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Táimid buíoch de na daoine seo a leanas a thug cabhair dúinn agus an Fhéile Ealaíon á eagrú.

We would like to thank the Arts Council and other key funders, sponsors and friends for their continued and vital support. We would also like to thank you, the audience and look forward to seeing you in Clifden in September. Réamhrá

Clifden Arts Festival heart of our community 2021 will be different and by doing so we will from other Festivals blaze a trail to bigger over our 44-year history. audiences and a return Regrettable due to to the larger Festivals of the ongoing COVID-19 previous years. pandemic audience VISUAL capacity at venues will 2 Clifden Arts Festival will ARTS be severely reduced. It endeavour to ensure is regrettable that many that as many people as who wish to be present possible can get to enjoy at live events will not events through the Arts- be able to attend this On-Air on Connemara year due to the reduced Community Radio and number of tickets our Digital Events on the available. Festival website.

In continuing with a Festival for 2021 Clifden GENERAL Arts Festival is in a sense 18 hoping to keep a glow in PROGRAMME the artistic fire at the

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Email: [email protected] DIGITAL Full Programme online at clifdenartsfestival.ie 46 EVENTS We ask patrons to be seated at least 10 minutes before scheduled performance times. It may not be possible to admit latecomers at some events.

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Reini Gahan, 20 Years And Counting Winter Evening Glaslilaun Beach Independent Exhibitions

The Visual Arts Programme 2021

The visual arts have been an important component of the Clifden Arts Festival since its inception. Connemara has a magnetic effect on artists of all genres but particularly visual artists. Being immersed in the wild beauty of this place has inspired visual artists for centuries. This year we hope to inspire you with a window trail around the town featuring the work of over sixty artists connected to Connemara. We also have eleven solo and Deborah Watkins group shows involving over twenty artists. The Alchemy of Colour Deborah trained as a ceramic designer at the Our invited artists this year are: National College of Art and Design. She has Jimmy and Hetty Lawlor, father and daughter, been living and working in Connemara since who will exhibit in the Clifden Arts Festival she graduated in 1991. Deborah makes low Gallery at Connemara Carpets Showroom. relief wall hangings in clay that are inspired by Jimmy’s work is based on the Irish sense of the landscape and coastline of the area. She humour, featuring ordinary people in surreal also paints her subject matter and these two surroundings. very different mediums feed into each other Hetty is a twenty one year old art student and into her creative process. who has taken the Irish Art scene by storm Deborah teaches ceramics to adults at after being a Finalist on Sky Arts’ Portrait the Elm Tree Centre in Clifden, a mental Artist of the Year, and having her work health day centre serving the Connemara accepted at the RHA. community. Joe Hogan - Joe is one of Ireland most This exhibition is an exploration of the renowned basket weavers. His work has Connemara landscape in vivid colour through developed from creating traditional functional the mediums of paint and clay. It consists of a weaving baskets to contemporary sculptural series of paintings and ceramic wall hangings forms. Joe has been instrumental in keeping as well as some three - dimensional vessels. the tradition of basket weaving alive in Ireland The theme of the exhibition is the energy and at a time when many traditional crafts have alchemy of colour. disappeared. VENUE | LAVELLE GALLERY, MAIN ST. Kathleen Furey - Kathleen is a Galway CLIFDEN artist living in Oughterard. Kathleen’s work responds to experiences and surroundings. It deals with memory, loss and moments of realisation. Recent work explores how text Please Note: and image combine to produce narrative Visual Arts programme of events and reflects on how information comes to us as listed are correct at the time of through marks on a surface, how we discover publication. Events and venues may be traces of people who lived before us and how subject to change. we interpret their stories and histories.

