The Academy Center of the Arts and Forte Chamber Music Ensemble presents Brooklyn Rider & Maeve Gilchrist at the Historic Academy Theatre on March 14, 2020.
“If there’s a soundtrack to a fine summer, this is it. If there’s a musician who can bask in tradition yet immerse herself musically in the multicoloured experience of life, it’s Gilchrist.” —Siobhan Long, Irish Times
“Musical imagination may be ineffable, but you recognize it when you hear it, and Brooklyn Rider has it in spades.” —The Washington Post
In this adventurous new collaboration, Brooklyn Rider, “a string quartet of boundless imagination” (NPR Music), and Celtic harp virtuoso Maeve Gilchrist, “a phenomenal harpist who makes her instrument ring with unparalleled purity” (Dirty Linen), come together to celebrate the roots and branches of Celtic music as both an ancient tradition and a living art form. Drawing from newly imagined settings of traditional repertoire, works composed for Brooklyn Rider, and material from Gilchrist’s groundbreaking new album the Harp Weaver, this evening will meld the string quartet with an emblem of ancient Ireland in a handshake between two traditions that is both timeless and breathtakingly new.
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