Time for some more tips

Howyis.

First, two notes for performers - there are two workshops coming up that might interest people. The first is a voice workshop, A Sliver of Voice on Valentine's Day which looks dead cool, in fact I will take part myself if I get my act together to pay the deposit today. The second is an Early Music weekend workshop for voices and viols in the first weekend of March. I'm attaching information and booking form. I'm putting details of both at the foot of this post.

Upcoming gigs:

Saturday 7th:
8pm Cork School of Music: The Floating Opera is a kind of all-star Cork blues band that only gets together rarely - "fronted by the fantastic Aine Whelan and Johnny Campbell, with super session men Dick Farrelly on guitar, Paul Seymour on keyboards, Jerry Fehily on drums and John O’Connor on saxes close behind. " It's only €10 and will be well worth the investment.

Monday 9th:
11.45 Crane Lane Fans of Los Langeros will probably go for one man band Scott H. Biram. If you're recently unemployed and no longer have to worry about staying out late of a Monday night it might be one to check out... http://www.myspace.com/scotthbiram

Tues 10th:
9pm The Roundy - SteT Lab have invited a group of hardcore improvisers, Dunmall, Park, Sanders and Smith, for tonight's event at the Roundy. - full details about this month's illustrious guests here: http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet

Wednesday 11th:
1.10pm Glucksman Gallery - SteT Lab's visiting improvisers Dunmall, Park, Sanders and Smith, perform in the Glucksman gallery at lunchtime (free event).
1.10pm Cork School of Music Violinist Aoife Ní Shearccóid (0ne of last year's young musicians at the West Cork Chamber Music Fest) gives an MA performance of Bach's Sonata No. 3 in Emaj, Messiaen's Theme & Variations and Schumann's Sonata in Am Op. 105, accompanied by Santa Ignace on piano. It will be really nice, just please don't be late or leave early or go if you have a cough or anything because she will be getting marked on it so we don't want to put her off!!

Thursday 12th:
9pm The Roundy - adding a little South American sunshine vibe to our february, Cork's rather brilliant newish latin group the Colin McLean Trio features the talented himself and Michael Cummins on guitar and David Whitla (who plays witht he best orchestra in ireland, the Irish Chamber Orchestra) on double bass - real quality stuff.

Friday 13th:
7pm Blackrock Castle Hot tip alert! Only 50 tickets at t0 to see a very unusual performance by Buenos Aires vocalist and performer Maia Monaco and the composer Guillermo Pesoa who are also doing the workshop I'm excited about. Full details here or check out the poster here . With such a small capacity you'd want to book ahead.

Saturday 14th
5.45pm Blackrock Castle - No this isn't a music tip but this is my damn list!! Cork Food Web is a really exciting new community venture encouraging us to work together to grow our own food in the face of recession and global economic collapse. We're having a get-together to swap seeds (hur hur, since it's Vanentine's Day) and get to know one another. Everyone's welcome, please come and bring food to share - check out http://www.corkfoodweb.ning.com

Saturday 15th
Midnight, Crane Lane - I haven't yet mentioned funk and soul band Soul Driven in this blog and in fairness they are bloody good! www.myspace.com/departmentofsoul

Monday 16th
7pm Upstairs in Sin É The KC sessions is a nice new evening for singer-songwriters - there are 20 of em lined up for this one and I'd say it'll be jammers but well worth a visit.

Wednesday 18th
8pm Cork School of Music: Eddi Reader is back in town - think the last time was when she played the City Hall in 2005 as part of Cork Folk Festival. Anyway - fabulous voice, brilliant songwriter, very original ... €25

Thursday 19th
9pm The Roundy On another singer-songwriter tip Francesca Baines (appearing with guests) is making a name for herself here in Cork. Floaty hippy vibes with a dark jazzy edge and a nice variety in her songs - check her out on www.myspace.com/francescabaines

9.30pm Charlie's I am looking forward to seeing Mick Lynch's Don for Chickens for the first time - somewhere between punk performance poetry and the messy end of a sing song from what I gather.


Ok that's the lot for now!



WORKSHOP 1:
'A Sliver of Voice' is a workshop devised by prominent Buenos Aires performer, poet and singer Maia Monaco which focuses on exploring the colours, intensities and textures of the voice and on movement and contemporary dance techniques for expressing music and emotion. Monaco shares her own devised techniques for sonic meditation, which she terms 'the vibration of the infinite voice', focussing on exercises in vocal technique and basic guidelines for improvisation that feed the imagination and amplify hearing.

Incorporating the techniques of Guillermo Pesoa to explore connections between music and theatrical performance, workshops will enhance the participants' abilities to connect music, emotion and movement, and to improvise instinctively from music.

The workshop begins with bodily warm-ups and stretches to improve awareness of posture, relaxation and responsiveness. They then move on to exercises in vocal technique and basic guidelines of improvisation.
Different vocal qualities are explored such as 'the voice in repose', 'the voice in speech', 'the animal voice', 'the agitated voice', 'the ritual voice', with emphasise on breath and pulse as the basis of the voice, employing percussion accompaniment. Pesoa will introduce basic principles of musical analysis and composition; exploring music-based performance through a series of physical and vocal tasks and exercises based on rhythmic units, music dynamics, music structure and tempo.

Here is a link to a YouTube video of Maia Monaco performing, where you can listen to some of her work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYjBDigEFQk

Workshop Details

When? : Saturday 14th of February, 2009
What time?: 10.30am to 16.30pm
Where?: Blackrock Castle Observatory
How much: €60 per participant.

How to book a place for this workshop:

If you are interested in booking a place for this workshop please do the following:

Contact me via email (marcusbale@gmail.com) asking to book a place for the workshop. I will provissionally book a place for you.
(A booking fee of €20 will be required from all participants to be paid before the 20th of January, but I will send details on how to pay this fee after provisionally booking the places).

