Amanda’s love of song and music and the written word is a long sublime love affair. Singing bilingually since primary school, Amanda’s love of song is well established. With her impressive run winning Labhairt na Gaeilge as part of Féile na hInse throughout primary and secondary school she has joined both these passions together. In 2022 she was one of the successful recipients of glór‘s ‘artist to artist’ mentorship award with Domhnall Ó Braonáin who has found his own space winning the prestigious award for Comórtas na bhFear at the Oireachtas in October 2022/2024.
Amanda’s explorative style as a song writer is complimented by her poetry… in fact for her there is a form of symbiosis there. Her musicality influencing her poetry and her poetry impacting her lyricism. In both she is completely enthralled by the real and the raw elements and experiences in life. Most important is for her the use of Irish in her creativity.
This synergy of the ethereal and the energetic is inescapable in her live shows as she is now writing as part of her project Phoenix and Wolfe with Brazilian guitarist Cairo Rocha from the giant of Brazilian MPB music and the man behind many of the movements most notable, Gamela.
Amanda is heading back into the studio now to record with Cairo over the spring summer months to complete her EP, after a successful few years touring around Ireland.
Amanda is also working on her poetry and is at the final stages of her first collection of works. The collection promises to be a journey of the spirit. A member of the Steering Committee for The Clare Poetry Collective- Amanda not only works on progression of poetry with the support of glór, she is also curating a bilingual show for June 2025.
She also joined some of the Clare Poetry Collective and Oisín Ó Cualáin for interpretive performance poetry investigating and interpreting the Irish National Opera’s ‘Mary Motorhead’ and ‘Trade’ in glór Autumn 2024.
Another love of hers is watercolour painting and is something she does more for fun- but watch this space as she honors her curiosities on flowers.