“Celtic Reflection”

With TRIO OIRIALLA,

Music from Ireland & Brittany

TRIO OIRIALLA’S ONLY APPEARANCE IN ONTARIO!

Friday, October 12, at 7 and 9 pm at GigSpace, 953 Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa.

Tickets are $20 and should be reserved by calling GigSpace  (613)729-0693. 

Three-hour workshops will be given by Trio Oirialla’s renowned performers on Saturday, October 13, from 9:30 am-12:30 pm for just $30.00.

To pre-register for these sessions, and for more information please phone (613) 729-0693  

The Ottawa performance will just about complete Oirialla’s Canadian appearances at Cape Breton’s Celtic Colours Festival as well as Waterloo’s (QC) Maison de la culture. The Trio is brought to Ottawa by Celtic Harmonies International Festival. Composer and lover of all things Celtic Donald Patriquin is producing the concerts in Ottawa and Quebec.

Trio Oirialla is comprised of fiddler Gerry O'Connor, accordionist Martin Quinn, and Breton composer and guitarist Gilles le Bigot.  All of the musicians making up Oirialla are renowned in their own right, and perform frequently as soloists and ensemble players. Their bios follow. For images, information and sound clips, please visit 

http://gigspaceottawa.com/oirialla

Their music will showcase both Irish and Breton songs and tunes. Many of these come from the ancient, mystical Irish kingdom of Oriel whose music has developed as an eclectic mix of rhythms, melodies, and strong poetical lyrics.

The Oirialla trio may be heard in performance with Nuala Kennedy at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMfFDZCj9wY

Gerry O'Connor hails from Dundalk, a town close to the border with Northern Ireland, and is the product of four generations of fiddle players. His past recordings have focused strongly on local music and his work as a soloist and as a band member of Lá Lugh and Skylark is well known across the world. Over the past two decades he has recorded and performed with all the leading performers of the Irish music world including members of the Chieftains, Boys of the Lough, Planxty, De Dannan and Bothy Band. His solo album Journeyman has been hailed as one of the significant albums of Irish fiddle music. Gerry is also a violin-maker, music teacher and music producer and is currently directing a Traditional Music Initiative in a number of primary schools in the Drogheda area north of Dublin on the east coast of Ireland.

 Martin Quinn comes from a family of musicians and raconteurs of traditional stories from just outside the village of Mullaghabane in South Armagh, in the north-east corner of Ireland. He has performed and recorded with a number of eminent line-ups including Lá Lugh, Dorsa, Josephine Keegan, Angelina Carberry, Paul Bradley and Cathal McConnell. His self-titled album with Angelina Carberry was included in the top 10 list of Traditional recordings by Earle Hitchner of the Irish Echo, a prominent newspaper within the Irish-American community in USA. Martin has developed an innovative and unique approach to playing the bass on the Button Accordion, developing and tuning new chords for the instrument based on the regulators of the Uilleann Pipes. He is also in keen demand as an accordion restorer and accordion tutor. www.reeltrad.com