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Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Rock paintings
Anangu painted the art in the caves of Uluru to illustrate stories they were telling or the Tjukurpa
they were teaching. Several rock shelters along the Mala and Kuniya walks provide visitors with
the opportunity to observe evidence of this ancient tradition. The paintings are of considerable
Anangu, who continue to ensure their preservation and protection.
It was believed that, before humans, animals, and plants came into being, their 'souls' existed; they knew they would become physical, but not when. And when that time came, all but one of the 'souls' became plants or animals, with the last one becoming human and acting as a custodian or guardian to the natural world around them.
Traditional Australian indigenous peoples embrace all phenomena and life as part of a vast and complex system-reticulum of relationships which can be traced directly back to the ancestral Totemic Spirit Beings of The Dreaming. This structure of relations, including food taboos, had the result of maintaining the biological diversity of the indigenous environment. It may have helped prevent over hunting of particular species
The Dreaming establishes the structures of society, rules for social behavior, and the ceremonies performed to ensure continuity of life and land. The Dreaming governs the laws of community, cultural lore and how people are required to behave in their communities. The condition that is The Dreaming is met when people live according to law, and live the lore: perpetuating initiations and Dreaming transmissions or lineages, singing the songs, dancing the dances, telling the stories, painting the song-lines and Dreaming.
The Creation was believed to be the work of culture heroes who traveled across a formless land, creating sacred sites and significant places of interest in their travels. In this way song-lines were established, some of which could travel right across Australia, through as many as six to ten different language groupings. The songs and dances of a particular song-line were kept alive and frequently performed at large gatherings, organized in good seasons.
In the Aboriginal world view, every event leaves a record in the land. Everything in the natural world is a result of the actions of the archetypal beings, whose actions created the world. Aboriginal people believe in their literal existence. The meaning and significance of particular places and creatures is wedded to their origin in the Dreaming, and certain places have a particular potency, which the Aborigines call its dreaming. In this dreaming resides the sacredness of the earth.
In one version (t-, Altjira was the god of the Dreamtime; he created the Earth and then retired as the Dreamtime vanished. Alternative names for Altjira in other Australian languages include Alchera (Arrernte), Alcheringa, Mura-mura (Dieri), and Tjukurpa (Pitjantjatjara).
The dreaming and travelling trails of the Spirit Beings are the songlines (or "Yiri" in the Warlpiri language). The signs of the Spirit Beings may be of spiritual essence, physical remains such as petrosomatoglyphs of body impressions or footprints, amongst natural and elemental simulacrae. To cite an example, people from a remote outstation called Yarralin, which is part of the Victoria River region, venerate the spirit Walujapi as the Dreaming Spirit of the black-headed python. Walujapi carved a snakelike track along a cliff-face and left an impression of her buttocks when she sat establishing camp. Both these dreaming signs are still discernible. In the Wangga genre, the songs and dances express themes related to death and regeneration.They are performed publicly with the singer composing from their daily lives or while Dreaming of a nyuidj (dead spirit). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
A 1905 Beaux Arts building that's been home to Marlon Brando and novelist Dawn Powell. See www.nysonglines.com/5av.htm#11st .
Frank Hamilton is still very much the activist and speaks out about what he believes to be injustices , he did several songs about the soldiers dying in the occupation of Iraq , and a song about Jesus kick some rightwinger's asses when they get to heaven, with the mess they made of his words, some applauded (in the studio) , some listeners may haved scoffed, still he's writing and using song, songwriting and performance in a socially relevant way STILL!
Frank & Mary Hamilton came up to play on the show today, what a thrill, since the very first Folk concert i ever went to was a Weavers concert in NYC @ the age of five. (read on).
Did a bit of research on Frank Hamilton's history, what a fascinating history in music !
Frank Founded the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago which is now the oldest non-profit school with 6,500 student a WEEK. Some of his students include Roger McGuinn and Karla Bonoff.
He was in the Weavers (or the Wiki entry for the Weavers) for a spell. His name is on the copyright among other for the song "We Shall Overcome" (he's the one responsible for the melodic arrangement we are all familiar with.)
If you go 7 minutes into this NPR story by Noah Adams & his conversation with Guy Carawan where Guy attributes the arrangment to Frank.
