LONDON -- Several Irish performers will bare their souls in "From the Heart," a five-day festival billed as a collaboration of music and the spoken word, beginning Saturday at the Barbican Center in London.

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Among those demonstrating a gift for gab: the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, accompanied by piper Liam O'Flynn, and the folk singers and storytellers Tommy Makem, Arty McGlynn, Davy Hammond and Jean Ritchie, virtual heroes in Northern Ireland.The finale features new artists like Kila, Iarla O'Lionaird and Eimear Quinn, a singer who rose to fame while dancing her way through "Riverdance."

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