4 clifden arts festival 2021 Bernie Dignam Connected This is a retrospective exhibition devoted to the discipline of Printmaking. I want to Aldo Balding show the connection between different Aldo was born in Southsea and studied at the printmaking techniques & themes. The work faculty of Art and Design in Southampton. He of my colleague, Irish Printmaker Margaret worked as a freelance illustrator in London Irwin West led me to explore print in depth by for years, and his work was featured on the attending workshops with Lorg Printmakers covers of various magazines, including The Galway, Galway Print Studio, Graphic Studios Sunday Times Culture Magazine, The TV Dublin & Black Church Print Studio Dublin. times, and Punch. I continue to expand my practice from my He then moved to the Languedoc region of studio in Moyard as I explore the medium France and decided to work full time at his art. further. He is represented by a number of Galleries in | CONNEMARA CREATIVE the UK, USA, France, and South Africa. VENUE GALLERY, TOOREEN, MOYARD. H91 HCR7 VENUE | WHITETHORN GALLERY, MAIN ST. CLIFDEN

Dympna Heanue/ Tania Reini Gahan Doyne/Breda Lowth Connemara – 20 Years and Three Points Of View Counting VENUE | STEAM, STATION HOUSE | SIGNAL BOARDROOM, VENUE COMPLEX STATION HOUSE

Mark Joyce Kathleen Davis A Connemara Landscape The Rockpool Collection

VENUE | JOYCE’S CRAFT SHOP, RECESS VENUE | JOYCE’S CRAFT SHOP, RECESS

clifden arts festival 2021 5 Kathleen Furey Side By Side The title “Side by Side”, are words taken from a newspaper article from 1920 which details an incident during the War of Independence when Kathleen’s grandfather and his brother Patricia Morrison were taken from their home at night during a Shades of Autumn raid by Auxiliary forces. Botanical Art Exhibition by Patricia Morrison The paintings, prints and collage works at her studio ( or outdoors, weather reference public and private documents permitting) in Derrigimlagh, during Clifden and recollections and explore how text Arts Festival. and image combine to produce narrative. By appointment : call 087 6569255 Words and images derived from sketch books, newspaper reports, historical VENUE | PATRICIA’S STUDIO documents, poetry and song, are combined DERRYGIMLAGH with printmaking, painting and watercolour processes to produce mixed-media works. The hand-coloured lino prints are based on images drawn by her grandfather in the late 1970’s/1980‘s. Patrick Furey was born in County Galway in 1899. His drawings, created towards the end of his life, reflect his experiences and interests. There are eight prints in the series to date, in the style of the Cuala Press. The paintings reference her own and her grandfather’s images and deal with the idea of violence in a peaceful setting and how the landscape we inhabit today may have been the setting for violent acts at another time. The collage works are part of an ongoing Connemara Blue series combining images and words with Húicéirí na Gaillimhe fragments of historical documents.

VENUE | THE PINK HOUSE, VENUE | GALLERY BESIDE HEDZ, MARKET SQUARE STATION HOUSE

6 clifden arts festival 2021 The broken vessel might be considered Broken Vessels revolutionary. Deconstructed to rebuild anew, Noelle Gallagher & Christine in a broken state in need of mending, it holds Dixie, Louise Manifold & the melancholy potential of unintentional beauty when reconstituted. The water tanks, Monique Pelser, Anne Marie reservoirs and ova rooms at the hatchery site Deacy & Lesego Rampolokeng encapsulate and harbour such resonances. Broken Vessels is a site specific, international In its current state of re-assemblage and collaborative arts project curated by South re-imaging of its once ‘assimilation of nature’, African artist Brent Meistre of curatorial harvesting and nurturing was done by hand platform Analogue Eye. Situated in the unique and machine. The artists intervene, adopt and environs of the Inagh Valley of Connemara, re-animate the space, exploring intersecting it brings three Irish and three South African narratives. artists to collaborate in the work space The works will be accessed by walking and Interface. Responding to structures of the negotiating the space. Irish artists are-Louise former salmon hatchery, they engage with Manifold, Anne Marie Deacy and Noelle themes of containment, displacement and Gallagher. South African artists are Christine rebuilding across a range of artistic practices, Dixie, Lesego Rampolokeng and Monique including print, spoken word and film. Pelser.

