Enjoy an evening of music and recitals from Steve and Joe’s collaborations together.  Their most recent collaboration ‘Au Revoir Tristesse’, is an artistic response to the Novel Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan.

Joseph Chester is a multi award-nominated songwriter, composer and musician whose albums have featured in the books 101 Irish Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, by Tony Clayton-Lea, Buried Treasure by Dan Hegarty and in The Sunday Times list of the best Irish albums of all time.

Steve Wickham is an accomplished violinist, he was a long time member of the Waterboys and in fact that’s where Steve and Joe met during their work on ‘An Appointment With Mr Yeats’ (The Waterboys’ setting of Yeats’ poems to music). Joe produced “Beekeeper” Steve’s solo album in 2017 and since then they have toured together and worked on several musical projects. Wickham has recorded on over 100 albums and performed live with various artists including U2, Bob Dylan, REM, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Sinead O’ Connor and many more. After a stint recording in the west of Ireland in the 1980s Wickham discovered his spiritual home and moved with his young family to Sligo. He lives close to the Leitrim Sculpture Centre where he regularly makes prints following several workshops with Welsh artist Pete Williams. When covid arrived and Steve was off the road from touring he chose to return to Fine Art at YAADA in the Atlantic University Sligo. Steve is married to the Artist Heidi Wickham.