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However, we plan to add to the wonderful online presence of early music taking place across Europe. Visit www.earlymusicday.eu for more, and sign up for our mailing list to keep up to date about our rescheduled H.I.P.S.T.E.R. launch and other future early music courses and events.

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New Limerick-based Early Music organisation H.I.P.S.T.E.R. celebrates the European Day of Early Music in Ireland with a full day of concerts, exhibitions and educational events

H.I.P.S.T.E.R.—Limerick’s Historically Informed Performance Series, Teaching, Education and Research—brings music, instruments and dance from centuries ago to Limerick audiences with their official launch on the 21st of March. The organisation celebrates the European Day of Early Music with a compact one-day festival, which gathers together performers on harpsichord, viola da gamba, vielle, recorder, and voice in three concerts of chamber music from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. An exhibit of early instruments and a Renaissance dance workshop are two other crowd-pleasers on this unique day, which features music from over a thousand years and the fresh, imaginative, and historically inspired fashion in which Early Music artists perform. H.I.P.S.T.E.R.’s founders and co-directors, historical keyboardist Yonit Kosovske and singer Vlad Smishkewych, are joined by dance instructor Felicity Maxwell, recorder player Theresa Burton, Michelle O’Connor on medieval vielle and fiddle, and Sarah Groser, on viola da gamba and vielle. 

All events are being held at the People’s Museum of Limerick in the heart of the Treaty City’s Georgian Quarter. The event is made possible by generous support from the Limerick City and County Council. 

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10am–5:00pm Instrument Exhibit
11am Medieval Concert: Unexpected Innovations
1pm Recorder Concert: Chrome Attic
4pm Viola da gamba Concert: Fire in the Belly—the Devil & the Angel 
5:30pm Historical Dance Workshop: Introduction to Renaissance & English country dance
with Felicity Maxwell 
8pm Reception: EDEM celebration and H.I.P.S.T.E.R. launch

For full information, visit www.hipsterireland.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nowandthenmedia
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HIPSTERIreland
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hipsternowandthenmedia/

Tickets available at eventbrite.ie: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hipster-launch-european-day-of-early-music-2020-tickets-95422345805

And on the day at the door

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Elsewhere on the island:

Galway’s European Day of Early Music events

European Day of Early Music marks the launch of the 25th Galway Early Music Festival programme.  GEM has organised two events on Saturday, March 21, 2020:

• 4pm Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane: Talk and Concert - The King’s Manuscript. An introduction to medieval (instrumental) music – a multi-media and live music event with Dr Jacopo Bisagni (bagpipes and double pipes). €10 

• 8pm St Nicholas Collegiate Church: Concert and launch of the Galway Early Music Festival programme, featuring Cantoral: Irish World academy early music female schola, Siobhán Armstrong (early Irish harp), Jacopo Bisagni, Simon O’Dwyer of Ancient Music Ireland. This festive night of music and entertainment is a fundraising event for the festival. €10 

Tickets for both events: www.galwayearlymusic.com and at the door. 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gwy_earlymusic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/galwayearlymusic/ 

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East Cork Early Music Festival has been producing early music in Cork since 2003, with a festival each October, taking place in 2020 from the 8th-11th October. Year-round they are responsible for a number of concerts, workshops and events in early music taking place in Cork. For Early Music Day, they are producing a concert in their ‘Weekends at 4:15’ series, with the Cork Baroque Players in the historic Goldie Chapel of Nano Nagle Place. 

Details: https://nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/east-cork-early-music-festival/

See eastcorkearlymusic.ie for more info about early music in Cork.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EastCorkEarlyMusic/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EastCorkEarly
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eastcorkearlymusic/

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For more information about national and international events for the European Day of Early Music, visit www.earlymusicday.eu and www. rema-eemn.net.