VENUE | INTERFACE INAGH, INAGH VALLEY

clifden arts festival 2021 7 Hetty Lawlor, now at the age of 21 years has Art from Scratch seen many successes like her dad before her. A collection of paintings by Hetty Both are recipients of the coveted Tesco Lawlor and her father Jimmy Lawlor Children’s Art competition, Jimmy in 1984, and Hetty in 2018. Jimmy Lawlor has been exhibiting for over 30 years now, and is a well established and It seems that 2018 was the start of something regarded artist. His work is surreal, and the big for Hetty, as not alone did she win the catchy titles of his work are genius! He has Childrens Texaco Art Competition this year, appeared in many exhibitions both in Ireland but she was also a finalist, the youngest ever, and worldwide, with positive acclaim. in the Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year. In between painting for exhibitions and Painting celebrities like David Tennant, Lily commissions, his work is also sold in his own Cole, Simon Callow, Emili Sande and Geri gallery in Westport, Co. Mayo, The Lawlor Halliwell (Ginger Spice), and the first year she Gallery, and on-line on his website was commissioned to paint the Clifden Arts www.jimmylawlor.com Festival poster. Jimmy has been designing the Clifden Arts Both Artists were filmed for the documentary Festival posters on and off since the late 90’s, ‘Exhibitionist – Road to the RHA, which one of the commissions he totally enjoys doing. followed them both on their journey of painting and submitting a piece of artwork to be considered for exhibition in the RHA. Both artists were successful in achieving this and exhibited together. Hetty went on to win the Niccolo d’Ardia Caracciolo award for youngest artist. She was commissioned in 2020 to paint Ms Justice Mary Laffoy for the Kings Inn, centre of Irish Law. Both artists continue to paint private commissions, and work on their own pieces for exhibition.

Sponsored by: Peter and Paula Vine

TIME | 2.30PM DAY | SATURDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER VENUE | STATION HOUSE THEATRE ADMISSION | €10

32 clifden arts festival 2021 Manchán Magan Manchán Magan explores the underlying connections that our ancestors saw between all things, from fields and flowers to hawks and waves in this chat about his best-seller Thirty-Two Words for Field. He shares how the richness of a language closely tied to the natural landscape offered our ancestors a more magical way of seeing the world, and highlights some of the many evocative words that reveal insights into our culture, landscape and psyche, as well as the hidden realms of the Otherworld. The Henry Girls The Henry Girls are sisters Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin from the most Northerly part of Co. Donegal. The trio formed as a professional music group in 2001 and have recorded 6 studio albums, a couple of EPs and a live album of music by The Boswell Sisters of New Orleans (February 2020). Infused with the rich cultural heritage of their native Donegal but with a transatlantic flavour their music has been described as ‘full bodied and powerfully dynamic’. They have successfully learned to interweave their traditional roots with contemporary elements, earning them both commercial Téann Manchán ar thóir léargais ar na success and spectacular critical acclaim ceangail agus na nascanna a bhí idirgach on both sides of the Atlantic. The Henry réimse don domhan agus don nádúr sa Girls have played at many festivals all over chaint seo atá bunaithe ar aleabhar Thirty- Europe and beyond and they regularly tour Two Words for Field. Léiríonn sé cuid de na in countries like Germany, Holland, Austria, tuiscintí faoi chúrsaí timpeallachta, anama UK, Ireland and USA. agus oidhreachta atá le fáil sa Ghaeilge, chom maith leisan gaol láidir a bhí idir an Sponsored by: Off the Square saol seo agus an Saol Eile. TIME | 8PM Sponsored by: Joe and Joan McBreen DAY | SATURDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER VENUE | CLIFDEN TOWN HALL TIME | 5PM ADMISSION | €15 DAY | SATURDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER VENUE | STATION HOUSE THEATRE ADMISSION | €10

