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CONCERTS:


MOUTHPIECE - FUZZY LOGIC & TOM ARTHURS
Friday 2nd May 2008, 8pm        
Tickets: €15 / €12
Tom Arthurs is a superb young trumpet player and an exceptional exponent of a thriving London jazz and improvised music scene. No stranger to large groups, Tom is a member of the critically acclaimed F-IRE Collective and has worked with many jazz virtuosos including Kenny Wheeler and John Taylor. For this tour Arthurs joins another outstanding jazz group: FUZZYLOGICENSEMBLE. With composer Dylan Rynhart at the helm on Hammond organ, the ensemble have been making an impression on the Irish jazz scene for the past six years with their lyrical and innovative signature style. Ten of Ireland's finest young musicians put Rynhart's quirky and evocative compositions through their paces with hallmark skill and tenacity in a line up which includes guitar, hammond, voice, tenor sax, alto sax, bass, trumpet, cello and drums. "Mouthpiece" is a collection of music written for trumpet and ensemble, in which the trumpet becomes the voice of the composer, inciting the ensemble to express themselves collectively about the joy and the heartache in the world around us. The music is inspired directly and indirectly by speech; patterns, emotion and expression.

THE GLEN ROAD: Traditional Music, Song and Dance from South West Donegal
Friday 16 May 2008, 8pm        
Tickets: €15 / €10
South West Donegal has as rich a heritage of traditional music, song and dance as anywhere in Ireland and ‘The Glen Road’, celebrates this inheritance with a unique presentation that spans generations and focuses on the music and song of some of the parish of Glencolmcille’s most venerable musicians.  Among them are four incredible musicians in their eighties - Kitty Sean Cunningham (song & dance), Eddie Gara (melodeon), Con McGinley (fiddle) and Brigid Gara (melodeon). It is said that “wisdom comes with age”, and good music and song is all the sweeter when it comes from seasoned performers. Not to be missed!