One of the highlights of today's visit was a surprise visit from Autoharp virtuoso & folksinger Adam Miller" who was touring in the state and he & I conspired to have him sit in on the show in the last half hour to do a number or two. Adam had been working on an oral history of Frank Hamiliton and believes he is certainly a major historical figure in American Folk music who by the way is still actively performing , teaching and producing music!. Frank was surprised as was his performing, teaching & life partner Mary.
Capt. Tony's Saloon - Key West. (For white_shadow_photog)
I went down to Captain Tony's to get out of the heat
When I heard a voice call out to me, "Son, come have a seat"
I had to search my memory as I looked into those eyes
Our lives change like the weather but a legend never dies
He said, "I ate the last mango in Paris
Took the last plane out of Saigon
Took the first fast boat to China
And "Jimmy, there's still so much to be done."
"Last Mango In Paris" - Jimmy Buffett
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Frank & Mary Hamilton came up to play on the show today, what a thrill, since the very first Folk concert i ever went to was a Weavers concert in NYC @ the age of five. (read on).
Did a bit of research on Frank Hamilton's history, what a fascinating history in music !
Frank is a founder of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago which is now the oldest and largest non-profit music school in the US (possibly the world) with 6,500 student a WEEK! (a profound legacy in & of itself!)
He was in the Weavers (or the Wiki entry for the Weavers) for a spell. His name is on the copyright among others for the song "We Shall Overcome" (he's the one responsible for the melodic arrangement we are all familiar with.)
If you go 7 minutes into this NPR story by Noah Adams & his conversation with Guy Carawan where Guy attributes the arrangment to Frank.
One of the highlights of today's visit was a surprise visit from Autoharp virtuoso & folksinger Adam Miller" who was touring in the state and he & I conspired to have him sit in on the show in the last half hour to do a number or two. Adam had been working on an oral history of Frank Hamiliton and believes he is certainly a major historical figure in American Folk music who by the way is still actively performing , teaching and producing music!. Frank was surprised as was his performing, teaching & life partner Mary.
Built by Henry Siegel, co-owner of the Siegel-Cooper building on Sixth Avenue, in 1903. It was the wrong place at the wrong time, and drove Siegel into bankruptcy. See www.nysonglines.com/14st.htm#6av
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Simon Broughton (editor of Songlines), Carlos Acosta, Bassekou Kouyate and Djelimady Tounkara at the back..
Afrocubism performed at the Royal Albert Hall - London on 27 June 2011.
They received the Songlines cross-cultural collaboration award 2011.
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🎹🎼"AR Rahman" redirects here. For the surah of the Quran, see Ar-Rahman.
A. R. Rahman
A R Rahman NH7 BLR 2015 1.jpg
Rahman Performing Live at the NH7 Weekender 2015 (Bangalore)
Background information
Native nameஅ. ர. ரகுமான்
Birth nameA. S. Dileep Kumar
Also known as
A. R. Rahman
A. R. R.
Allah Rakha Rahman
Isai Puyal
Mozart of Madras
Born6 January 1967 (age 50)
Madras, India
Occupation(s)
Singer songwriter composer record producer music director arranger conductor
Years active1992–present
Websitearrahman.com
Musical career
Genres
Film scores electronic dance classical
Instruments
Vocals guitar percussion drums harpejji continuum fingerboard keyboard piano accordion goblet drum concert harp
Labels
K. M. Music Conservatory Columbia Records Sony Classical
Associated acts
Nemesis Avenue SuperHeavy will.i.am Dido Ana Beatriz Barros Roots
Signature
Allah-Rakha Rahman (About this sound pronunciation , born A. S. Dileep Kumar), is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist. A. R. Rahman's works are noted for integrating Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements. Among his awards are two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards and fifteen Filmfare Awards South. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, in 2010 by the Government of India.[1]
In 2009, Rahman was included on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.[2] The UK-based world-music magazine Songlines named him one of "Tomorrow's World Music Icons" in August 2011.[3]
With an in-house studio (Panchathan Record Inn in Chennai), Rahman's film-scoring career began during the early 1990s with the Tamil film Roja. Working in India's film industries, international cinema and theatre, Rahman is one of the world's all-time best-selling recording artists.[4][5][6] In a notable two-decade career, he has been acclaimed for redefining contemporary Indian film music and contributing to the success of several films. Rahman has become a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising money for a number of causes and charities.
