Concert featuring Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman, Harp & Guitar

October 9 @ 7 pm

Thistlerock Mead Company, 3075 Gables Run Road, Charlottesville

$30

The “celebrated partnership” of a “brilliant English master of the acoustic guitar” (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH)  with “the doyenne of Irish harpers” (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY) has presented its unique musical vision in twenty-four countries on five continents to venues ranging from the tiniest of village halls to palaces in Kyoto and Istanbul, London’s Barbican, Cologne's Philharmonie, and Town Halls from Sydney to Seattle.

Máire, steeped in the traditions of her native Co. Cork, is a recipient of Irish traditional music’s most prestigious award, Musician of the Year (Gradam Ceoil TG4 - Ceoltóir na Bliana) and a multiple All-Ireland winner; her 1985 solo album, 'The New Strung Harp’, was "a milestone in Irish harp music” (THE IRISH EXAMINER). “She is the great innovator of modern Irish harping, a…