Get Culture Night off to a great start with this lunchtime performance by students of the prestigious Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. https://www.uch.ie/show/culture-night-at-university-concert-hall-taste-of-trad/
Performers: Karen Tweed and Timo Alokotila The album, May Monday, began its life with a meeting at Halkaerkro Festival in Denmark in1998, and in order to celebrate 25 years of friendship and music, this iconic duo are touring Orkney and Ireland in September 2024. What makes Karen and Timo so special is their ability to … Continue reading "Lunchtime Concert – Karen Tweed and Timo Alokotila"
Presenters: Professor Amanda Clifford, Dr Steven Byrne, Siobhán O'Reilly, and Emily Jenkins Chair: Dr Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain This seminar features movement and music interventions in a variety of cultural contexts. We present interdisciplinary case studies of programmes with older adults, men’s sheds, intergenerational groups and dance for cancer. We look at how the intervention programmes … Continue reading "Tower Seminar – Music and Movement for Health: Case Studies, Collaboration and Co-Creation"
Performers: Dr Óscar Mascareñas and Tony Monahan AIRE is an invitation to sit and listen. A conversation beyond words through shared sound, silence and space. AIRE (from the Irish ‘attention’) is a practice, developed by Óscar Mascareñas and Tony Monahan, that has its origins in the idea of inter-being (promoted by Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich … Continue reading "Lunchtime Concert – AIRE"
American saxophonist and composer Benjamin Boone, a Professor of Music at California State University Fresno, came to collaborate with this all-star band of John Daly (drums), Joe O’Callaghan (guitar), Dan Bodwell (bass) and JaYne (voice) while serving a U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in 2022-23. … Continue reading "Special Event – Benjamin Boone’s Confluene Quintet"
Performers: Niall Keegan, Conal O’Kane, and Alec Brown Niall Keegan has worn many different hats across two decades of service at the Irish World Academy. Aside from his genre-defining research in Irish traditional music, he has mentored generations of Ireland’s finest musicians … Continue reading "Lunchtime Concert – Niall Keegan, Conal O’Kane, and Alec Brown"
Presenters: Dr Sorcha de Brún and Dr Iarla Ó Lionáird Chair: Dr Aileen Dillane Dr De Brún will present “A pine deal board for our bed”: Ecology, Masculinities and Amhráin Ghrá na Gaeilge”, exploring tensions between the language of … Continue reading "Tower Seminar – Irish Language Song Ecologies"
Performer: Steve Ryan This performance explores the many ways of songwriting; melody, rhythm, harmony, lyrics, emotion, passivity, noise, experience, indecision, purpose, nonsense, interference, elation, dissonance... Through this solo song performance, Steve will disentangle, deconstruct and demonstrate the elements he uses in his songwriting practice. Steve is the founding member and principal songwriter of seminal Irish … Continue reading "Lunchtime Concert – The Songwriting Challenge"