Smartphone Musical Tour of Galway

Spanish Arch and Galway City Museum

Smartphone Musical Tour of Galway

The Galway Early Music Festival, which runs from 9 to 11 May, includes a smartphone musical tour of the city. Starting at the City Museum, participants are asked to bring their own smartphone and the tour can be started at any time.

The tour is virtually led by Captain Moreno, a Spanish sailor who has arrived in Galway to guide participants through his favourite places. Visiting various sites in the city, those taking part in the tour can listen to music that might have been played there 400 years ago.

The festival also includes the first public viewing of an interpretation of a late Bronze Age musician’s outfit, based on a hoard discovered in West Clare. The interpretation, by Ancient Music Ireland, is based on a horn, chain, sword and axes that were found in a bog in 1930. The presentation, at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, on 9 May at 4pm, will discuss the links between spoken and musicial performance, and the decorative aspects of the musician’s outfit.

Concerts taking place as part of the festival include, among others, the St Nicholas Schola Cantorum, at St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Thursday, 9 May at 8pm; recorder player Laoise O’Brien’s Sonnets for the Cradle project, based on fairytale traditions, at An Taibhdhearc on Friday, 10 May, at 8pm; and a performance by the choir Resurgam with the ensemble Atalante in a programme built around early Baroque music from seventeenth-century Rome at St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Saturday, 11 May, at 8pm.

For full programme details see here.

galwayearlymusic.com

Published on 9 May 2013

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