Launch of Harp Studies II: World Harp Traditions
2024-03-04 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick, Limerick, V94 NCF8, Ireland
Irish World Academy Special Event: Launch of Harp Studies II: World Harp Traditions
Monday 4th March, 5pm
Irish World Academy, Theatre 2
Helen Lawlor and Sandra Joyce, co-editors, are launching the 2nd
volume in the Harp Studies series, World Harp Traditions, on March
4th, 5pm, Tower Theatre, Irish World Academy building. The launch
will feature performances by a number of the contributors to both
volumes of Harp Studies, including Helen and Sandra, Paul Dooley,
Cormac De Barra, Niall Keegan, the Cuisle Harp Ensemble directed
by Fiana Ní Chonaill, and a host of other performers.
Published by Four Courts Press, Dublin, this book situates harping
activity as a vital aspect of music making in traditions around the
world. Contributors include Helen Lawlor (TU Dublin); Sandra
Joyce (UL); Niall Keegan (UL); Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (MU); Helen
Davies (ind.); Lia Lonnert (Linnaeus U.); Mary Louise O’Donnell
(ind.); Cormac De Barra (DkIT); Catriona Cannon (NUIG); Tristan
Le Govic (Rennes 2 U.); Joshua Dickson (Royal Conservatoire
of Scotland); Paulla Ebron (Stanford U.); Rémy Jadinon (Royal
Museum for Central Africa); Sylvie Le Bomin (Sorbonne University) and Salomé Strauch
(Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle); Lucie Rault (Muséum national d’Histoire
naturelle); Haley Hodson (ind.); Benjamin Fairfield (University of
Hawai‘i at Manoa); Suwichan Phattanaphraiwan (Bodhivijjalaya
College); Susanne Fürniss (CNRS. The National Center for Scientific
Research); Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen (ind.).
Helen Lawlor is a Lecturer in Music at TU Dublin. Sandra Joyce is
Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,
UL.
Admission is free and all are welcome.

Finding a Voice presents: Amerghin – Wind on Sea
2024-03-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Main Guard, Clonmel, Sarsfield Street, Burgagery-Lands West, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
Finding a Voice presents: Amerghin – Wind on Sea
Sunday 10th March, 1pm
Main Guard, Clonmel
€8/€5

Amerghin: Wind on Sea
Anne Marie O Farrell (harp)
Aingeala De Búrca (violin)
Tim Doyle (whistles, pipes)
Brian Fleming (bodhrán, bones, percussion)
Between them they have played with artists from Led Zeppelin to the Chieftains, Elvis Costello, In Tua Nua, Riverdance, and Mamady Keita, and in concert, chamber and baroque orchestras around the world, on more than 150 albums, in more than 50 countries. They have played every style of venue and festival in Ireland from music bars to concert halls and stadia, and from fleadhs and baroque festivals to Electric Picnics. Their combined experience as professional musicians spans 150 years.
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The four members of Amerghin combine that experience to create stunning new compositions and improvisations, which co-exist on their set list with music that is older than most nations. Whether it is music from the seventeenth century or new music being improvised into existence in front of your ears, Amerghin breathe new life into everything they play.
For Finding a Voice 2024, Amerghin perform music by Máire Breatnach, Irish American fiddler Liz Carroll, Italian baroque composer Isabella Leonarda, French baroque composer Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, West African kora player and composer Sona Jobarte, and composer and harpist Anne-Marie O’Farrell.
Song of Amergin (Irish mythology; date unknown)
“Am gáeth I mmuir ar domni
Am tond trethan i tír
Am fúaim na mara”
“I am the wind on the sea
I am the wave on the land
I am the sound of the sea”

The Singing Harps
2024-03-10 15:00 - 17:30 | LexIcon Library and Cultural Centre, Queen's Rd, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
The Singing Harps
Sunday 10th March 2024, 3pm
Dún Laoghaire Lexicon Library
Claire Roche will sing accompanied by harp, a compilation of well loved Irish songs, including ‘The Spinning Wheel’, ‘ Danny Boy’ etc.
Included in her programme will be a selection of W.B Yeats’s poems set to music .
She will also present some of her original songs with harp accompaniment: these were inspired by her childhood home, once a miniature farm .
Concert length 90 minutes with interval .Tea/ Coffee and biscuits served after performance .
Tickets available here.
