Dinogad's Smock - Victoria

Join Ensemble Laude, Victoria's premiere treble voice choir, for a thrilling concert of singing, drumming, lilting, and dance celebrating powerful Celtic Queens, Princesses, and Warriors who led armies, changed national boundaries, left a wholly new world.

Our concert celebrates four Celtic warrior women of the ancient past:

• Scathach of Skye (Gaelic warrior queen, c. 200 CE)
• Gwenllian Ferch Gruffudd (Welsh warrior princess, c. 1100 CE)
• Medv Cruachna, Queen of Connaught (c. 1st centry, CE)
• Jeanne de Clisson - Breton pirate queen, c. 1300 CE)
• Plus! Music celebrating women's voices from Canada's Celtic nations - Newfoundland, Cape Breton, and Acadia

Hear haunting Irish solos, medieval Gaelic psalm singing, women's working music from the Outer Hebrides, Breton Kan ha diskan dance songs from Brittany, plus rousing choral music powerful enough to rally entire populations in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Brittany - and Canada!

All welcome!