Rahman's body of work for film and stage has given him the nickname of "the Mozart of Madras", and Tamil commentators and fans call him Isai Puyal (English: the Musical Storm).[7]
Early life
Career🎷🎺.
🎸"AR Rahman" redirects here. For the surah of the Quran, see Ar-Rahman.
A. R. Rahman
A R Rahman NH7 BLR 2015 1.jpg
Rahman Performing Live at the NH7 Weekender 2015 (Bangalore)
Background information
Native nameஅ. ர. ரகுமான்
Birth nameA. S. Dileep Kumar
Also known as
A. R. Rahman
A. R. R.
Allah Rakha Rahman
Isai Puyal
Mozart of Madras
Born6 January 1967 (age 50)
Madras, India
Occupation(s)
Singer songwriter composer record producer music director arranger conductor
Years active1992–present
Websitearrahman.com
Musical career
Genres
Film scores electronic dance classical
Instruments
Vocals guitar percussion drums harpejji continuum fingerboard keyboard piano accordion goblet drum concert harp
Labels
K. M. Music Conservatory Columbia Records Sony Classical
Associated acts
Nemesis Avenue SuperHeavy will.i.am Dido Ana Beatriz Barros Roots
Signature
Allah-Rakha Rahman (About this sound pronunciation , born A. S. Dileep Kumar), is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist. A. R. Rahman's works are noted for integrating Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements. Among his awards are two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards and fifteen Filmfare Awards South. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, in 2010 by the Government of India.[1]
In 2009, Rahman was included on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.[2] The UK-based world-music magazine Songlines named him one of "Tomorrow's World Music Icons" in August 2011.[3]
With an in-house studio (Panchathan Record Inn in Chennai), Rahman's film-scoring career began during the early 1990s with the Tamil film Roja. Working in India's film industries, international cinema and theatre, Rahman is one of the world's all-time best-selling recording artists.[4][5][6] In a notable two-decade career, he has been acclaimed for redefining contemporary Indian film music and contributing to the success of several films. Rahman has become a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising money for a number of causes and charities.
Rahman's body of work for film and stage has given him the nickname of "the Mozart of Madras", and Tamil commentators and fans call him Isai Puyal (English: the Musical Storm).[7]
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I was trying to tidy up a bit, and put away books, when I found a bookmark stuck in a book I knew I had finished reading - and I found this poem, which I'd clearly noted to read again.
I've been reading a lot about walking recently - Robert MacFarland's The Old Ways, Edward Thomas' The South Country, Bruce Chatwin's Songlines. Trying to capture something of the feeling of walking, those endless English footpaths that pull you on and on, and restore your soul to yourself.
"Roads go on
While we forget and are
Forgotten like a star
That shoots and is gone" - Edward Thomas
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
I made this meme for myself, because from 1967 I was living a bit to the right of this spot.
These photos were taken by the Electricity Commission in the process of building Munmorah Power Station. This is before the dredging started. You can tell this because the little island south of the bridge isn't there in the photo.
The dredging HAD been completed by 1967, and I remember the story of my Dad going for an unexpected swim using the dragnet when prawning out the front of our house in Diamond Head Drive one night. Apparently Mum got handed the kerosene lamp just in time.
At our spot, level with the Halekulani Shops (No 112), the channel started about six metres from the shore, but a little further east towards the bridge, the deep water started very close to the shore. Dad was used to the old conditions, and he no doubt was made well aware of where the deeper channel started!
A bot later, our next door neighbour Fred Menken put in a fibro pipe as a pole that was just at the edge of the channel for tying up his speedboat. As a kid when I was swimming in the lake, Mum used to say "don't go past the pole" about three hundred times. (yes, we all used to swim in the lake).
The Electricity Commission had so much dredge spoil to dispose of. It was proverbially coming out of their ears. Almost all of it got dumped in what was previously a very deep V-shaped section running back to the Toukley Golf Club site. There's a post in the group with aerial photographs showing this.
After the spoil was dumped there, that small island south of Budgie Bridge formed, and what we called the "sandbar" meant that the depth on the left hand side of this photo, about 2/3 of the way across to the line of the Toukley Bridge became substantially reduced.
It was possible to swim the channel, come up on the sandbar, and then it was about six inches deep all the way across to the golf club site so it could be walked across.
