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IRISH EXAMINER | January 18th, 2017 Lúnasa To Celebrate 20 Poetry is language. That is the moment and uses language angeli-
Years With Gig At inescapable. It may contain ideas, but cally to portray the real and inner
Carnegie Hall it is not ideas; it may tell a story, but beauty of the world we live in.
it is not stories. It may express the whole
Celebrating its range of human emotion, but unless its If you have a poem you’d like to see
20th anniver- language is vital, fresh and surprising, published in The Irish Examiner then
sary in 2017, those emotions will be blurred and inef- email it direct to ronniem-
Irish super group fectual. cginn@eircom.net.
Lúnasa gives a fes-
tive performance at Poetry, then, is a vital, fresh and If possible keep your poem to 20
Carnegie Hall on surprising language. Patricia Coulter lines. You may choose any subject you
Friday, March 3 at of Toronto, Canada, gave us this like, in any form you like as long as it’s
8:30 p.m. in Zankel week’s poem. original. We look forward to hearing
Hall. The concert from you.
features singer Patricia captures the atmosphere of
Karan Casey, one Ronnie McGinn
of the most innova-
tive and provoca- Dawn
tive voices in Irish folk music today.
Dawning in Lissnaclarig ...
Lúnasa flute player Kevin Crawford said, “The significance of Lúnasa per- but before, it seemed the moon was shining through the
forming at Carnegie Hall is about being Irish—our culture, our history and,
more importantly, about acknowledging the master musicians who’ve gone ceiling window,
before us. These visionaries created a platform for groups such as Lúnasa to go making a steady path across. Silence so full it wakens
out into the world and share this incredible music of ours. Yet nothing com-
pares with the sense of validity and pride associated at the prospect of playing the inner listening.
Carnegie Hall.” Then some wild call. Of geese?
And the colour of velvet rose across the walls deepening.
Over the past two decades, Lúnasa has released nine albums—most recently I thought the kitchen light was on.
in collaboration with Ireland’s RTÉ Concert Orchestra at Dublin’s National But it was the dawning light washing through there too.
Concert Hall—with a tenth album due in 2017 to mark the momentous anniver- No camera can catch it as it rises and shows up the dew
sary. Their album The Kinnitty Sessions won Irish Music Magazine’s “Best sitting like single prisms atop each grass blade.
Traditional Album” award in 2005 and was nominated for “Folk Album Of The
Year” at the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Awards. New, all of it; most ordinary of happenings comes again
today.
In addition to a robust touring schedule with concerts in the United States,
Canada, Japan, and Europe, Lúnasa continues to collaborate with top folk artists Only here, its utter beauty is framed by a horizon-wide
including American singer-songwriters Natalie Merchant and Mary Chapin canvas,
Carpenter and bluegrass superstar Tim O’Brien.
with nothing taller than a telephone pole to block its
Frequent Lúnasa collaborator Karan Casey brings expert vocal artistry to this impact,
Carnegie Hall performance, honed from years of performing with some of the
most notable folk groups including Solas, The Dubliners, and Béla Fleck and the nor any sound of commerce or technology to distract its
Flecktones. She has released six solo albums, a duo album with legendary gui- silent symphony,
tar player John Doyle, and has appeared on over 50 records earning her the rep-
utation as one of the most imitated voices in Irish traditional music. C apart from the animals' that appear to be celebrating what
we so rarely wake to:

our newness and the astounding creation each of us is,
and each of our faces the canvas

that the Creator touches anew this day.

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