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any of you, our valued audience members, have performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston asked about enjoying a beverage before our Pops for over 40 years. M performances. The Silver Moon Lounge will be PRISM, featuring the world-renowned Florida State open prior to all performances from 6:30 to 7:15 P.M., University College of Music, returns to Opening Nights on offering beer, wine, spirits and soft drinks for purchase. April 11 at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. Opening Nights Sponsors and Members may use their drink tickets for complimentary wine, beer and soft drinks. Then, I hope you’ll join us for an evening with Michael Rosato who kicks off the Chain of Parks Art Festival with a To comply with our mask requirement during the keynote address that will be available in person and virtually performance, drinks will not be allowed to leave the lounge. on April 15. We begin our April performances with Máiréad Nesbitt Thank you for joining us this season. We couldn’t do what Ensemble. Máiréad is known best as a former violinist with we do without your continued support. the popular all-female Irish singing group Celtic Woman. Her versatile playing and ability to capture the spirit and energy of Celtic and Irish classics have made her one of the most well-known Celtic violinists performing today.

To round out the performance, she will be joined by soprano Michael Blachly Ryann Murray and percussionist/keyboardist Neil Grover, Director, Opening Nights at Florida State University a Florida State University College of Music alumnus who

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Máiréad Nesbitt Máiréad’s solo albums, Raining Up and Hibernia, Jimmy Webb, Sharon Shannon, Paul Brady, have charted on four different Billboard and Frances Black, Cooney and Begley, Jimmy Continued from pg. 17 Heatseeker charts. The album Devil’s Bit McCarthy and Dónal Lunny’s Coolfin. Sessions features three generations of her Máiréad grew up in a multi-generational Máiréad has performed at both the White family and was recorded in the 300-year- musical family in County Tipperary. Her House and the Pentagon for four U.S. parents are renowned music educators and all old Nesbitt family home in County Tipperary, presidents. Additionally, among the hundreds five of her siblings are award-winning musicians! Ireland. of prestigious venues where she has performed Máiréad began her professional career A former all-Ireland fiddle champion and are Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red at sixteen with the prestigious Raidió Teilifís past member of the National Youth Orchestra Rocks Colorado and Hyde Park in London. of Ireland, Máiréad completed her studies Éireann (RTÉ) Concert Orchestra. Despite at Cork Institute of Technology, Cork School her young age, Máiréad’s playing was featured A guest soloist at Carnegie Hall in 2017 and of Music, under Cornelia Zanidache and at on the original soundtracks of the shows 2018 with renowned artists Sibylle Szaggars the London Royal Academy, with post- Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, and Feet of Redford and the Tim Janis Ensemble, she is graduate studies under Emanuel Hurwitz on Flames, resulting in touring the world featured with Tim Janis on Celtic Lands violin and piano. As musical influences, Máiréad as the lead fiddler with the latter two shows. available on Netflix. cites her family, along with a wide range of She composed the original music score for the Máiréad made her Broadway debut in 2018 musicians that includes classical violinist Itzhak show Irish Dance Invasion, is featured on the at the Broadway Theatre in the multi- Perlman, jazz great Stéphane Grappelli, Celtic Tenors’ Live in Concert DVD, genre spectacular , which had a six- bluegrass icon Alison Krauss, Irish fiddlers Liz and is the featured violin soloist on the Rocktopia ® week sold out run. Carroll, Michael Coleman, and Andy McGann, soundtrack of two Disney films, Tinker and rock performers like David Bowie, Sting, Bell and Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure. In addition to having her own successful and Bjork. Máiréad’s distinctive blend of traditional Irish signature line of violins, Máiréad has designed Máiréad has emerged as one of Ireland’s most and classical styles is featured in her work with a distinctive new jewelry collection, the in-demand musicians. Her multitude of awards such international artists as Nigel Kennedy, Máiréad Nesbitt Jewelry Collection. It include Irish Music Magazine’s Best Traditional Van Morrison, Sinéad O’Connor, Clannad, was recently debuted and is sold exclusively and Multi-Instrumentalist Artist awards. Emmylou Harris, Aslan, Chris De Burgh, on Jewelry Television and at JTV.com.

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We love Opening Nights and the staff! RYANN MURRAY (SOPRANO) Ryann is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. Her credits include Tony and Tina’s Italian Wedding on Norwegian Cruise Lines, featured artist on The North Shore Music Theatre stage and playing the role of Ti Moune in Once On This Island at the Historic Iao Theatre in Maui, HI. She was recently a featured artist in a series of concerts in Italy with Freda World Music. NEIL GROVER (PERCUSSION/ KEYBOARD) Neil was a percussionist with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops for over 40 years. He is the founder and former CEO of Grover Pro Percussion, a world-leading percussion instrument manufacturing company. As a musical conductor and arranger, he has worked with both Máiréad Nesbitt and Ryann Murray. Neil Grover is an alumnus of Florida State ® University’s College of Music and made a career Ryann Murray has been featured in Tony and Tina’s Neil is married to Tony nominated actress as a percussionist with the Boston Symphony and Italian Wedding and Once On This Island. Maureen Brennan. Boston Pops.

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