Rob Doyle & Frankie Gaffney
Up By The Roots
Rob Doyle & Frankie Gaffney
With Paul McVeigh
Crescent Arts Centre Monday 13 June – 7-8pm Tickets : £ 6 /£ 4
Dublin Seven is the violent story of Shane , a small-time dealer . Having just left school and keen to assert his independence , he loses himself in the Celtic Tiger nightlife .
Soon his life is drugs , music and gangsters . But as the Celtic Tiger ends , so does Shane ’ s luck .
Frankie Gaffney came of age in Dublin , immersed in the city ’ s underworld . In his mid-twenties he left this behind attending Trinity College to study English Literature .
A man roams a Dublin industrial park and meets a strange vagrant . A woman takes part in an unusual sleep experiment . A Nietzsche - obsessed man clings to his girlfriend ’ s red shoes .
Layering narratives and splicing fiction with non-fiction , This is the Ritual tells of the ecstatic , the desperate and the uncertain .
Rob Doyle ’ s acclaimed debut , Here Are the Young Men , was chosen as a book of the year by the Irish Times , Independent , Sunday Times and Sunday Business Post , and shortlisted in the Irish Book Awards .
Up By The Roots
With Sinéad Morrissey , Piers Hellawell & The Fidelio Trio
Crescent Arts Centre Monday 13 June – 8.15pm Tickets : £ 10 /£ 8
Beethoven - Piano Trio , Op 70 ‘ Ghost ’ Piers Hellawell / Sinéad Morrissey – Up By The Roots Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht
A highlight of this year ’ s Festival . Featuring the Fidelio Trio , poet Sinéad Morrissey and composer Piers Hellawell , they present their collaborative work .
Up by the Roots approaches the relation of music and text in a new way ; the interaction of trio and poetic texts respects , though later dissolves , the bounds between these separate territories . Three pieces for piano trio are interleaved with three poems . However , such is the volatility , the alternations become more subversive . As music seeps into poem and poetry becomes sound , we move closer to an operatic scena .
The Fidelio Trio have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Ensemble Award , following a long collaborative relationship with Piers Hellawell . It seemed appropriate that , the Fidelio Trio based in London should collaborate with an English composer working in Belfast ; the catalyst being Belfast poet , Sinéad Morrissey .
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