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Brìghde Chaimbeul & Maxwell Quartet: Thar Farraige (Over Sea)

Sat 8 Feb
Folk

Brìghde Chaimbeul & Maxwell Quartet: Thar Farraige (Over Sea)

Award-winning composer Linda Buckley’s ‘Thar Farraige (Over Sea)’ will be performed with Brìghde Chaimbeul and Maxwell Quartet. They explore contemporary chamber music embracing both Irish and Scottish traditional music and language, songs of love and loss, connections to place, migration, and our idea of what home means.


Commissioned by Chamber Music Scotland and supported by PRS Foundation, this work composed for small pipes, string quartet, and live electronics, draws on Scottish and Irish folk traditions, exploring the potential meeting points and new pathways of contemporary classical and folk music.

Since its debut, Thar Farraige (Over Sea) has resonated with audiences around the world including Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, Northern Ireland’s Moving On Music, Norway’s Hemsing Festival and September Me in the Netherlands.

‘This project will weave together many strands of my musical self to create a cohesive whole, an immersive experience for the listener drawing upon themes of emigration/migration, and our sense of home and how that can be carried with us’ – Linda Buckley

This event will last approximately 1 hour, without an interval.

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The Venue 
Our performance spaces are situated on the lower ground floor. Hall One, Hall Two and St Pancras are located in level -2, reached by stairs, escalator and lift from the ground floor entrance level.

Event Times 
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  • We recommend arriving in good time before the performance. The Hall doors will open 30 minutes before the performance to allow time to take your seats, or to choose a space for standing shows.
  • Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance where possible

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Food & Drink

Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.

Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.

Reviews

‘The Irish composer combines traditional séan-nos singing with an electronic soundscape, connecting past and future … It’s clear how much Buckley deeply connects her past to her present, opening up possibilities for our mutual musical futures.’ The Guardian on Linda Buckley

‘Chaimbeul has brought Scottish piping to a new audience with her captivating style, which has affinity with psychedelic drone as well as the folk traditions of the north.’ The Quietus on Brìghde Chaimbeul

‘brilliantly fresh, unexpected and exhilarating’ The Scottish Herald on Maxwell Quartet

Date:Sat 8 Feb
Start time:7pm (Doors: 6.30pm)
Venue:Hall One

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