Oct 8, 2024
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Charlottesville Waldorf School
Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman from BRIMS and WTJU
Máire Ní Chathasaigh on harp
Chris Newman on guitar
Tuesday, October 8th
7:00 p.m. at the Charlottesville Waldorf School
$20
Chris Newman & Máire Ní Chathasaigh The celebrated partnership of “one of the UK’s greatest guitarists” (BBC RADIO 2) with “the doyenne of Irish harpers” (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY) and recipient of Irish music’s most prestigious award, Traditional Musician of the Year (Gradam Ceoil TG4), has toured in twenty-three countries on five continents to venues ranging from the tiniest of village halls to palaces in Kyoto and Istanbul, London’s Barbican, Sydney Town Hall and Cologne's Philharmonie. Expect a breathtaking blend of traditional Irish music, hot jazz, bluegrass and baroque, spiced with striking new compositions - and Chris’ subversive wit!
”Brilliant, innovative harping and guitar-playing of astonishing virtuosity and versatility” * * * *SONGLINES “Dazzling” THE DAILY TELEGRAPH