Talun Midwest Tour
Hosted by Lake Harriet Spiritual Community (LHSC)
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NewMusicArts Artist LAURA MacKENZIEAnnounces Midwest Tour With TALÚN
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The music of TALÚN (pronounced Taw'loon, an Irish word for earth or ground) is wrapped around the Fire Eye Suite, five movements celebrating the earth as represented by the Sovereign Goddesses of Ireland. It was composed as the centerpiece of a renewal of a 4500 year old fire ritual honoring ÉRIÚ, the eponomous goddess of the island of Eire, or Ireland. This musical pilgrimage is presented as a modern day call to rediscover the divine feminine and the spirit of the land that sustains us.
"(Garry) Jones' music is grand and lovely; alternately achingly beautiful and breathtakingly anthemic..." -Will Ackerman, Grammy Award winning guitarist and founder of Windham Hill record label.
GARRY JONES is an Australian-born composer/musician who has just moved to the United States after living for ten years on the wild and rugged west coast of Ireland. During that time, he developed a fascination for Irish mythology and has incorporated this into his music making, seeing it as both an immensely rich source of musical inspiration and a vehicle through which to tell the story of the Divine Feminine, sacred landscape and our interdependence with the natural and supernatural world. It's a story of magic, hope and beauty that he feels particularly needs to be told in these days of global warming and environmental crises. Garry explores the Irish Otherworld and such things as faery queens, high kings, stone circles, the Sacred Fire and the epic battles between the mythological races the Fir Bolg and the Tuatha De Danaan through story and music. Garry has composed for musicals, rock operas, huge festival fire events and millennium celebrations. He designs and builds large-scale musical sculptures, musical instruments for people with disabilities, leads tour groups in Ireland, and plays guitar and writes music with his wife Kate Hennessy in their Brattleboro, Vermont, home.
For this Midwest tour, Jones is collaborating with the renowned traditional musician, LAURA MacKENZIE. Laura has learned from many tradition bearers on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been recognized as a Master Folk Artist by the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has been lauded as a "Celtic music wizard" by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and a "High priestess of Celtic music" by Minnesota Public Radio. From production work (and appearance) on A Prairie Home Companion to academic work in ethnomusicology, from rockin' out in Boiled in Lead to national touring with Lorie Line and her Pop Chamber Orchestra, Laura has enjoyed vast and varied experience in the worlds of music while developing as a performing artist. Her powerful array of wind instruments includes wooden flutes, whistles, concertina, Scottish smallpipes, Border pipes, French Cornemuse, Medieval English Greatpipes, Leicester smallpipes, gemshorn and voice.
"Laura MacKenzie is a performing artist of astonishing versatility, singing and playing with skill and emotion a splendid repertoire." -The American Association of University Women.
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