Cultural Crossings Is the Result of a Partnership Between the Provost of the Coleraine Campus, University of Ulster, and Causeway Coast Arts
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CULTURAL FEB - MAR 2014 CROSSINGS Promoted by the Provost of the Coleraine campus, University of Ulster, in partnership with Causeway Coast Arts. CULTURAL FEB - MAR 2014 CROSSINGS Cultural Crossings is the result of a partnership between the Provost of the Coleraine campus, University of Ulster, and Causeway Coast Arts. They share a and repertoire. Their influence had commitment to supporting the arts and a lasting impact on the music of the engaging with local communities in the regions in which they settled. The Ballymoney, Coleraine, Limavady and fiddle, a distinctively Irish and Scottish Moyle Council areas. In pursuit of this instrument, plays a huge role in all common interest they are presenting a kinds of music including bluegrass, programme of arts and cultural events roots, folk and country. The accordion that reflects the musical and cultural and flute have also made their way influence of emigrants from Ireland. into music in many places throughout the world. Traditional Celtic music The Irish and Ulster-Scots traditions too has been influenced by migration enriched the music, dance and art and cultural interchange. Cultural of their new homelands as emigrants Crossings celebrates traditional music brought with them their instruments and its connections to cultures around the globe with an eclectic fusion of musical traditions. Interact Art 1 4 - 20 MARCH 2013 Exhibition OPEN DAILY St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, E2 9PA WHITHER THE ULSTER-ENGLISH WED 12 FEB | 8pm Ballymoney TownFREE ADMISSIONHall interact-uk.org.uk/interact-art-exhibition WHITHER THE ULSTER-ENGLISH THURS 6 FEB | 8pm Talk by Paddy Fitzgerald Ballymoney Town Hall Since the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement of 1998 a significant amount of energy has been expended in promoting awareness of THE DOWN AND OUT an ‘Ulster-Scots’ cultural identity. Ulster Protestants, of course, largely trace their family BLUEGRASS BAND roots here to the substantial inward migration of the seventeenth century, which drew upon In the last few years, the Down and Out Scotland, England and Wales. Bluegrass Band has established a reputation as one of Ireland’s finest bluegrass bands, Dr Fitzgerald, Lecturer and Development and is also making its mark beyond these Officer at the Mellon Centre for Migration shores. With Roy Brown on double bass, Mal Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park, will Duffin on fiddle, Richard Leeman on guitar, explore more fully the heritage and cultural Howard Walker on banjo, and John Denby on identity of those who may deem themselves mandolin the band plays traditional bluegrass in the early twenty-first century to be ‘Ulster- straight out of the foothills of Tennessee and English’. A primary question to be considered North Carolina. Their hard-driving banjo and is why this ethnic identity remains so much three-part vocal harmonies evoke the golden less prominent in our collective consciousness age of bluegrass, and are heavily influenced today than either ‘Ulster-Scots’ or ‘Ulster-Irish’. by classic artists such as Bill Munroe, Flat Looking towards the future, it will be argued and Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers. The that much of the richness which characterises band has performed widely throughout the the province’s cultural life derives from the UK and Ireland, including television and radio constant exchange and interplay between appearances, and released their first album, these three ethnic groups and the sense of Lowering the Tone, in 2013. ‘throughotherness’ which resulted. Admission: £9, conc. £7 Admission: £2 SAT 15 FEB | 8pm Riverside Theatre, Coleraine THE HENRY GIRLS The Henry Girls, three sisters from Donegal, The three are multi-instrumentalists who are establishing a reputation as one of the finest perform an eclectic mix of traditional Irish musical groups in Ireland. The group was formed music, folk and blues, with spine-tingling in 2002 and released its debut album, Between three-part vocal harmonies, to produce a Us, in 2003. Since then the trio has rapidly musical fusion of the Donegal coastline and gained critical acclaim at home and abroad. the Appalachian Mountains that combines something of our Irish heritage with a more In 2010 they were nominated for an Irish contemporary backdrop. Film and Television Award for Best Original Score for the film A Shine of Rainbows, which ...their music is a compelling combination featured songs from their third album, Dawn. that finely blends traditional Irish folk music Since the 2011 release of their much- with American bluegrass and soulful roots acclaimed December Moon, the sisters have music… a band not to be missed… brought their music to numerous international Irish American Post audiences, and are about to deliver their finest work to date in their forthcoming album, Louder than Words. Admission: £12, senior