I only ever did this once. It was an interesting afternoon, and we made it all the way over and back, but we were baking in the sun, and had no water to drink. It wasn't a pleasant walk. It was also as boring as batshit, too. We never did it again, and I wouldn't want to (nor be able to due to my arthritis).
This image was four photos taken by Elcom which I've joined together. Over on the left if you zoom right in, you can just make out the faint outline of Norah Head Lighthouse. Which is exactly what the view would be from here today.
The photo's taken from the old wharf at what was originally called Diamond Head. but has later been renamed to Budgewoi Point. I've got a photo of the wharf from about 1920 in the group (a search for "Budgewoi" should find it), but it was removed when the dredging took place, and from the looks of it, it had mostly rotted away anyway. As do all wooden structures built in water eventually.
The opening in front of Slade Park, on the eastern side of the mouth to the channel is on our left. We look over to the Surf Club, and then on the right the gap for Toukley Bridge can be made out, with a tad of Gorokan in shot.
Speaking of a gap, extensive scientific research indicates it closed up about 3,500 years ago.
But it's a memory. The Awabakals who were living there - despite having no written history - were referring to it at least 3,500 years later. That's why the songlines are so important and it proves how effective they are.
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Songlines - Chant des pistes du désert australien
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23rd November 2012 at Barbican, London EC2.
Country: India (British resident) & other. Style: Hindustani instrumental / Flamenco Fusion.
Lineup: Anoushka Shankar (sitar), “El Melón” [Daniel Jimenez] (g), Sandra Camasco (v), Sanjeev Shankar (shehnai), Pirashanna Thevarajah (mridangam/ghatam/kanjira/morsing), “Taalis” [Bernhard Schimpelsberger] (cajón/udu), Kenji Ota (tanpura).
Anoushka Shankar won the Songlines 2012 Best Artist Award. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and studied the Sitar with him. Apart from still playing some traditional Hindustani instrumental concerts with her father she has largely moved off in other musical directions. The music played here came from the album “Traveller” described as a “Raga-Flamenco Journey”, and brings together musicans from both traditions. As well as India and Spain, they came from Austria and Japan. I’ve taken photos of Thevarajah playing in another fusion project (this time with Cuban music) and Carnatic music: www.flickr.com/photos/kmlivemusic/tags/pirashannathevarajah/.
In this photo: The end of performance bow to the audience.
More information: www.anoushkashankar.com/.
This is a Moleskine notebook. That's pronounced 'mohl-eh-SKEEYN-eh', not 'mooohl-skeen'.
It's old, but the name isn't. Nondescript notebooks bound in cardboard wrapped in black oilcloth have been the favourite creative tool (next to absinthe, heroin, prostitutes and bouts of insanity) of the avantgarde artists for its small and convenient size and the ability to withstand quite some battering (exhibit A: the little red moleskine on the picture has been through several rainstorms and has been left on the top of my car - fell off, but thankfully I could retrieve it before it was driven over). Oscar Wilde had several of these, as did Matisse and Hemingway and Van Gogh. See the point about drugs 'n whores 'n cetera?
In The Songlines, travel writer-cum-mystic Bruce Chatwin makes the first reference to his particular little black notebook, which was to be the prototype along which current Moleskines are designed. He writes that he went back to his favourite stationer's in Paris' Rue de l'Ancienne Comedie to buy some more of these notebooks in 1986 - the year I was born. The stationer informed him that the manufacturer has shut down after the owner died. According to Chatwin, he exclaimed that the true moleskine is no more - "le vrai Moleskine n'est plus".
Now, that's probaby bullshit, given Chatwin's propensity to make stuff up with more liberality than an intelligence report. Either way, the Moleskine was truly dead until a tiny Milan company named Modo & Modo decided to revive the trademark and put a first edition of 5,000 moleskines together. It caught on like crazy, especially once it went to Japan, where all memes in the graphic design world start (except those that start in Scandinavia, obviously), and thence seeped into the design- and retro-obsessed 'knowledge workers' community in California. The rest is history - in 2006, they got a lot of cash pumped into them by an Italian investment bank, and now you can buy Moleskines in rural Hungary. No shit.
It's got a huge cult, too, and rightly so. I own several - this one is my 'on the go' Moleskine. The drawing on the page is about a number of cases relating to proprietary remedies (yes, that's how exciting my life is).
No moles were harmed in the compilation of this article
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
ASEAN-Australia Songlines Exhibition Tour.
