biggest festivals around the world, like Montreaux Jazz Festival - Switzerland, Womad and Cambridge Folk Festivals - England, Rainforest World Music Festival in Borneo, Electric Picnic, Womadelaide, Glastonbury, and the Stockholm Water Festival, Sziget Festival- Budapest Hungary. They have also performed at the launch of the Special Olympics in Ireland for the welcoming ceremony of the Dalai Llama and at many of President Mícheál Ó hUiginn's garden Parties. In 2010, the band collaborated with French composer Bruno Coulais on the soundtrack of Cartoon Saloon'sThe Secret of Kells, The film was nominated for a best animated film at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010. That same year their music was heavily featured in two other feature films - Maeve Murphy's controversial Beyond the Fire and Ciarán O'Connor's Trafficked. Kíla's music also features in the award-winning documentary film Fight or Flight. In late 2011, Kíla published their long-awaited Book of Tunes. Comprising over 100 of their compositions and lavishly decorated with photos, poems & prose, the book was a huge success, being described as 'a masterpiece' by Seán Laffey from Irish Music Magazine. The publication of the book ended a fine year for Kíla in style. Through this year they played three sell-out shows in Harare, Zimbabwe at the HIAFA festival, played at the Possibilities conference that welcomed the Dalai Lama to Ireland and played the inaugural concert in Temple Bar Meeting House Square, under the elegant retractable canopies, two days before Christmas. 2015 could be termed the 'year of the awards and nominations' for Kíla. They collaborated on the music for the Oscar nominated animated feature, Song of the Sea with Bruno Coulais. They received an Annie Awards nomination for 'Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production'. They also received an Emmy nomination for their work on a Crossing The Line production called 'The Secret Life of the Shannon'. In June Eoin Dillon left and James Mahon from Shankill took his place. In 2020, just at the eve of the lockdowns, Kíla had begun recording music for two films Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers, and Tomás Ó Súilleabháin debut film Arracht. Screen Ireland chose Arracht to represent Ireland in the foreign film category in the Oscars and Wolfwakers was entered by Apple for the best Animation. It could've been the case that Kíla would've been mentioned in two films in the running for Oscars, but alas Arracht didn't make the shortli