Middletown House Concert Series presents

Saturday, November 7th 2015, at 7:30pm

Suggested donation: $20 general, $12 students, $7 children 12 and under

For reservations and directions call 860-983-7963

or email jcormack@wesleyan.edu

CHRIS is a “brilliant English master of the acoustic guitar” (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH), a “dazzling player” (ACOUSTIC GUITAR, USA) whose work is “nothing short of brilliant” (DIRTY LINEN, USA). A prolific composer, arranger and record producer, Chris has played with luminaries of many musical worlds: folk (harpist Máire Ní Chathasaigh, Boys of the Lough, Aly Bain, Kathryn Tickell, Danny Thompson), jazz (Stéphane Grappelli, Diz Disley and Danny Thompson again) and comedy (Fred Wedlock, the Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra). His 1998 solo CD Fretwork was “a stunning and stylistically-varied album, heaving with good tunes, from one of the UK’s most staggering and influential acoustic guitarists” FOLK ROOTS (UK) “Dazzling” ACOUSTIC GUITAR (USA) “Revered” TAPLAS (Wales) “Spectacular” TIME OUT. His fourth solo CD Still Getting Away with It was released to critical acclaim in 2010.

MÁIRE is one of Ireland’s most important and influential traditional musicians, in 2001 receiving Irish music’s most prestigious award, that of TRADITIONAL MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR - GRADAM CHEOIL TG4 - “for the excellence and pioneering force of her music, the remarkable growth she has brought to the music of the harp and for the positive influence she has had on the young generation of harpers”.

“Music of fire and brilliance from the high-wire act in
traditional music”- THE IRISH TIMES (Ireland)

“Did things I have never heard a harp do before... Astonishing...
an extraordinary event”- CLASSICAL GUITAR (UK)

“So moving - technical brilliance and beauty that brings
tears to the eyes”- IRISH MUSIC MAGAZINE

Video clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGJt7lff5DE [watch the whole thing! :)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9oBc8L5VUk