citizens £10, students £6 THE PLANTER & PLANTER ROCK'N'ROLL AND THURS 27 FEB | 8pm THE GAEL Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart Together In BLUEGRASS, COUNTRY Ulster Speech AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL: A SCOTCH-IRISH THURS 20 FEB | 8pm CULTURAL CROSSING Ballymoney Town Hall Talk by Alister McReynolds Author Alister McReynolds draws on his research and his new book, Kith and Kin, THE PLANTER AND to present a lively look at how popular music THE GAEL: TOGETHER genres emerged in America and how Scotch- Irish immigrants contributed to this fusion of IN ULSTER SPEECH culture and geography. Talk by S Alex Blair He will explore how Scottish and Irish tunes The Gaelic language still exerts a big influence mixing with black plantation rhythms, and the on the sound and colour, rhythm and texture emergence of African instruments such as the of our Ulster speech. However, the speech is banjo playing alongside fiddles and guitars, basically the English which the Planters brought helped to create bluegrass. There will be some to our northern province. It mingles with the surprising discoveries as he uncovers the Ulster Gaelic in an interesting and colourful harmony roots of many of the major travellers in this which is recognised beyond our shores. musical odyssey, including those of Clayton McMichen, fiddle player, Moon Mullican, boogie This talk, by popular local historian Alex woogie piano player, and Elvis Presley, the King Blair, will deal with the Gaelic and the Planter of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself. contributions to our speech, and he will discuss words and phrases from both sources. It is a Alister McReynolds is an Honorary Research talk full of humour which will give us a better Fellow at the Centre for Irish and Scottish understanding of the way we speak and help us Studies with the University of Ulster. He has to appreciate the united heritage we have in the lectured extensively in the United States on words we use each day. Scotch-Irish history and culture. Admission: £2 Admission: £2 AMERICAN TUNES Caledonian Hibernian Soul& THURS 6 MAR | 8pm Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart SAT 1 MAR | 8pm Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre, BAP KENNEDY Limavady IN CONCERT Belfast born singer and songwriter, Bab SARAH SAVOY Kennedy, has won a global audience for his music, which fuses elements of folk and rock The musical force that is Sarah Savoy and with Celtic soul. a top Cajun dance band with one foot in the honky-tonk and the other in the juke joint deliver His new CD, Let’s Start Again, is the much- a magnetic performance. Louisiana-born Sarah anticipated follow-up to his five-star album The Savoy is the eldest daughter of the legendary Sailor’s Revenge, which was produced by and Marc and Ann Savoy and sister of Wilson Savoy featured Mark Knopfler. The Sailor’s Revenge hit of the Pine Leaf Boys. She plays both guitar number five in the American Folk Roots Chart and washboard and, with an engaging line in and with Let’s Start Again, Bap’s music looks humorous chat, she wins over the audience set to continue making waves internationally. with her easy Southern charm. Over the last twelve months, he has toured Keeping the music traditional, with a nod with his band in America, Italy, Germany, to Cajun’s Irish and Scots musical origins and Holland, France, Norway and Switzerland as a little raunchiness and a lot of rock’n’roll well as throughout the UK and Ireland. thrown into the mix, this performance promises Now, with a collection of classic new songs, to be an unforgettable musical experience, Bap Kennedy is at the top of his game – with complemented by candlelit cabaret style a back catalogue that includes collaborations seating, ‘bring your own’ and room to dance the with Van Morrison, Steve Earle and Shane night away! MacGowan, this is a show not to be missed. A rocker’s voice and a solid guitar scratch... Kennedy’s approach blends country, folk and and what stage presence! Irish traditional textures with seamless skill. TRAD Magazine Hot Press Admission: £12, conc. £10 Admission: £15 AMERICAN TUNES Caledonian Hibernian Soul& TUES 11 MAR | 8pm FRI 14 MAR | 7.30pm Marine Hotel, North Street, Ballycastle Marine Hotel, North Street, Ballycastle AMERICAN TUNES: INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CALEDONIAN AND FROM GUADELOUPE HIBERNIAN SOUL AND IRELAND Talk by Frank Ferguson Traditional instruments and songs from The Atlantic has proved a valuable gateway Guadeloupe combine with traditional Celtic for centuries for the peoples and cultures music for an exploration of musical influences. of Scotland and Ireland to find new homes The music troupe Pitak, which includes and expression in America. Prominent in this musicians from Guadeloupe who are now interchange has been the ballad and song mainly based in Ireland, are part of the shifting tradition which has found exciting and radical musical dynamic in Ireland which contributes transformations in the New World. to expanding cultural horizons here.