clifden arts festival 2021 33 Sunday 19th September Celebrating Seán Ó Riada: Peter Browne in Conversation with Sean Ó Sé This year saw the 50th anniversary of the death of Seán Ó Riada in October1971 - his life’s work was immense and his influence is far-reaching even to this day. This work includes his classical Deirdre Millane Deirdre Millane has been immersed in compositions, orchestral arrangements of Irish Traditional music from a young age. traditional music, film music e.g Mise Éire, Deirdre started her musical journey, like his academic work in UCC, his illustrated most others, on the tin-whistle in her local lectures on traditional music and song on Comhaltas branch and within a couple radio and television and the formation of the of years she decided that her musical group Ceoltóirí Chualann which created a endeavours were best suited to the piano. new way for ensemble playing of traditional Deirdre sought to further enrich her music. musicality by studying classical piano and Today’s talk looks at just one aspect of the theory of music. Although she much Seán Ó Riada’s importance; his interaction preferred the lively nature of traditional with radio in the 1960s with the series “Our music, this foundation greatly enhanced her Musical Heritage” and the programmes understanding of musical elements such with Ceoltóirí Chualann - “Reacaireacht an as structure, harmony, melody and rhythm. Riadaigh” and“Fleadh Cheoil an Raidió”. Deirdre continued her studies at The Irish World Academy where she completed a One of those who knew Seán Ó Riada well is BA in Irish Music and Dance. During her singer Seán Ó Sé, a close family friend, who time in UL, Deirdre further honed her skills participated in much of his musical work in playing and composing and also gained over the years. His memories and insights the opportunity to learn from many great will be of great value and interest today. pianists she looked up to over the years Peter Browne is from Dublin - uilleann piper, such as Míchéal Ó Súilleabháin, Liam flute and tin-whistle player,lecturer, record Bradley, Francis Ward, Caoimhin Vallely and producer and former RTÉ radio producer Ryan Molloy. and presenter. He has been active in the She is currently teaching in Scoil Eoin, traditional music world from a very early Balloonagh in Tralee and is delighted to fulfill age and has a particular interest in the her life-long ambition of releasing a solo history of how this music has interacted piano album. with radio broadcasting in quite a dynamic way over the years. She is currently a resident musician with the show ‘Turas’ in Siamsa Tíre, The National Sponsored by: John Fanning Folk Theatre of Ireland.

34 clifden arts festival 2021 Gallery Press Presents: Grace Wilentz and Annemarie Ní Churreáin Grace Wilentz is a poet based in Dublin’s The Liberties. She was recently granted a 2021 Next Generation Artist Award from the Arts Fiachra Garvey Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Her first Fiachra Garvey, ARAM, has performed in collection, The Limit of Light (The Gallery venues from the Fazioli Auditorium in Italy to Press), was named one of the best books of London’s Wigmore Hall. He has also been a 2020 in the Irish Independent. prizewinner at AXA Dublin International Piano Competition (Brennan Prize and McCullough Grace Wilentz was born in New York City and Bursary), EU Piano Competition Prague grew up in Greenwich Village. A graduate (concerto finalist), and 3rd Soirees-Concours of Harvard University, with postgraduate Internationales de Piano a Collioure, France degrees from Oxford University and (Audience award). The National Concert Hall University College Dublin. She moved to Dublin awarded Fiachra the “Rising Star” prize Ireland in 2005 to study the Irish language in 2011, which subsequently led to a series of and became an Irish citizen in 2015. concerto and solo debuts. Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Recent highlights include the first classical Donegal Gaeltacht. Her publications include recital at Google Dublin, a series of solo Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017) and Town (The and two piano recitals in Japan, a tour of Salvage Press, 2018). She is a recipient of China including giving masterclasses at the The Next Generation Artist Award from the Beijing Conservatory of Music, as well as Irish Arts Council and a co-recipient of The appearances at Spoleto Festival Italy, Wexford Markievicz Award. She is a former literary Opera, Brighton Festival, West Cork Chamber fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude Music Festival, Bridgewater Hall Manchester in Germany and the Jack Kerouac House and The Geneva Festival, Switzerland. of Orlando. Ní Churreáin was the 2019-20 Writer in Residence at Maynooth University Fiachra is the Founder and Artistic Director of Ireland and a 2020 Artist In Residence of the West Wicklow Festival, Co-Founder and at The Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris. Her Artistic Director of Classical Vauxhall and sits second full-length poetry collection is on the board of the Dublin International Piano forthcoming with The Gallery Press in 2021. Competition. He is hugely grateful for the www.studiotwentyfive.com support he has received from the Arts Council (Professional Development Award 2020) and Sponsored by: Bobby and Truly Gilmore the Wicklow Arts Office (Artist Award Scheme 2020). TIME | 4PM DAY | SUNDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER Clifden Arts Festival is grateful for the VENUE | STATION HOUSE THEATRE longstanding support of the Dublin ADMISSION | €10 International Piano Competition. Sponsored by: Ann Corcoran

