<html><div>Thank you Tom for this O'Carolan concert info! Hadn't heard of it until now. Hoping to make it! <br><br>---------- Original Message ----------<br>From: Tom Padula <tjpadula@earthlink.net><br>To: Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions announcement list <santa_cruz_celtic_slow_sessions@lists.sonic.net><br>Subject: [Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] Free O'Carolan concert<br>Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 19:01:41 -0700<br><br>Hi, all-</p><div> </div><div>Here's the information on the free upcoming O'Carolan concert this coming Sunday afternoon. We were discussing this a few weeks back. I hope to see some of you there.</div><div> </div><div>-Tom</div><div> </div><div> </div><div class="kmwttqpk n3t5jt4f l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq m8h3af8h gh25dzvf" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div style="font-family: inherit;" dir="auto">Free tickets! Hope you can come:</div></div><div class="kmwttqpk n3t5jt4f l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq gh25dzvf jikcssrz" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div style="font-family: inherit;" dir="auto">Concert celebrating Turlough O’Carolan</div><div style="font-family: inherit;" dir="auto">Sunday, October 9, 2022 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm</div><div style="font-family: inherit;" dir="auto">Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building</div><div style="font-family: inherit;" dir="auto">846 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060</div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff;">Tix here:</span></div><div> </div><div><a href="https://ucsctickets.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1656">https://ucsctickets.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1656</a></div><div> </div><div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">Celebrating the 350th Birthday of TURLOUGH O'CAROLAN, Ireland’s Most Famous Composer</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">Linda Burman-Hall, Director, harpsichord</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">Shelley Phillips, harp, Baroque oboes, folk flutes</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">William Coulter, guitar, bodhrán</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">Robin Petrie, hammered dulcimer</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">Deby Benton Grosjean, traditional fiddle, Baroque violin</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">John Weed, fiddle</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">Barry Phillips, ‘cello</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">A contemporary of J.S. Bach, Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738) was Ireland’s most famous harper. Though blinded by smallpox at age 18, a patron gave him a harp, a horse and a guide, and he supported himself for 50 years as an itinerant harpist, becoming the most famous of all Celtic composers.</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">O’Carolan composed in part by improvising, his works transcribed by others. The melodic lines that have come down often run through an ornate chordal harp texture. To play the tunes, musicians must decide suitable tempos, rhythms, harmonies, textures, and ornaments, and like O’Carolan, never repeat anything exactly. His music includes the most joyous tunes in the entire ‘6 Celtic Nations’ repertoire as well as airs of extraordinary melancholy.</div><div style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: #1a1c23; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" dir="auto">This project is supported by UCSC, in honor of Linda Burman-Hall’s award of an Edward A. Dickson Emerita Professorship (2019-2023). The performance will be eventually released as a CD recording. Thanks to UCSC Emeriti Associates, the Committee on Emeriti Relations, the Vice Chancellor, Chancellor, UCSC Endowments, and Music Department for support.</div></div></html>