If you come early (6.30 or 7 pm) barbecue food and home grown salads will be available. You can eat in the garden or, if it is wet, under cover.
For tickets (e18, food e10) email verelc@gmail.com or 042 9371490 and leave a message. You pay at the door but please reserve your tickets in advance. Directions to Anaverna are on www.anaverna.com/concerts/ and you can find out more about the quartet at www.carducciquartet.co.uk/

THE SCHUMANN STORY: Clara & Robert
A biography told in letters and music with

Ingrid Craigie
Imelda Drumm – Mezzo-soprano
Julian Hubbard – Baritone
David Bremner – Piano

For tickets (e18, students e5) ring  Kate  042 9380836 or email verelc@gmail.com.
You are welcome to stay for supper (e25) after the performances but please book early as numbers are limited.

For further information & directions to Anaverna see http://www.anaverna.com/concerts/

PS: Kate’s Charity Gift Shop where you can buy Indian quilts, pictures mosaics etc., which is normally opened on Thursdays, will also be open on these evenings.

“Floating somewhere between jazz and modern classical music, this young group make a strikingly original sound.” The Times

“genuinely innovative…there isn’t a band that sounds remotely like them…” **** stars” Observer Music Monthly

“A joy to listen to, full of depth and detail” Word Magazine

Music Network presents the weird but wonderful sound of Mercury-prize nominated UK Portico Quartet, showcasing tunes from their recent album Isla which has been described by MOJO as a brew of, “… Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy …a chiming cavernous sound-world that is both exotic and hypnotic”. The group will perform at Anaverna, Ravensdale, Dundalk, Co. Louth on Thursday 18th February at 8:00 PM. Tickets priced €18  (Students €5) are available at 042 9380836.

Portico Quartet are four young musicians from East London who sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before. A group that’s both ground-breaking and wildly popular, they hit the headlines in 2008 when their debut album Knee Deep In The North Sea was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Critics began to think the unthinkable: could a young group fresh from busking across Europe take on the pop might of Radiohead and The Last Shadow Puppets – and win? To make matters worse, the group already had the sort of word-of-mouth cult following normally associated with the likes of Pete Doherty. What’s going on?

The answer is simple: music that is breathtakingly original yet chock-a-block with hummable tunes and killer hooks. There’s more – great grooves, atmospheric soundscapes and the silvery tones of something once described as “ two woks glued together” – the hang, both a rhythm and melody instrument that gives Portico Quartet their trademark hypnotic tone.

Still in their early ‘20s, Jack Wyllie (saxophones and electronics), Milo Fitzpatrick (double bass), Nick Mulvey (Hang and percussion) and Duncan Bellamy (drums) live together and describe their ethos as like an indy band that plays post-jazz rather than as a traditional jazz outfit. It’s the unique mix of loops, ethereal sax, otherworldly hang, clattering drums and earthy double-bass that gives their music it’s inimitable, beautiful sound. And it was the chance purchase of the hang by Duncan Bellamy, at a music festival, that inspired the young friends to start a band, and while their largely intuitive music references jazz and African music, it’s the hang inspired trance-like repetitive patterns that propel the band into stranger pastures: invoking Philip Glass and Steve Reich as well as Radiohead or the unique Scandi-jazz sound of EST.

Portico Quartet’s unique brand of atmospheric hook-heavy post-jazz was honed busking across Europe and playing in unusual spaces; churches, galleries and chill-out zones and in just a few years Portico Quartet’s hypnotic music has taken them from busking on London’s South Bank, to a Mercury Prize nomination, to recording at Abbey Road Studio 2 with producer and famed nurturer of young bands John Leckie (Stone Roses, Radiohead, Muse etc).

If you’re not already a fan: this band is quite unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. If you are, you’ll know to book early!

Portico Quartet

Nick Mulvey, hang

Duncan Bellamy, drums

Jack Wyllie, soprano and tenor saxophone

Milo Fitzpatrick, double bass

Vere Lenox-Conyngham, Anaverna, Ravensdale (042) 93 71490 or  vere@iol.ie

Accompanying Gabriela will be by John Finucane, principal clarinet with the  National Symphony Orchestra,
and pianist Dearbhla Collins.

Gabriela is studying at the Royal Academy of Music in Dublin. In October she won a major prize and
scholarship in Italyand, this week, she is competing in the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition
in Dublin

The programme will include arias by Puccini and Mozart as well as Schubert’s miniature
dramatic cantata, The Shepherd on the Rock. (I heard Gabriela sing the latter in December. Its a gem)

You can find directions to Anaverna plus more details of the programme (when they are finalised) and a review
of a previous Finucane/Istoc/Collins concert on the website: http://www.anaverna.com/concerts/

For tickets (e18, students e5) email verelc@gmail.comor ring Kate on 042 9380836. Pay at the door but please
reserve your tickets in advance.

You are welcome to stay for supper(e25) with the musicians after the performance. Book early as numbers are limited.

Anaverna

Friday 20th November at 8 pm

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767)

Sonata in f-minor for bassoon and piano

Alexandre Tansman (1897 – 1986)

Sonatina for bassoon and piano

Oleg Miroshnikov (*1925)

Scherzo in Bb-major for bassoon and piano

Roger Boutry (*1932)

Interférences I

Mieczys?aw Weinberg (1919 – 1996)

Pieces from “Children’s Notebook” for piano and Sonata for bassoon solo op.133

Mathias Baier is principal bassoonist with Staatskapelle Berlin whose leader is Daniel Barenboim. Mathias is also a principal bassoonist with the orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival and teaches at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre.

Dublin based Russian pianist Elisaveta Blumina made her solo debut at the age of sixteen accompanied by the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra. She has won the International Brahms Piano Competition and international piano competitions in Russia, Germany, Italy and Belgium. Elisaveta has performed in many of the world’s great concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonic ,the Carnegie Hall in New York and the National Concert Hall.

The Telemann F minor sonata is one of the greatest pieces in the Baroque repertoire. The Tansman Sonatina will enable the audience to see and hear some of the technical abilities of the Bassoon. Elisaveta and Mathias are currently recording a CD with a music of M. Weinberg, an important friend of D.Schostakovitch.

For tickets (e18, students e5) email verelc@gmail.com or ring 042 9371490. Pay at the door but please reserve your tickets in advance.

Mathias and Elisaveta will be giving master classes earlier in the day. If any bassoonist or pianist would like to take part or watch, please get in touch with Vere.

POE SHOW

A Gothic Diversion based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe

Devised and directed by Michael James Ford

Music by Trevor Knight

Performed by

Stephen Swift

Michael James Ford

Eliot Moriarty

Feargal Titley

Iseult Golden

Poe Show was staged by Bewley’s Café Theatre earlier this year to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe. It played to packed houses and received rapturous reviews…

delightfully grisly production

Metro

just the right amount of wicked humour and sadistic villainy

Mail on Sunday

pure unadulterated joy

Sunday Independent

comic gold

Sunday Times

It will be performed at  Anaverna on Friday 6 November at 8 pm

For tickets (e15) email verelc@gmail.com or ring 042 9371490

You can pay at the door but please reserve your tickets in advance.A Gothic Diversion based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe

Contact Vere at verelc@gmail.com or 042 9371490