TIME | 7PM DAY | SUNDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER VENUE | CHRIST CHURCH ADMISSION | €20

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Cathal Hayden is an internationally Máirtín O’Connor, renowned banjo and fiddle player who lives Cathal Hayden and and breathes music. When not performing to packed venues in America, China or Seamie O’Dowd Australia, Cathal is just as content playing in Máirtín O’Connor’s name has been the quiet local family pub renowned for it’s synonymous with the accordion for decades great music sessions. He has contributed to both as a master of the instrument and as a many albums as a session musician and is a musician and composer. His skill, dexterity, founding member of the band “Four Men and innovation and versatility have won him a Dog”. acclaim around the world. .He has received For more than two decades, O’Connor, many accolades over the years and his Hayden and O’Dowd have recorded and career has been documented in Sé Mo toured around the world. They have recorded Laoch on TG4.His composition “The Mighty two CDs, Crossroads and Going Places. The Ocean” was televised on TG4 recently to trio have toured with Christy Moore, and much critical acclaim. with Martin Hayes as part of the ‘Masters of Seamie O‘Dowd is a wonderful guitarist, Tradition concerts’. singer, and songwriter. He has travelled Sponsored by: Bill and Denise Whelan worldwide, sharing stages with many musical greats including Christy Moore, TIME | 9PM The Chieftains, Tommy Emmanuel, Matt DAY | SUNDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER Molloy, and Rick Epping. A defining member VENUE | CLIFDEN TOWN HALL of Dervish for over a decade, he has also ADMISSION | €20 released three critically acclaimed solo albums.

36 clifden arts festival 2021 Monday 20th September The Third Sex? Kerry Hardie and Joyce, Yeats and Geraldine Mitchell Geraldine Mitchell has published four the New Woman collections of poetry, the most recent being Declan Kiberd was for many years Professor Mute/Unmute (Arlen House, 2020). She of Anglo-Irish Literature at UCD and later won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award Keough Professor of Irish Studies at Notre in 2008 for her first collection, World Dame. He has served on Board of Directors Without Maps. Her other collections are of Abbey Theatre and as Director of both Of Birds and Bones and Mountains for Yeats Summer and Winter Schools. Among Breakfast. She is also the author of two his books are Synge and the Irish Language, novels for children, published in the Attic Inventing Ireland, Irish Classics, The Irish Press ‘Bright Sparks’ series, and of Deeds Writer and the World, and After Ireland. He Not Words, the biography of the late Muriel has been a visiting professor in many places, Gahan, champion of rural women and the including Cambridge University, Sorbonne, traditional Irish crafts. Geraldine Mitchell Duke University, Cluj Romania, Trento Italy. was born in Dublin, but after living and Sponsored by: John Fanning working in France, Algeria and Spain for many years, she moved to Co Mayo where TIME | 11AM she now lives. DAY | MONDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER VENUE | STATION HOUSE THEATRE Kerry Hardie’s eighth collection Where Now ADMISSION | €10 Begins was published by Bloodaxe Books in November, 2020. This is the second collection she has published with Bloodaxe, Tommy Sands the previous one, The Zebra Stood in Tommy Sands, Co Down’s singer, songwriter The Night, was shortlisted for the Irish and social activist has achieved something Times Award. There are also six previous akin to legendary status in his own lifetime. collections published by the Gallery Press. From the pioneering days with the highly She has won many prizes (including the influential Sands Family, bringing Irish Music Michael Hartnett Award, a Patrick Kavanagh from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Moscow’s Award, The Suspended Sentence Award, Olympic Stadium, he has developed into The Laurence O’Shaughnessy Award.) Her one of the most powerful songwriters and work has been widely translated and has enchanting solo performers in Ireland today. been much anthologized in Ireland and His song writing, which draws the admiration the U.K. She has also written two novels of Nobel Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney and [Harper Collins; Little, Brown], a radio play father of folk music Pete Seeger. (RTE), short stories, and has just completed another novel. She lives in Kilkenny with His songs, like There Were Roses, and her husband Seán, and is a member of Daughters and Sons, which have been Aosdána. recorded by Joan Baez, Kathy Matthea, Dolores Keane, Sean Keane, Frank Patterson, Sponsored by: The Quay House Dick Gaughan, The Dubliners and many others have been translated into many languages. TIME | 4PM DAY | MONDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER Sponsored by: Guys Bar VENUE | STATION HOUSE THEATRE TIME | 1PM ADMISSION | €10 DAY | MONDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER VENUE | CHRIST CHURCH ADMISSION | €10 clifden arts festival 2021 37 Monday 20th September Tuesday 21st September

