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Ensemble Ériu: Stargazer

July 1, 2017 By guillaume

Ensemble Ériu - Stargazer (2017) - Artwork © Max Franosch

In 2014, the Model Arts Centre in Sligo commissioned Irish contemporary traditional septet Ensemble Ériu to write new music during a two week residency. The Model is home to the Niland Collection which includes 42 paintings by Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats (1871 - 1957). Composed as a response to the paintings held there and ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Ireland Tagged With: clarinet, concertina, double bass, ensemble, Ensemble Ériu, fiddle, marimba

Ensemble Ériu: Imbas

November 1, 2016 By guillaume

Ensemble Ériu - Imbas (2016)

Rooted in the traditional styles of North and West Clare, Ensemble Ériu is a unique combination of young Irish musicians revisiting a familiar repertoire with a highly original and innovative perspective. Following up on the band’s self-titled début in 2013 and released in June 2016 last on Raelach Records (in association with ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Ireland, Traditional Tagged With: concertina, double bass, ensemble, Ensemble Ériu, fiddle, marimba

Ensemble Ériu: Jurna

November 21, 2013 By guillaume

Ensemble Ériu (2013)

“Ensemble” is a great word choice: it conveys the idea of a group of musicians playing in the field of either classical, contemporary or jazz music, while in the Irish context, composer Seán Ó Riada’s band Ceoltóirí Chualann introduced the idea of ensemble playing in traditional Irish music in the early 1960s. The music of ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Ireland, Modern Classical, Traditional Tagged With: concertina, double bass, ensemble, Ensemble Ériu, marimba

Martin Hayes and Mary MacNamara: John Naughton’s/Tommy Coen’s

December 6, 2012 By guillaume

Featuring Martin Hayes on the fiddle and Mary MacNamara on the concertina, this is a vintage clip dating back to 1981 from the RTE TV archives (available on the [amazon text=Come West Along the Road&asin=B00O9WI1EC] DVD).  In the Irish traditional music context, musicians from East Clare tend to play jigs, reels and ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Ireland, Traditional Tagged With: concertina, fiddle

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