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Love Live Music June 21st 2012To celebrate Love Live Music, South Tipperary County Council Arts Service are hosting a music event at the County Museum on 21st June at 8.00pm Admission is free but places are limited so booking is essential contact 052 6134552 to book a place.
Fire & Passion - Dances of the Age of Reason -from the Banks of the Suir to the Savannas of Mexico Recorder - Laoise O’Brien Viol - Malachy Robinson Baroque Guitar - Eamon Sweeney Including music by Purcell De Murcia Kirchner Ortiz During the 17th-century, as the doctrine of reasoned and rational scientific enquiry was gaining hold, a very different human passion for new hypnotic dance-tunes swept across Europe and the New World. Driven by repeated chord patterns, often strummed on the guitar, these powerful folias, chacona, passecalles held sway into the 18th century and beyond, some were considered so risqué that to be caught performing them would lead to banishment from the kingdom… or imprisonment in the galleys. MUSICIAN BIOGRAPHIES Laoise O'Brien studied recorder at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam having completed an undergraduate degree in concert flute at theCollege ofMusic inDublin. She also holds a Masters degree in Performance and Musicology from NUI Maynooth.Laoise has performed with all the major early music groups inIrelandincluding the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Camerata Kilkenny and the Irish Consort and appears regularly in concert series and festivals throughout the country. She has also performed and recorded with international ensembles such as the Royal Wind Music,Amsterdam. In 2011 Laoise released an album 'How Happy for the Little Birds' as part of a collaborative project with the Kilkenny-based artist Lorna Donlon. Laoise has recently been awarded a recording grant from the Arts Council of Ireland and is currently recording an album, again in collaboration with Lorna Donlon, which will be released in October 2012. Laoise lectures at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and is in regular demand as an examiner, adjudicator & tutor. She is actively involved in the city's vibrant Arts andHeritage scene. www.laoiseobrien.com Malachy Robinson is a prize-winning graduate of London’s Guildhall School of Music and holds a Masters degree in Historical Musicology from the University of London. He has appeared with period-performance bands the Irish Baroque Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, the OAE, the Sixteen and the English Concert; he has also founded some of his own, Trio Quattro and Armoniosa in which he plays his G-violone. He is principal double-bass with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and a founder member of Dublin’s Crash Ensemble and Louth’s EQ Ensemble. He has performed with the Vanbrugh, Callino, Con Tempo, Parisii, T’ang and Vogler String Quartets. Guitarist, Eamon Sweeney began his musical studies on the violin, picked up a guitar while in his teens and subsequently studied classical guitar with Dr John Feeley at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. While there he was exposed to the Baroque guitar, igniting his fascination with the instrument and inspiring his doctoral research into the guitar’s role as a continuo instrument in the court of Louis XIV, an unexplored area of French Baroque music.
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