Cellist Jacqueline Thomas presents her recent book alongside a performance by this year’s BMF Young Artists at the Highlanes Gallery.

‘Jacksons, Monk & Rowe and the Brodsky Quartet - the formative years’
The Boyne Music Festival is delighted to collaborate for the first time this year with the Highlanes Gallery in the centre of Drogheda. This afternoon event will be equal parts book talk, performance and exhibition tour.

In her recent book, cellist Jacqueline Thomas shares the extraordinary and unique story of how four young kids growing up in the industrial North East of 1970s England form a classical string quartet. Four decades later, the Brodsky Quartet are still out there. Fans of Elvis Costello will recognise the quirky name in the title - all will be revealed in this talk as Jacqueline reads excerpts and shares anecdotes about their journey.

This event will also feature the 2022 Boyne Music Festival Young Artists performing Mozart’s String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 "Dissonance”. These young musicians have been nominated by the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin through a collaboration with the BMF and will have been coached prior to their performance by Jaqueline Thomas and violist Paul Cassidy.