Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris
Newman In concert
Riverbank Arts Centre Newbridge
Friday 4th April
8.00pm (Tickets €12 / €10)
Booking 045 448333
boxoffice@riverbank.ie
An array of superlatives has been used to describe this musical
duo, performing at the Riverbank Arts Centre on Friday 4th April
at 8.00 pm.
From ‘Virtuosic, fascinating, dramatic, original, and inspired’,
to “gloriously adventurous, dazzling, brilliant, stunning,
impassioned, electrifying and bewitching.” The Irish Times,
The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Scotsman, Folk Roots….and
many others have sung their praises.
The celebrated virtuoso partnership of Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris
Newman has toured worldwide since its 1987 début.
Máire has been described as “the most interesting & original
player of the Irish harp today” and Chris “one of the
UK’s most staggering & influential acoustic guitarists” was
Irish Traditional Musician of the Year 2001.
In 1985 Máire recorded the first harp album ever to concentrate
on traditional Irish dance music, The New-Strung Harp. The techniques
which she invented for the purpose have been profoundly influential.
The prestigious Gradam Cheoil TG4, the Irish-language TV station’s
Award for Traditional Musician of the Year, was presented to her
in 2001 “for the excellence & pioneering force of her
music, the remarkable growth she has brought to the music of the
harp & for the positive influence she has had on the young
generation of harpers”.
Rooted in the Irish tradition, Chris and Máire’s performance
on “blazing guitar & dancing harp” (Dirty Linen)
is a breathtaking blend of traditional Irish music, hot jazz, bluegrass & baroque,
coupled with Máire’s “clear, warm & expressive
voice” & Chris’s “subversively witty introductions”.
Their fifth critically-acclaimed duo album Dialogues is “Terrific:
brilliant, beautiful, rich, virtuosic, delightful, classic, perfect!” This
is a concert not to be missed by anyone with an interest in good
music.
For further information, please contact Catríona or Grainne
on (045) 448314/5 or by e-mail at artscentre@riverbank.ie
