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Cantairí Chonamara Choir presents: A Lifetime of Notes
September 19 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
€20
Cantairí Chonamara choir presents ‘A Lifetime of Notes’, a tribute to the life and work of Irish musician, singer and composer Tomás Ó’Canainn (1930-2013). The concert will celebrate the extensive range of Ó’Canainn’s creative work, including a selection of his compositions for different combinations of choral voices, pieces for strings, original traditional music and poetry, accompanied by orchestral and traditional instruments and soloists.
Ó Canainn was an Irish Uilleann piper, accordion player, singer,composer, researcher, writer and lecturer. He was honoured as Chief Bard at the 2004 All-Ireland Fleadh Ceoil. Born outside Derry, he later moved to Cork, where he studied music with Seán Ó Riada, and lectured there after Ó’Riada’s death. He taught uilleann pipes at the Cork School of Music and wrote books on traditional music and poetry and a biography of Seán Ó Riada. He was perhaps best known as a founder member of the popular group Na Filí in the 1960s and 1970s.