DkIT music students to present trad concert
ÉIRÍ na Gréine, a concert of Irish traditional music featuring the next generation of musicians takes place tomorrow, Wednesday at 7pm in the MacAnna Theatre, Dundalk Institute of Technology
Presented by the Department of Creative Arts, Media and Music, the concert takes place as part of Seachtain na Gaeilge and celebrates the launch of the Institute’s Irish Language Scheme. Irish language song is an important and compul- sory element of the BA (Hons) Applied Music at the college and the concert will feature a number of choral arrangements of song in the Irish language, some of which are drawn from local traditions.
The performers are music students at DkIT at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The study of traditional music is a important part of the music department’s mission, and there are a number of students completing MA and PhD projects on a range of topics in this area. The DkIT Traditional Ensemble is a key performing group in the Department and it has been instrumental in raising the profile of DkIT on an international stage with recent performances in Norway, Scotland, Brazil and North America.
To reserve tickets to attend Éirí na Gréine at Dundalk Institute of Technology please email music@dkit.ie or telephone 042 9370280. 2
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