Delightful double bill at The Glens Centre
The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton hosts an extraordinary double bill when the acclaimed West Ocean Quartet and superb sean nos singer Maighread N Dhomhnaill join forces with leading poet Louis De Paor on Sun 14th March for what promises to be an unique evening especially programmed for Seachtain Na Gaeilge.
The West Ocean String Quartet was formed by Seamus McGuire and Niamh Crowley on violins, Ken Rice on viola and Neil Martin on cello with the intention of exploring and celebrating music both traditional and newly-composed. Their repertoire is eclectic and unique and they have gained a reputation for breaking down the walls between traditional and classical music
The quartet has performed throughout Ireland, including sell-out performances in Dublin's National Concert Hall, Belfast's Waterfront Hall, and in Glasgows Royal Concert Hall. Their music has also taken them to USA and Paris and between stage and studio they have collaborated with, amongst others, Mary Black, Liam OFlynn, Maighread N Dhomhnaill, Matt Molloy, Sinead OConnor and Brian Kennedy.
This concert will draw on material from the quartets 3 albums including the justreleased Ae Fond Kiss. Integral to the evening will be a performance of Oilen na Marbh, a song-cycle composed by Neil Martin especially for Maighread N Dhomhnaill, to words by Cathal Searcaigh.
The evening with will open with a reading by leading poet Louis de Paor to launch his new bilingual collection of poetry Agus Rud Eile De/And Another Thing. Born in Cork in 1961, Louis de Paor has been involved with the contemporary renaissance of poetry in Irish since 1980, when he was first published in the poetry journal Innti, which he subsequently edited. A fourtime winner of the Sen Rordin / Oireachtas Award, the premier award for a new collection of poems in Irish, he lived in Australia from 1987 to 1996. His first bilingual collection, Aimsir Bhreicneach / Freckled Weather, was short-listed for the Victorian Premiers Award for Literary Translation. He was also granted a Writers Fellowship by the Australia Council in 1995. He received the Lawrence OShaughnessy Award in 2000. His collection, Agus Rud Eile De, was awarded the Oireachtas prize for the best collection of poems in Irish in 2003. He is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
8.30pm Adm: 18/15. Group and family rates available. Bookings: 071 98 55833
