Diana Ní hÍceadha

Hailing from the rocky western wilds of Éire, via the lush, loamy headlands of the east, and led to Aotearoa by the bones of a story that whispered across oceans from Te Waipounamu, singer-songwriter Diana Ní hÍceadha offers songs that trace the pathways of migration, of people, seasons, memory, and meaning.

Her music charts the movement between places and seasons, marking thresholds of arrival and departure, holding on and letting go. These are songs of welcome and farewell, of belonging and becoming, rooted in close listening, to land, grief and change.
She sings for the seeds that landed before her and now grow alongside her, tentative locals on foreign soil. Immigrants all, still learning what it means to belong.

Her work holds space for the in-betweens, between cultures, between homes, between what’s been lost and what might still be found.

“D is a singer and apologises in advance if she makes you cry.”

Catch Diana performing her songs and music at Golden Bay Live Poets Society’s July gathering at the Mussel Inn.