From: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic,rec.music.folk
Subject: EIGSE NA LAOI '93
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:49:17 GMT
Organization: N.I.C.E.
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Summary: Festival news & a note about IRTRAD-L

[Reposted with permission from IRTRAD-L.  I don't think the people in
question have USENET access.  Please reply to the original author for
more info.  ==mwh]
 
EIGSE NA LAOI '93
 
The Music Department and the Traditional Music Society of University College,
Cork, Ireland will be organising the third of five international traditional
music festivals under the title of Eigse Na Laoi on February 18-21, 1993.
Following on from the success of the last two years which have focussed on the
Fiddle Music of the Shetland Isles (Fiddlesticks, '91) and Irish Music from
America (Dear Old Erins Isle, '92), the theme of the 1993 festival is The
Traditional Music and Dance of Cape Breton Island.  In 1994 and '95 the themes
of the festival will be respectively, Irish Music from England, and The Irish
Musical Diaspora which will link in with the theme of U.C.C.'s 150th
anniversary celebrations.  Since 1991 the festival has been expanding beyond
the boundaries of U.C.C. and has not alone made a lasting impact on the
traditional music scene in Cork City, but its unique nature has ensured it a
high national and even international profile.  One of the most important
factors in this has been the release and worldwide distribution af a CD
recording of the festival each year by Nimbus Records (U.K.).  The CD of the
February 1992 festival (Dear Old Erin's Isle) has just been released to rave
reviews and Nimbus Records are fully committed to recording the next three
festivals.
 
The traditional music of the inhabitants of Western Scotland who were driven
out during the infamous Highland Clearances in the 18th Century, has been
preserved and enriched in a unique way in Cape Breton, a small island off the
east coast of Canada.  While there are not many direct links between Cape
Breton and Ireland, they both share, to varying degrees, a close affinity with
the music of Scotland, and in recent years musical contacts between the two
islands have been very much on the increase.  The idea of this festival will be
to recognise the existing musical links and to foster a higher level of
communication between the two cultures.  The festival will feature the music of
fifteen of the leading fiddlers, pipers, piano players, singers and dancers
from the island:
 
               Harvey Beaton - dancer
               Hilda Chiasson - piano
               Dwayne Cote - fiddle
               Goiridh Domhnallach - singer
               Jerry Holland - fiddle
               Dougie MacDonald - fiddle
               Howie MacDonald (t.b.c.) - fiddle, piano
               Jamie MacInnis - pipes
               Dave MacIsaac - guitar, fiddle
               Carl MacKenzie - fiddle
               Buddy Macmaster - fiddle
               Natalie Macmaster - fiddle, dancing
               Paul MacNeill - pipes
               John Morris Rankin (t.b.c.) - piano, fiddle
               Brenda Stubbert - fiddle, piano, dancing
 
The weekend will follow a similar format to previous years.  The main concert
of the weekend featuring all the Cape Breton guests will be on Friday night in
the Aula Maxima of U.C.C.  There will be lunchtime recitals in the Triskel Arts
Centre on Friday and Saturday and there will again be a series of late-night
ceilis and sessions.  A major innovation with this year's festival will be a
special emphasis on dancing.  The set dances of Cape Breton have retained a
very important place in their tradition so we have invited a very highly
respected dancer/dance teacher, Harvey Beaton, who as well as performing
himself will conduct a series of set dance workshops during the Saturday of the
festival.  We will then be holding a major night of Irish and Cape Breton set
dancing and music in Cork's City Hall.  This will feature a selection of the
best Irish dance musicians along with our Cape Breton musicians and some very
special guests.
 
We feel that this very exciting line-up will ensure that the 1993 Eigse na Laoi
will be an even greater success than previous years.
 
If you would like any additional information about the festival please contact
the Music Department in University College, Cork, Ireland.
    Tel. 021-276871 Extensions 2440 or 2271
 
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[This originally appeared at the beginning of the article ==mwh]
 
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