Traditional music updates
Gerry is playing The Cobalt Café this Saturday coming, the 16th, with three other musicians including a great kora player from Senegal, Solo Cissokho. This show is being produced by Improvised Music.
Gerry says: “We will all play solo and then together. I’ve no idea what we’ll do, always a nice prospect in music.
Also on the bill, free strawberries and cream!”
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (fiddle, hardanger fiddle)
Seán Mac Erlaine (bass clarinet, alto saxophone, electronics)
Nic Gareiss (percussive dance)
Petter Berndalen (drums, percussion)
Music Network writes: “Formed in 2010, This is How we Fly is a Contemporary Folk band consisting of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh on fiddle & hardanger fiddle, Seán Mac Erlaine on bass clarinet, saxophones & live electronics, Nic Gareiss on percussive dance, and Petter Berndalen on drums and percussion. Individually, each member has carved out a reputation for not just mastering their chosen fields, but rising above, redefining and renewing the musical world they come from. Initially brought together through a commission from the Dublin Fringe Festival (under the moniker Four on the Fringe of Folk) in September 2010 to play a one-off show, they received an unexpectedly rapturous response. Their music sees Swedish folk music rhythms meet the texture of traditional Irish fiddle, percussive dance from America & improvised jazz and electronics.”
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