The Blue Ridge Irish Music School presents a concert of harp and guitar. Máire Ní Chathsaigh, steeped in the traditions of her native Co. Cork, is a recipient of Irish traditional music’s most prestigious award, Musician of the Year (Gradam Ceoil TG4 - Ceoltóir na Bliana) and a multiple All-Ireland winner; her 1985 solo album, 'The New Strung Harp’, was a milestone in Irish harp music.
Chris Newman is a “dazzling” guitarist, who has toured and recorded with such luminaries of the folk and jazz worlds as Boys of the Lough and Stéphane Grappelli, and a composer and record producer.
Their performances are a breathtaking blend of traditional Irish music, hot jazz, bluegrass and baroque, spiced with striking new compositions.
The celebrated partnership of a brilliant English master of the acoustic guitar with “the doyenne of Irish harpers” has presented its unique musical vision in twenty-four countries on five continents to venues ranging from the tiniest of village halls to palaces in Kyoto and Istanbul, London’s Barbican, Cologne's Philharmonie, and Town Halls from Sydney to Seattle.