Old World Traditions: Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri's Transylvanian Dance + Brìghde Chaimbeul Solo
Schedule
Sun Apr 13 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
St Cuthbert's Hamilton | Hamilton, ON
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A remarkable, powerhouse of a double bill with Romanian pianist LUCIAN BAN & NYC violist MAT MANERI's TRANSYLVANIAN DANCE duo + Scottish smallpipes player BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL solo.Zula Presents
Something Else!
Creative Music Series
Sunday,April 13
(7-9:30 pm)
St. Cuthbert's
2 Bond St. N., Hamilton, Ontario
Working together for more than a decade-and-a-half, Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and American violist Mat Maneri are renowned for their amalgamations of Transylvanian folk with improvisation, their mining of 20th Century European classical music with jazz, and for their pursuit of a modern chamber jazz ideal.
Drawing from their NPR Album Of the Year Transylvanian Folk Songs featuring legendary reeds-man John Surman and their new ECM duo release Transylvanian Dance, Ban and Maneri reimagine through improvisation the Béla Bartók Field Recordings of folk songs from Transylvania to bring back to life century old songs using live performance, audio from the original Edison wax cylinder recordings, rare handwritten manuscripts and photographs taken by Bartók himself in his field trips.
Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes – the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes – and she’s taken them to the global stage. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture.
She rose to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music, but has since begun a journey to take the smallpipes into uncharted territory. She has devised a completely unique way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity.
$28 advance tickets via Eventbrite or $35 at the door
[No one will be refused admission for lack of funds]
We are most grateful to Canada Council for the Arts & the Department of Canadian Heritage for making this special series event possible.
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Where is it happening?
St Cuthbert's Hamilton, 2 Bond St N, Hamilton, ON L8S 3W1, Canada,Hamilton, OntarioEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
