New Harp Concert series, sponsored by The Institute of Musical Traditions :

The Maeve Gilchrist Trio
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, MD
Tickets $18 advance, $22 door.  Students $14 advance, $18 door.

Edinburgh born harpist and singer Maeve Gilchrist has been credited as an innovator on her native Celtic Harp at the young age of 25. With her distinct vocal sound and exquisite harp playing, Gilchrist has bought audiences to their feet all over Europe and North America.  Along with her regular collaborator, bassist Aidan O’ Donnell (Scottish Jazz Awards recipient), Maeve is joined by fiddler Duncan Wickel (who has performed with John Doyle, Lily Henley and the Duhks) to form a unique and colorful string sound drawing deeply on Maeve’s traditional music background while also including elements of improvisation.

 Lily Neill
 Saturday, April 21, 2012
Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, MD
Tickets $18 advance, $22 door.  Students $14 advance, $18 door.

Lily Neill began her career at a very young age in Washington, D.C..  At age fifteen she performed alongside The Chieftains and the late Derek Bell at the Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, returning the next year for another show with the super-group.  Irish Music Magazine has praised her work as "part of the new Harp revolution extolling aspects of harp music never previously heard". Lily's foundation in Irish music, coupled with her eclectic tastes and classical piano training, has enabled her to expand the voice of the harp through her arrangements of music and in her original compositions.

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