Sean Kelly & the Super 8’s ensemble will play the Eastern Southland Gallery on May 16.
The event shows Super 8 movies, or footage shot from an affordable film camera, made by the father of Coromandel-based Irish musician Sean Kelly.
The footage captures people and places in urban Derry, rural Donegal and the north of Ireland from 1958 to 1988.
It includes The Troubles — a conflict that saw Catholic and Protestant communities turn on each other when they butted heads on whether the nation should stand on its own or union with Britain.
Mr Kelly said the footage also gave an idea of what ordinary life was like in Northern Ireland.
"[In the city people] always wore suits, even when they were playing football out in the street."
The pictures would be accompanied with music by Mr Kelly and his band.
Mr Kelly was on vocals, Irish whistles, Irish drum bodhran and guitar.
Jono Lonie would play fiddle, mandolin, and Uilleann pipes — the Irish equivalent of bagpipes.
Mr Kelly said the pipes had a unique sound.
"A lot of people think that [the sound of] Uilleann pipes are closest to the human voice."
Maree Limpus will strum the strings of a cello at the event.
The Gore stop is one of 20 across the country, including shows in Te Anau and Rakiura Stewart Island.
