SCOTLAND'S PREMIER WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Celtic Connections 2009 本日注目のイベント。
Lúnasa with Lau
Wednesday 21st January 2009, 8.00pm
Old Fruitmarket :
http://www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/79192
Bringing together two of Celtic music’s most formidably accomplished and daringly inventive acts, tonight opens with the Scottish-based trio Lau, whose Best Group title at the 2008 Radio 2 Folk Awards set the latest seal on their justly meteoric progress.
Combining superlative traditional musicianship with all the adventurousness of a free-jazz outfit, fiddler Aidan O’Rourke, guitarist/singer Kris Drever and accordionist Martin Green will be previewing new material from their second studio album, due out in March.
Having celebrated their tenth anniversary with 2008’s retrospective compilation The Story So Far…, Lúnasa continue to lead the Irish field with their stunningly virtuosic, all-instrumental sound, which delves deep into the rhythmic heart of traditional tune forms with a verve described by fRoots as “moving, pulsating, and thrilling to the very marrow”. Layering exquisitely-played flute, whistles and uilleann pipes over powerhouse double-bass and guitar grooves, a Lúnasa performance will leave you shaken and stirred.
