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January 18, 2015 at 2 pm Sunday Matinee Patrick Ball ~ Celtic Harp and Storytelling
Willits Community Theatre
Willits, CA
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January 18, 2015 at 2 pm Sunday Matinee Patrick Ball ~ Celtic Harp and Storytelling
January 18, 2015 at 2 pm Sunday Matinee

Patrick Ball ~ Celtic Harp and Storytelling

Patrick Ball was born and raised in California and gave little thought to such things as where his ancestors came from. He went to school and supposed, when he thought about it at all, that he would one day be a lawyer, like his father. But he studied music from time to time and over the years developed a nodding acquaintance with the piano and the guitar. At university he continued his flirtatious relationship with music by playing the tin whistle, principally to annoy his roommate. But at this time he found that he was irresistibly drawn to words, to the music of words, to writers who made words sing, to writers from Ireland. Then, when he began to study history to fulfill his academic requirements, he was not surprised to find that it was the lyrical, turbulent history of Ireland that engaged him. So much so, in fact, that when his father died all his thoughts of law school died with him. He enrolled in graduate school and soon made his way to Ireland. There he fell in love with the eloquence and fire of the Irish oral tradition. There he fell in love with the Celtic harp. And there a few pieces of his life fell into place. For he came to know that marvelous unity of Irish words, music and history that would become his passion and, eventually, his livelihood.

Patrick returned to California, was awarded a Master's Degree in History by Dominican College, and soon discovered that jobs in the field of Irish scholarship were not to be had for love nor money. So after laboring in various unrewarding lines of work he set off hitchhiking around the country and finally fetched up at Penland School of Crafts in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where he lived for two years and worked as a groundsman. There he encountered a branch of that living oral tradition that had captivated him in Ireland. And there for him, among the Appalachian storytellers, his love of the spoken word was rekindled. He returned to Ireland and listened, then made his way back to California, determined to put his scholarship, his love of words and his neglected musicianship to some use, to carve out for himself an occupation from the things that he loved. He sought out a maker of the rare wire-strung Celtic harp and taught himself to play. He then gathered the stories he had heard and the history he had learned and blended them with the music that had so often been their companion.

He now tours extensively throughout the United States and Canada, is considered one of the premier Celtic harpers and spoken word artists in the world today, and has recorded nine instrumental and three spoken word albums which have sold well over one-half million copies collectively and earned national awards in both the music and spoken word categories. Along with Celtic Harp and Story, his beguiling blend of music and spoken word concerts, Patrick has written and currently performs two acclaimed solo musical theater pieces: O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, which brings to the stage the legendary life, the turbulent times and the glorious music of Ireland's most celebrated and beloved musician, Turlough O'Carolan, and The Fine Beauty of the Island, a musical journey to Ireland's legendary Blasket Islands in search of a deeply haunting tune and the vanished islanders who played it. Patrick also presents an ensemble performance, The Flame of Love, a spoken word and Early Music retelling of the greatest of medieval legends, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult.

He has been awarded grants for his work by the Zellerbach Family Fund and the California Arts Council and is the recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Association.

Patrick Ball is "a rare artist." For in playing the ancient, legendary brass-strung harp of Ireland with its crystalline, bell-like voice and performing marvelous tales of wit and enchantment, he not only brings new life to two cherished traditions, but blends them in concert to create "a richly theatrical and hauntingly beautiful performance."

Ubicación

Willits Community Theatre (Ver)
37 West Van Lane
Willits, CA 95490
United States

Categorías

Artes > Performance
Música > Todas las edades
Música > Celta

Apropiado para niños: Sí
Se aceptan perros: No
No fumar: Sí
Accesible a silla de ruedas: Sí

Contacto

Organizador: Willits Community Theatre
En BPT desde: Feb 26, 2013
 
Willits Community Theatre
www.willitstheatre.org

Asistentes

Michael B.
Willits, CA United States
Ene 18, 2015 9:44 AM
Lila R.
Willits, CA United States
Ene 18, 2015 9:44 AM
Anna Z.
Redwood Valley, CA United States
Ene 17, 2015 7:22 PM
Susan K.
ukiah, CA United States
Ene 17, 2015 5:30 PM
Nombre Retenido
Ene 17, 2015 5:27 PM

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