Updated / Monday, 15 Mar 2021
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Marking Seachtain na Gaeilge, this week s
Lyric Feature is a collaboration between Irish poet Louis de Paor and New York-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Dana Lyn - listen to
Lá dá raibh/One Day above.
Lá dá raibh/One Day combines poetry and music to tell the story of a day in the life of a small village in the west of Ireland, where the dead and the living meet historical and imagined characters.
It was first performed live (in English) at the Irish Arts Center in New York as part of the
Masters in Collaboration series, and has now been adapted as a captivating audio experience for radio.
Palaver Strings, Dana Lyn and Kyle Sanna return to Opera House for Coral Suite
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Palaver Strings. (Photo courtesy Bay Chamber Concerts)
Bay Chamber Concerts presents the virtual premiere of Coral Suite featuring Palaver Strings, Dana Lyn and Kyle Sanna, airing Thursday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m., on Bay Chamber’s YouTube channel.
Coral Suite is an evocative, multimedia performance that mirrors the life cycles and natural processes that occur within coral reef ecosystems. Drawing on the rich vocabulary of Irish melody, and using light boxes and animated projections featuring Dana Lyn’s artwork, Lyn and Sanna create an audiovisual poem for the reef, calling attention to the urgent need for its protection.
Taylor Mac s Holiday Sauce: Pandemic! Lends Some Subversive Visual Joy to Get You Through the Season
A holiday show that performing artist Taylor Mac first brought to the Curran in San Francisco two years ago,
Holiday Sauce, is back in virtual form in a new pandemic edition that s perfect for cuddling up to with your hot toddy as you suffer this COVID Christmas.
Mac said he conceived the show in 2017 after saying to himself, I’m going to use the holiday season to practice techniques for how to survive. (Mac says his preferred pronoun is judy but as he is a self-identified cis gay man, most critics have stuck with he/him.) And the live version at the Curran was, indeed, an exercise in how to subvert and reimagine the idea of a Christmas show, and Christmas music, for an LGBTQ and/or liberal-ally audience with a bawdy sense of humor. There was a recasting of O Holy Night involving some lewd hand gestures and emphasis on the word