Friday, January 9, 2015

Chris's Chorus, May 2015


 May 2015
“At the still point of the turning world” is brought to you by Age & Opportunity in association with Clare County Arts Office. Artists Maria Kerin and Eleanor Feely celebrate the creativity of concertina player Chris Droney through dance, performance and image. The artists are working on a participatory dance piece based on Chris’s hand movements, his connection with the audience and his performance style. 
It will be performed on the 1st of May in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, at 4pm, with participants from the Ennistymon Community Hospital and others from the locality. Following the performance, fellow Clare concertina player Jack Talty will interview Chris about his composing and unique style of playing. All are welcome to this unique multimedia celebration of one of Irelands finest traditional Irish musician, now in his nineties. 

After this launch of Bealtaine festival celebrating creativity as we age, the artists will then tour with Chris to day care centres in the County throughout the month of May, to give them an opportunity to meet and hear Chris play, learn the hand dance and participate in Chris’s Chorus. 

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