Month: April 2014

Sunday, 27 April 2014

RHA Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin 2

2.30 – 3.15pm & 3.45 – 4.30 pm

Admission Free

Concorde:

Jane O’Leary, artistic director

Paul Roe, clarinet/bass clarinet

Bogdan Sofei, violin

Martin Johnson, cello

Dermot Dunne, accordion

Clare McCague, concert harp

Visual artist, Marie Hanlon

2.30 pm

Patrick Egan: new piece (premiere)  (bass clarinet, cello, accordion)  Concorde 2014 student composer

Ellen Lindquist (USA/Norway): Eos  (2005) (solo violin)  (Irish premiere)

Judith Ring:  swelt belly at dawn  (2013)  (violin, cello, clarinet) a Concorde commission

Rhona Clarke & Marie Hanlon: The Small Hours  (accordion solo + visuals) premiere, commissioned by Concorde

3.45 pm

Documentary film on Frank Corcoran, produced by Mark Linnane

Frank Corcoran: A Dark Song (Irish premiere) (bass clarinet solo)

Ed Bennett: Breath  (2006) commissioned by Concorde for the Beckett centenary. (bass clarinet, violin, cello)

Helgi Ingvarsson (Iceland/UK): Breath (premiere, 2012 revised) (cello, harp)

Rhona Clarke & Marie Hanlon – The Small Hours (2014)  (accordion solo + visuals) a Concorde commission

The final event in Concorde’s series UP CLOSE WITH MUSIC at the RHA Gallery this year features new work by composer Rhona Clarke and artist Marie Hanlon, a 70^th birthday tribute to Frank Corcoran, the premiere of a specially composed work by Concorde’s 2014 student composer Patrick Egan, music from Norway and Dublin contemplating ‘dawn’, and music from Icelandic and Irish composers reflecting on ‘breath’.  The concerts take place at 2.30 and 3.45 pm and admission is free.  Programmes feature new Irish music in an international context.  The Gallery opens at Noon and current exhibitions include Dorothy Cross: Connemara and James Hanley: Souvenirs.

Up Close with Music is supported by a Music Project Award from The Arts Council.

TG4’s newest, most exciting traditional Irish music series, Bosca Ceoil, is recording in Monroes Live, Galway from April 7th-11th. It has been announced that Pauline Scanlon from Lumiere will be the presenter of the series.

Pauline Scanlon has a voice described by The Irish Times as “a superb mix of china cup fragility and steely strength”- Hailing from the strong West Kerry tradition of song, she has the ability to interpret her physical and emotional landscape. Pauline has released 4 albums, all to critical acclaim, 2 solo offerings and in recent years 2 as half of celebrated duo Lumiere. Pauline’s distinctive voice has seen her perform around the globe on stages from Glastonbury to New York’s Carnegie Hall. Over the years she has performed and recorded with some of Ireland’s most cherished artists including Sinéad O’Connor, Damien Dempsey, Séamus Begley and John Spillane to name a few. Throughout her career Pauline has exemplified her worldly knowledge of different musical styles and showcased her ability and willingness to cross-traditional boundaries while maintaining her roots in West Kerry.

Bosca Ceoil brings together an eclectic mix of famous faces and new artists and is brought to TG4 by the team behind 2013’s hit series, Fleadh Live. Gifted Empire Productions broke new ground with massive audience ratings for Fleadh Live and was a huge success with their groundbreaking coverage of Fleadh Ceoil 2013 from Derry.

Artists already confirmed to appear in the filming of Bosca Ceoil include:

Sharon Shannon, Cara Dillon, Dervish, We Banjo 3, Moxie, Frankie Gavin, Flook, Four Men and a Dog and Mick Flannery.

Now added to the line up are Lumiere, Buttons & Bows, Joanie Madden, Beoga, Steve & Joe Wall, Edel Fox & Nell Byrne, Alan Kelly Gang, The Bonny Men,  Raw Bar Collective, At First Light, New Road with Lisa O’Neill & Donal McCague.

Limited tickets to this exclusive recording are still available – contact boscaceoiltg4@nullgmail.com

Facebook – facebook.com/boscaceoilTG4

Twitter – @BoscaCeoilTG4

Singer-songwriter, Luan Parle, is currently in the middle of a series of Songwriting, Music and Performance workshops taking place at venues throughout the country. This month, Luan will be hosting a two-day workshop on Glór, Ennis on 15^th and 16^th April and then moving on to Making Music in Gorey, Co. Wexford on 18^th and 19^th April.

Luan recently hosted workshops in Naas and Wicklow. The participants of the Wicklow workshop will be performing their song at the Wicklow Wide Coffee Morning in Enniskerry this morning, Friday 4^th April.

For full details of the upcoming workshops, including booking information, are here and here.