Ireland’s Poet-Patriots
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, who will be taking part in the concert, grew up on Inis Oirr and Cape Clear Island. As both communities are GaeltachtaÌ (Irish speaking areas), Muireann's first language is Irish. This background influenced her musical career, especially in the Sean nós tradition.
By Chris Ryan, Contributor
Richard B. Evans, an American-born composer and musician, has been immersed in Irish music and culture for decades, and his exploration of the events leading to 1916 is about to come to American audiences in a live, full-length musical production commemorating the Centennial.
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Ireland’s Poet-Patriots is a full evening’s concert marking the centennial of the Easter Rising and illuminating 113 years of turbulent Irish history through the words of Ireland’s own poets and patriots. The music marries original crossover classical music with Irish traditional music. The poignant poems, speeches, eulogies, essays, and lyrics of those poets and patriots express “art as politics,” dissent through humor, outrage through irony, and mystical poetry as reconciliation between and among people and their history.