sibelius Academy and Cultural Centre Caisa.

Gædlin
In the liminal spaces that lie between countries, eras, and genres stand Gædlin, a new Helsinki-based Global Folk ensemble. Hailing from the USA, Finland, and the Netherlands, respectively, and featuring a creative assortment of instruments, this unlikely quartet weave a mercurial combination of original folk songs, swinging dance tunes, darkly storied ballads, and traditional pieces from around the world.

Hugh Sheehan is a musician—multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer— from Birmingham, now based between the UK and Finland.

Hugh Sheehan: Shapes That Are Different
Shapes That Are Different is a collection of folk songs that contemplates shame, desire, and queer selfhoods. "Composed, Produced, Performed and Engineered by myself, the record calls into question many of the conflicts inherent to queerness."

Duration: 3,5 h, incl. intermission
Language: English, Finnish, Portuguese and Spanish