~ News Item ~  The Irish Spanish Connection - 21 February 2009 at 16:13 The Irish Spanish Connection Mermaid Arts Centre - Friday 27 March at 8pm Tickets €20 / €18 It has been said that Irish people are a Mediterranean race hampered by the weather. Depending on your point of view, establishing this link between Ireland and the Mediterranean could be as difficult as sailing an Armada around the coast of Donegal in a storm. Attempting to establish a connection on an artistic level are the artist’s Buille, La Musagna and their guest Cormac Breatnach. The form that this project will talk is a musical and mixed media performance at Mermaid Arts Centre on Friday 27 March at 8pm for one night only. The musical exploration project has already made two successful appearances last year at the Kilkenny Arts Festival and the Armagh William Kennedy Piping Festival with Asturian band, Tejedor.. Examining Celtic music connections between Ireland and Spain are Armagh band Buille, Spain's best-known instrumental folk band, La Musgaña (The Water Rat) together with special guest, Wicklow based musician, Cormac Juan Breatnach. Buille are brothers Niall and Caoimhín Vallely along with Paul Meehan and Brian Morrissey, they perform a body of new tunes written in a traditional style with contemporary arrangements. La Musgaña offer a view of all the instrumental music from Castile’s rich tradition from religious offertories to peasant dances (charradas, ajechaos and charros) All performed on a whole range of native, ethnic and contemporary instru¬ments which provide the perfect resonance at every moment of this creative look at the deepest roots of Spanish culture. Cormac Breatnach himself comes from an Irish-Spanish background and continues to explore his own Spanish background after featuring in TG4's "ceolchuairt" music programme last year, which witnessed his personal pilgrimage to the birthplace of his late mother in the Basque Country. The Irish Spanish allows audiences explore these fantastically strong musical traditions that have evolved separately and then see how they unite. ENDS For further information please contact Fergus Hannigan PR & Marketing Manager Mermaid Arts Centre Main Street, Bray, Co. Wicklow Tel: +353 1 2724302 Fax: +353 1 2724031 |
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