Carmina with Special Guest, Master Uilleann Piper, Diarmaid Moynihan
Celtic folk-jazz pioneers Carmina are Pippa Marland (vocals, saxes and Irish whistles), Rob King (acoustic guitar, bodhrán), and Paul Bradley (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, melodica). Carmina have recorded many albums, including Weather in the Heart and the award-winning My Crescent City, both of which were recorded in Dublin and produced by Irish traditional music legend Dónal Lunny, (co-founder of the super-group, Planxty). Their most recent album, Landmarks, celebrates their 30th anniversary as band. Carmina have toured internationally, appearing at major festivals such as Glastonbury, Edinburgh Fringe, Cork Jazz, Cork Folk, Madrid Jazz, Labadoux, Sydney St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Ireland’s World Fleadh.
Carmina’s music mixes Celtic and jazz themes and has been described as…
‘Glorious… gorgeously haunting’ – Time Out
‘Powerful and spiritually uplifting’ – The Guardian.
‘Jazz, folk and Celtic fusion that mesmerises and bewitches’ – Irish Times
Doors at 7:00pm, Starts at 7:30pm
Tickets: £16/£14
Diarmaid Moynihan
Diarmaid Moynihan is the special guest for this Carmina tour and is regarded as one of Ireland’s most creative uilleann pipers and composers. He was tutored initially by the late Tom O’Canainn at the Cork School of Music before developing his own very distinctive style and progressing to work with many cutting edge musicians, including Dónal Lunny, Alain Stivell, John Spillane and many other major artists. He has long been admired as one of the most lyrical composers working today in Irish traditional music.
What Press and People say about Carmina..
Left to right: Paul Bradley (guitars, vocals) Pippa Marland (lead vocals, saxes, whistles) Rob King (acoustic guitar, bodhrán).
“Carmina took the Guinness Festival Club by storm with a superb mix of jazz, folk and celtic crossover music – taking the audience on a bewitching journey full of melodic grace and inventiveness – a brilliant band superbly fronted by vocalist Pippa Marland and guitarist Rob King”: Jack McGouran, Artistic Director, Guinness Jazz Festival, Cork
“Marland’s beautiful voice has an Enya-like floaty ambience about it, well capable of navigating the shifting seas between jazz, new age and folk flavours. Subtly different than what Lammas used to produce, less sombre perhaps, but also a world away from the Celtic rock hero’s of yore, Horslips. Carmina are well worth catching live: Stephen Graham Jazzwise.
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