Event Guide

CARMINA

Special Concert at The Carnegie Arts Centre, Saturday 18^th July 2010

Time: 8.00 p.m.  Tickets: €15

Carmina are:

Pippa Marland  vocals, saxophones, whistles    Rob King  guitar, mandola, bodhrán

Geoff Castle  piano/synth,  Diarmaid Moynihan  uilleann pipes, whistles Brian Morrissey  banjo, bodhrán, whistles

Celtic folk/jazz pioneers Carmina have released five albums to date and toured worldwide, appearing at festivals from Europe to Australia. They began in Ireland, and have done over thirty tours here, including countless festivals such as Cork Jazz, the World Fleadh, Ballyshannon, Earagail Arts, Wexford Opera, etc.

Their new album My Crescent City is their second collaboration with Irish legend Dónal Lunny, who produced and guests on the album. Regarded as a perfect album of its genre, it was hailed as ‘absolutely gorgeous - a masterpiece’ (BBC Celtic Heartbeat) and voted Album of the Week on RTĖ 1 (2009).

Carmina’s band has some big names on the British and Irish roots/jazz scene as well as stars of Irish Traditional music. Singer and songwriter Pippa Marland has “a wondrous voice, capable of enchanting and emoting” (Time Out) and also adds alto/soprano saxes and whistles to the mix of instruments. She and masterful arranger/songwriter Rob King (acoustic guitar, bodhrán) are the founders/composers of Carmina. The band for this tour includes jazz maestro pianist Geoff Castle from London, and two highly-respected Irish traditional players, Brian Morrissey and Diarmaid Moynihan. All are multi-instrumentalists, presenting “a superb mix of jazz, folk and celtic crossover music” (Jack McGowran, Director, Cork Jazz Festival).

 “ gorgeously rich depth of colour” - Hot Press (Ireland); “A joy to visit and revisit” - Irish Times;

ALBUM OF THE WEEK Sept.’09 - RTE Radio 1 (Ireland);  “Their very name is a guarantor of the finest music…” – “Top 5 Folk albums 2007” - Nottingham Evening Post; “beautiful” - Aled Jones, BBC Radio 2;  “Top Ten Tracks of the Year” - The Crooked Road radio show; “the most lyrical album of the Celtic world” – El Pais, Spain