If you need any more information, please dont hesitate to contact me:
marcusbale@gmail.com

WORKSHOP 2:

TRIORA MUSICA
www.trioramusica.com
Flat 4 32 Adelaide Cres. Hove BN3 2JH Tel: 01273 832788 mobile:
07967689714
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Early Music in Cork
In association with the Music Department, University College,
Cork
A week end of music making for experienced solo and consort singers, viol,
baroque violin, lute and recorder players
Friday March 6 – Sunday March 8th 2009
Directed Deborah Roberts, Alison Crum and Roy Marks
Course fee £100 (£60 students) or €120 (€80 students)
Triora Musica’s first course in Ireland will be set in the atmospheric city of
Cork and will focus on English music from the 16th and 17th centuries,
including such composers as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Dowland and
Thomas Tomkins. Depending upon the range of applicants we hope to
arrange sessions for viol and recorder consorts, broken (mixed) consorts, and
vocal groups for one and two per part singing.
In addition there will be open master classes on consort songs for solo singers
and viol players. Baroque violins are also welcome as an alternative to the
treble viol.
Deborah, Alison and Roy will be giving a lunchtime concert at the University
at 1 pm on Friday, and the first introductory course session will run from 5 pm
to 7 pm. We will end with an informal concert on Sunday afternoon allowing
time for participants from the UK and Europe to catch evening flights home.
All three tutors are highly experienced performers and teachers. Alison and
Roy both play with the Rose Consort of Viols and have also led hundreds of
courses around the world. Deborah’s performing career has included taking
part in over a thousand concerts with the Tallis Scholars. In addition she is
also Co Artistic Director of Brighton Early Music Festival (www.bremf.org.uk).
RIORA MUSICA
www.trioramusica.com
Flat 4 32 Adelaide Cres. Hove BN3 2JH Tel: 01273 832788 mobile:
07967689714
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Further information
Cork is a bustling city full of character and charm. It has it’s own international
airport within a short bus ride of the city centre, with flights from many parts
of the UK and Europe: see www.irishtourist.com/travel_info/cork_airport/
for a full list).
There is also a wide range of accommodation available from budget B&B’s to
top class hotels – many within walking distance of the UCC Music Department
where the course will take place. See www.corktourist.com for accommodation
lists and much further information about what to see and do in Cork. We can arrange
group meals and visists to some of Cork’s wonderful pubs for the Friday and Saturday
evenings following music making.
The Music Department is situated in Sundays Well Rd next to St Vincents Church,
and is not on the main UCC campus. It is a short walk from the city centre.
RIORA MUSICA
www.trioramusica.com
Flat 4 32 Adelaide Cres. Hove BN3 2JH Tel: 01273 832788 mobile:
07967689714
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Biographies
Alison Crum is well-known throughout the Western World as both as a player and
teacher of the viol. President of the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain,
Professor of Viol at Trinity College of Music in London, and a visiting teacher at
several colleges and universities both in Europe and the USA, Alison has been called
the 'doyenne of British viol teachers'. She has made over eighty recordings, directs
numerous summer schools and workshops, and her highly acclaimed book, 'Play the
Viol', now in its fifth reprint, is published by Oxford University Press.
Roy Marks is married to Alison Crum. Although he played piano and guitar from
childhood, he always felt himself an artist and studied at the Royal Academy in
London. Since taking up the viol, lute and theorbo he has little time for painting but
enjoys performing, coaching on various workshops and composing original music for
period instruments.
Deborah Roberts performed over 1,200 concerts worldwide with The Tallis
Scholars and gained a deep insight into performing renaissance polyphony. She is
well known internationally as a choral course director and editor of 16th and 17th
century music. She founded and directs Musica Secreta, an ensemble of female voices
and continuo that researches and performs a repertoire of richly sensuous music
(both sacred and secular), much of it by women composers. Deborah became director
of the chamber choir Brighton Consort in 1998, founded the Celestial Sirens in 2006,
and is the visiting singing teacher at University College Cork. Deborah is founding co-
Artistic Director of the Brighton Early Music Festival, now the second largest festival
of its kind in the UK.
RIORA MUSICA
www.trioramusica.com
Flat 4 32 Adelaide Cres. Hove BN3 2JH Tel: 01273 832788 mobile:
07967689714
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Early Music in Cork – Voices and Viols – Booking Form
Directed by Deborah Roberts, Alison Crum and Roy Marks
Friday March 6 – Sunday March 8th 2009
Complete the following and send with your remittance:
Sterling cheques (payable to Triora Musica) should be sent to:-
Deborah Roberts: Flat 4, 32 Adelaide Crescent, East Sussex BN3 2JH
Euro cheques (payable to Deborah Roberts) should be sent to:
Cork Voices & Viols c/o: Dr Melanie L. Marshall, University College Cork,
Department of Music, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland
The closing date for booking is 20th February 2009 (but earlier booking advised)
Name: ……………………………………………………………………….
Address: ……………………………………………………………………….
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Telephone: ………………………. Email: .……………………………
Voice: S/A/T/B ………………………… ……….
Instrument……………………………………………..
I am interested principally in the following options (tick as many as apply):
Viol consorts…… recorder consorts….. broken consorts……. Solo/one per part
singing…….. ensemble singing with two per part……. Accompanying lute songs
Experience: including sight reading ability experience, grades
etc:……………………………..
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*Course tuition fee: £100 (£60 students) or €120 (€80 students)………… …….
Some music will be available to download free from www.trioramusica.com by January
09. Please include £10 (€14) if you wish all music printed and posted. ……………
(Music should be learned in advance of the course if sight reading is not strong)