A guided tour for accredited media of the Songlines Exhibition artwork installation by curator Margo Neal from the National Museum of Australia during the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Sydney, Friday March 16, 2018.
Photograph by Jacky Ghossein/ASEANinAus
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Frank & Mary Hamilton came up to play on the show today, what a thrill, since the very first Folk concert i ever went to was a Weavers concert in NYC @ the age of five. (read on).
Did a bit of research on Frank Hamilton's history, what a fascinating history in music !
Frank is a founder of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago which is now the oldest non-profit school with 6,500 student a WEEK.
He was in the Weavers (or the Wiki entry for the Weavers) for a spell. His name is on the copyright among other for the song "We Shall Overcome" (he's the one responsible for the melodic arrangement we are all familiar with.)
If you go 7 minutes into this NPR story by Noah Adams & his conversation with Guy Carawan where Guy attributes the arrangment to Frank.
One of the highlights of today's visit was a surprise visit from Autoharp virtuoso & folksinger Adam Miller" who was touring in the state and he & I conspired to have him sit in on the show in the last half hour to do a number or two. Adam had been working on an oral history of Frank Hamiliton and believes he is certainly a major historical figure in American Folk music who by the way is still actively performing , teaching and producing music!. Frank was surprised as was his performing, teaching & life partner Mary.
Sunday evening at Music on the Marr, Castle Carrock, Cumbria
Catrin Finch is the most accomplished harpist in the UK. Since her first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Deutsche Grammophon in 2007, she has recorded three further albums for the label including the best selling “Blessing”, which featured her own composition “Celtic Concerto” and works by multi-award winning composer John Rutter.
Inspired to learn the harp at the age of five, her rise to prominence started almost immediately when, studying under Elinor Bennett, she achieved the highest mark in the UK for her Grade 8 exam at the age of nine.
After studying at The Purcell School, Catrin went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002 where she studied with Skaila Kanga and received the Queen’s Award for the most outstanding student of her year. She then went on to win the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, and subsequently has been nominated for Classical Brit Awards and has also received an “Echo Klassik” award in Germany.
Catrin is the former Royal Harpist to H.R.H. Prince Charles, holding the appointment from 2000-2004, in doing so reviving this ancient tradition that had last been held in 1873.
She has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Mozart Players, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Smithsonian Folklife, MDR Musiksommer Festival in Leipzig, Le Domaine Forget and Lanaudiere Festivals in Canada and the Gödöllő Harp Festival in Hungary.
Catrin has recorded for most of the major international recording companies, including Universal Records, DG, EMI and Sony Classical, in both a solo capacity and with notable artists such as Bryn Terfel, Sir James Galway and Julian Lloyd-Webber.
She has received honours from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor Glyndwr University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. She is a visiting Professor at the latter two musical institutions and is in great demand for masterclasses worldwide.
In 2013 Catrin Finch collaborated with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita on a record celebrating the harp traditions of Wales and West Africa, which has been outstandingly well received, winning the 2014 Album Of The Year in both Froots and Songlines magazines, sitting atop the World Music charts for a number of weeks. Catrin and Seckou toured the album, entitled “Clychau Dibon”, in Europe and the U.S. to rave reviews.
March 2015 saw the release of Catrin’s new self composed album entitled “Tides”, and a partnership with the charity WaterAid included a visit to Ethiopia in February, bringing the harp to a wider audience in an underprivileged part of the world whilst raising the profile of the charity’s work. Her ensemble will be touring the UK in May and October to support the album.
Catrin’s most recent project was a tour to Patagonia with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to mark the 150th anniversary of the Welsh settlement in Argentinian Patagonia. The tour covered cities including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, and amongst other works Catrin performed concertos by Ginastera and Gliere to celebrate the anniversary.
In 2016 she will tour the UK with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and be Artist In Residence at The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Lately, I have seen a side to Australia that, before now, has been hidden from me. I have been lucky. My work has taken me to some far corners of the country and i have touched a living culture that school taught me no longer existed. I hesitate before posting this picture. This is not the past. This is not a reference to the past. This is not a show or a revival. This is the law.
The University Bookstore has all their Moleskines on sale, so I had to get the last two packs of lined pocket Cahiers they had -- for only $5.60 each. Score!
Also found a cheap copy of In Patagonia that day. However, since Chatwin chats (groan) up Moleskines in The Songlines, it had to be in the shot.