Irish Concert with Mick Moloney

HANOI: Mon 14 Jan 2013, 7.30 pm
Youth Theatre, Hanoi
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HCMC: Thu 17 Jan 2013, 7.30 pm
HCMC Conservatory of Music, HCMC

From The Embassy of Ireland:

The Embassy of Ireland is delighted to welcome Mick Moloney, one of Ireland’s most renowned traditional musicians and musicologists, back to Vietnam for an evening of Irish music and song at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi on Monday 14 January 2013 and at the Conservatory of Music in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday 17 January 2013.

Mick will be joined by fellow Irish musicians Michelle Mulcahy, Louise Mulcahy and Dylan Foley, Irish dancer Niall O’Leary and Irish poet/playwright Vincent Woods. The concert will bring together the extraordinary talents of some of Ireland’s finest instrumentalists and one of the greatest dancers of our time. The group will showcase not only the best of Irish song but also instrumental music featuring the uilleann pipes, harp, fiddle, guitar and octave mandolin, accompanied by the dazzling dancing of Niall O’Leary, the World Champion of  Irish step dance. The ensemble plays a hugely varied repertoire ranging from traditional Irish tunes several hundred years old to beautiful music written by contemporary composers. Mick Moloney will perform songs in the Gaelic and English language and songs from the Irish American experience forged by hundreds of years of colonization and emigration. The group will also perform with the Vietnamese young artists from the Rhapsody Philhamony in Hanoi and artists from the Conservatory of Music in Ho Chi Minh City in a unique collaboration of Irish and Vietnamese musical styles. This will be a performance not to be missed.

Artists in the concert
–         Mick Moloney –  Songs, tenor banjo, guitar, octave mandolin
–         Michelle Mulcahy – Harp, fiddle
–         Louise Mulcahy – Flute, uilleann pipes
–         Dylan Foley – Fiddle
–         Niall O’Leary – Irish dancer
–         Vincent Woods – Poet/playwright

Tickets

Tickets for the event can be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis by contacting the Embassy of Ireland at [email protected].  Tickets can be collected at the Embassy of Ireland, 2^nd floor, Sentinel Place, 41A Ly Thai To, Hanoi from 8 January to 11 January 2013, from 9:00 to 15:30.

Venue in Hanoi: Youth Theatre, 11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi

Time: 19h30 Monday 14 January 2013

For tickets in Ho Chi Minh City, please contact the Performing and Foreign Affairs Centre, Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du, District 1, HCMC. Tickets can be collected at the Conservatory from 10 January to 15 January 2013, from 9:00 to 15:30.