Scoil na gCláirseach—Festival of Early Irish Harp 2018

We are now taking bookings for our sixteenth festival

DATE 15–21 August 2018

VENUE The medieval city of Kilkenny, Ireland, at Coláiste Pobail Osraí

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT of €25 on the week rate if you book by 15 May 2018

and / or

BRING A FRIEND DISCOUNT of €25 on the week rate if you sign up with a friend who is new to the festival.

HHSI Associate Members receive a €30 discount on Player’s fees paid in their year of membership. Join now at www.irishharp.org

2018 VISITING ARTISTS & SCHOLARS include

Our juicy, bursting-to-capacity programme includes the following

CONCERTS

Ceòl Mór: The Big Music of Harp and Pipes [S. Chadwick, A. Heymann & A. Macdonald]
The Dawn of Day: Songs of the Harpers [S. Armstrong, E. Ní Ríordáin & Mícheál Ó Catháin]
Highlands and Lowlands: Sounds of Scotland [A. Macdonald & J. Ruff]
A Hidden Ulster: The Music of Oriel [P. Ní Uallacháin, S. Crawford & Darren Mhag Aoidh]

TALKS / WORKSHOPS include

Passing on the tradition: learning old Irish harp repertory, style, and technique (S. Chadwick)
Radiocarbon dating the Queen Mary harp (K. Loomis; virtual presentation live from Princeton, USA)
Exploring tuning strategies (P. Dooley)
A’ ghlas mheur [< the finger lock]: Adapting Piobaireachd to Cláirseach (A. Heymann)
Music, Ireland and the sixteenth century (S. Armstrong)
Emotion and Passion in Ceòl Mór: dealing with rhythm and tension in phrasing (A. Macdonald)
Lyons, O’Kane & O’Hampsey: The transmission of Eibhlín a Rún variation sets in the eighteenth century (S. Armstrong)

PLUS

As ever, we also offer our unique, measured

HHSI Student and HHSI Connemara harps for you to rent and play
Delicious, hot, vegetarian lunches cooked for us each day by our cook, Pat Glavin
A field trip to museum collections in Dublin to see surviving harps

Players: Join us for the complete festival programme, from 8.45 a.m. to 6.45 p.m. each day.

Auditors: Join us for part – or all – of any day to listen in on Players’ sessions, workshops, lectures, masterclasses and concerts.

Field trippers: Join us for a day in Dublin, inspecting historic harps close-up, guided by world experts, on Tues. 21 August.

What’s it all about? Informational video HERE

See the 2017 festival timetable HERE

Booking information HERE

info@irishharp.org +353 (0)86 8623430

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