LECTURE BY TONY BATES “BEGIN AGAIN ...” How do we want to live as we emerge into the Gatehouse new normal? Roscommon based Gatehouse have been The past eighteen months have challenged performing together since 2014, and boast each of us in different ways. Lives were a top-class lineup of traditional musicians disrupted, isolation and loss were endured including singer Rachel Garvey, Jacinta by many, and livelihoods threatened. We McEvoy on guitar and concertina, John found ourselves immersed in a crisis that McEvoy on fiddle and mandolin and John revealed our vulnerabilities and made us Wynne on flutes and whistles. aware of creative resources in our lives. Times of crisis can leave us uniquely poised Gatehouse’s exciting blend of flute and to change and grow as human beings. What fiddle coupled with Rachel’s captivating have we learned over the past eighteen singing and Jacinta’s sensitive guitar playing months that we want to hold onto? What do delivers a heady cocktail of tasteful songs we want to let go? This talk will explore how and exciting instrumentals. we can harness the learnings of Covid and Since the release of their highly acclaimed live in a more authentic way. debut album, Tús Nua in 2016, Gatehouse Tony Bates was Head of Psychology for 30 has been performing regularly at venues years in St James’s Hospital, Dublin until throughout Ireland and Europe. Gatehouse 2006. Trained for seven years in the USA has been variously described as: ‘An with Cognitive Therapy Centre in University unerring delight’ (The Irish Times), of Pennsylvania. Established MSc in ‘... a group at their very best vocally and Cognitive Psychotherapy in TCD (1997) and instrumentally’ (Irish Music Magazine), was course Director until 2006. Founded Altan’s Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh describes Jigsaw – The National Centre for Youth their 2019 album ‘Heather down the Moor’, Mental Health (2006). Appointed Adjunct as ...’a joy to listen to’. Professor of Psychology UCD (2018). Sponsored by: Tom King’s Bar Currently he is a consultant role to various Government Departments. Tony lives TIME | 8PM fulltime in North Sligo, on a cliff surrounded DAY | MONDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER by the sea. He looks after 4 hens, 3 cats, a VENUE | CLIFDEN TOWN HALL pair of rabbits and over 200 wild birds. ADMISSION | €15 Sponsored by: Toni and Terry McCoy

TIME | 11AM DAY | TUESDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER VENUE | STATION HOUSE THEATRE ADMISSION | €10 38 clifden arts festival 2021 Clifden Historical Walking Tours with Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill Explore the history of this 200-year-old town in the company of local historian Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill. Take in the town’s early industrial sites, the railway station, the 19th- century Bridewall (gaol) and the Catholic and Protestant graveyards. Hear stories of famine, war, religious conflict, street riots and political rallies. Learn about John D’Arcy, the founder of Clifden, and Alexander Nimmo, the 19th Century Scottish engineer who designed the Connemara road system that is still in use today.

Tour duration: approx 90 mins Tel: 087 647 1107 ConTempo Quartet Bogdan Sofei, Ingrid Nicola, Andreea | 11AM TIME Banciu, Adrian Mantu. DAY | TUESDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER VENUE | STATION HOUSE HOTEL Haydn - Quartet Op.74 No.3 ‘Rider’ ADMISSION | €10 Under 15 FREE Dave Flynn - ‘The Cranning’ Dvorak - Quartet Op.96 ‘American’ The ConTempo Quartet presents Dave Flynn’s remarkable trad - classical crossover string quartet which won the 2004 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Composers Prize. The composer writes: This piece is heavily influenced by the traditional music of my native Ireland. There are no traditional Irish melodies in the piece; however throughout the work & #39;s four movements there are techniques, modes, rhythms and feelings common to traditional Irish music. The programme opens and closes with popular classics by Haydn and Dvorak.