Celtic Fiddle Festival: Friday in Pasadena – Guide edition for Feb 13 2015

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A fine start to your weekend: “THE CELTIC FIDDLE FESTIVAL.”

It’s rare enough that the Pasadena Folk Music Society presents a concert on a Friday. And this is much more than a good concert. It’s “THE CELTIC FIDDLE FESTIVAL,” performing February 13 at 8 pm in Beckman Institute Auditorium (aka “Little Beckman”) on the Caltech campus in Pasadena.

Okay, we said “FESTIVAL,” didn’t we? So, it’s a four-piece musical ensemble that named itself a festival. But it seems that it’s warranted.

Performing on fiddles are:
Kevin Burke (Ireland)
Christian Lemaître (Brittany, France)
André Brunet (Québec)

The three will alternately showcase and combine their music traditions and their interaction with guitarist Nicolas Quemener (of Brittany). The show’s producers tell us to expect “a delightful mix of music that ranges from joyous to mournful, with the balance tipped toward the former.”

The most recent recording by the ensemble is 2013's “The Celtic Fiddle Festival: Live in Brittany (20th Anniversary Concert),” and it captures them in fine form, with such tunes as “The Trip to Durrow,” and the beautiful “Valse du Chef de Gare (The Station Master's Waltz),” a tune about the musings of a man who oversees the boarding and well-being of his passengers – but will he ever take a train trip himself?

Here’s a clip of them playing at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall where they perform the medley, “La Belle Catherine / Le Step á Ti-Phonse / Reel á Toto” ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBR6d8dAcAA.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $5 for Caltech students and children.

You can call 626-616-4559 on Friday to verify ticket availability.

Bring enough money with you to get tickets for the Pasadena Folk Music Society’s next show, Saturday, February 28, featuring SOCKS IN THE FRYING PAN, a young Irish group of brothers Shane and Fiachra Hayes on accordion and fiddle / banjo, accompanied by Aodán Coyne on guitar and vocals. They’re doing their first US tour. You can hear them sing the song “Bonny Light Horseman” recorded at Whelan's in Dublin, at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBuLckoRfVY

There’s more about them at

http://www.socksinthefryingpan.com

You can buy tickets online for that show at

http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?pid=7929728

Check out the Pasadena Folk Music Society’s upcoming shows at

http://folkmusic.caltech.edu



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