The Frost is all Over

A traditional music multi-media performance
project conceived by Tony MacMahon

Tuning Up
By Dermot Bolger

In kitchens and pub corners and concert halls
Musicians gather. They open instrument cases,
Tune up, exchange greetings, gossip and jibes
Until, gradually, the noise of everyday life ceases.

“A Road Less Travelled”  brings together two of Ireland’s foremost solo traditional musicians with one of the countries greatest living writers to present an evening of music and poetry entwined and connected by themes and suggestions and set against a backdrop of still and moving imagery compiled by director John Comiskey

Poet and playwright Dermot Bolger was commissioned to write a body of work taking as a starting point the solo recordings of Tony Mac Mahon and David Power.  The resulting suite of 13 poems connect us to a time which is slowly slipping away into memory.  The time of Chief O Neill, Seamus Ennis and the warmth of music by the hearth.

Though steeped in historical connections “A Road Less Travelled” is a contemporary theatrical presentation which is vigorous, thoughtful and pulsing with life.

Upcoming Performance Dates

July 9,10 and 11
Clonmel Junction Festival,
Manor Mill, Suir Island
www.junctionfestival.com

August 2
Pavilion Theatre
Dunlaoghaire, Co Dublin
www.pavilionthatre.ie