Galway Early Music Festival 2003

Galway Early Music Festival 2003

galway.net , 07 May 2003

The theme for the 2003 Galway Early Music Festival is "Contact" - a musical journey from the Middle East to the New World which celebrates the musical contacts between Europe and the East in the middle ages and later Europe and the New World in the renaissance and early modern period. Concerts include eye-opening performances of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music, baroque music from Mexico and South America, and European music, all reflecting the musical enrichment of cultural contact during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque periods.

This year the Spanish Baroque opera La Púrpura de la rosa (The Blood of the Rose) will receive its Irish premiere during the festival on the 17th of May, in Saint Nicholas Collegiate Church at 8pm. "We are absolutely thrilled that such a prestigious production will be performing in our festival", said Maura Ó Cróinín, Chairperson of the Galway Early Music Festival. "It is a pleasure to have one of the world's leading performers of early music, Andrew Lawrence-King directing and conducting this opera", says Maura.

Along with the musical feast is a fiesta of dancing, costume, colour and historical re-enactment on the streets of Galway City all day on Saturday. Keep an eye out for Aztecs, Incas, Crusaders and Saracens! Children's workshops and adult workshops offer a chance for individuals to participate in the music and dance or discover medieval Galway, with two guided tours of the city during the festival. With such a varied programme packed into four days, there is something for everyone to enjoy at the Galway Early Music Festival.

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