Accomplished musicians will play Calary Church this month
THE NEXT concert in 2018 Music in Calary series will feature Sean Carpio on drums, Mikkel Ploug on guitar and Simon Jermyn on guitar, Jeppe Skovbakke on bass and reed player Joachim Badenhorst.
These accomplished musicians will play a concert of original music in Calary Church which will speak about the placs of its origins, including Calary, in order to present a complex yet nuanced concert experience transforming musical elements of speech into music.
The quintet’s concert is part of the Stella Maris Project which will feature live performances in six Irish churches, including Calary. The project takes its name from the Stella Maris church in Magherabeg, Donegal.
The project is the brainchild of long time collaborators, Irish drummer Sean Carpio and Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug. The compositions they will perform are based on speech reverberations collected from these six churches around Ireland.
Carpio and Ploug visited each of the six churches to record actor Genevieve Hulme-Beaman reciting the poem How To Disappear by Egyptian poet Haytham El-Wardany. Whilst Genevieve recited the poem the same way each time, the connection of her voice with the acoustics of each individual church revealed six very different recordings. These were then used as the inspiration for the arrangement of an instrumental suite of new music for a quintet.
The final step of this formidable project is to revisit each of the churches where the recordings initially took place and to perform the resulting compositions live for its local audience.
The concert in Calary Church takes place on Thursday, June 28 at 8 p.m. Tickets are €18 and €15 for concessions and, to make a booking or for more information, please contact John at 01 2818146 or derekneilson@eircom.net.