This concert is a part of the 2022 Limerick Early Music Festival.

CARANZALEM

Elena Escartín (recorder, voice)
Pilar Almalé (viola da gamba, voice)

Why do you cry, fair girl?
Why do you cry, pale flower?
I cry for you, my knight,
that you are departing and leaving me on my own…
– Traditional Sephardic Song

Caranzalem explores the traditional songs of women traveling through remote territories around the world: polyphonic ancestral music from Eastern Europe; African, Galician, traditional Sephardic, and Andalusian songs; songs from Finland, Latin America and Mongolia. In this trip around the globe, we meet and give voice to women of different cultures and religions: their emotions, their love stories, their heartbreak, their intimacies, their strengths, their weaknesses…in short, their music—beautiful, unique, and still unknown to many.

Using the medium of the voice, recorder, and viola da gamba, along with percussion, traditional instruments such as the African kalimba and the medieval vielle, Pilar and Elena present an intimate and poignant programme that will take you on a powerful emotional journey.

Limerick Early Music Festival is a member of the Irish Early Music Network.