Name: Catrin Finch & Aoife Ní Bhriain
Start: 2024-07-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Acapela Studio

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Acapela Studios

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Catrin Finch

Aoife Ní Bhriain

Catrin Finch & Aoife Ní Bhriain

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Pentyrch

United Kingdom

Acapela Studio

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Concert

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Mae Lleisiau Eraill yn dychwelyd i Aberteifi - 80 o setiau byw gan rai o leisiau disglair y byd cerddoriaeth yng Nghymru, Iwerddon a thu hwnt. Mae'n ymwneud â'r cysylltiadau Celtaidd rhwng Aberteifi a Dingle - dwy dref fechan ar gyrion y gorllewin sy'n rhannu tirwedd, iaith ac ysbryd. Dyma uchafbwyntiau ecscliwsif o'r ŵyl, gyda pherfformiadau gan Gwenno, Sage Todz, Band Pres Llareggub, Aoife ni Bhriaina a Catrin Finch yn ogystal â Stella Donnelly. Huw Stephens sy'n cyflwyno.

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The Other Voices festival returns to Cardigan - 80 live sets by some of the brightest voices in the music world in Wales, Ireland and beyond. It's about the Celtic connections between Cardigan and Dingle - two small towns on the western edge that share landscape, language and spirit. Exclusive highlights from the festival, with performances by Gwenno, Sage Todz, Llareggub Brass Band, Aoife ni Bhriaina and Catrin Finch as well as Stella Donnelly. Huw Stephens presents.

The duo met in the depths of lockdown on the digital edition of Other Voices Aberteifi, the Welsh manifestation of the iconic Irish TV series and Other Voices Festival, which began in Dingle some twenty years ago. Catrin Finch, surely the most accomplished British harpist of her generation, was an obvious musical match for the polychromatic virtuosity of Ireland’s violinist Aoife Ní Bhriain, and the resulting album, Double You is the superb product of their “…. innate synergy…(and is) an ingenious blend of myriad influences,” – Miranda Heggie, The Arts Desk.

Both are incredible virtuosos of their respective instruments, who started young and trained hard with great dedication to achieve the highest world-class standards of their art. Both went through rigorous classical training and grounded their careers in the classical world. Given her family heritage, it was inevitable that Aoife would also become a master of the Irish tradition; and given her fearless and inquisitive nature, it was equally inevitable that Catrin would seek artistic satisfaction beyond the confines of the classical world. “Audiences just want to come away from a performance having been moved,” says Catrin. That becomes the key creative force, transcending the boundaries of genre.

Running through their stories – as individual creatives, remarkable women, and now as an inspirational duo – are universal themes of identity, self-belief and the courage to be who you really are, to find yourself, particularly when others expect you to conform. Theirs is a story of being brave enough to follow your own path. From fighting against cancer and embracing sexuality, to being courageous enough to express their full creative potential, both Catrin and Aoife have been forging their own paths of challenge and discovery.

Each track on the album begins with the letter ‘W’; spoken as ‘Double You’ the tracks allude to the many striking parallels that bind Catrin and Aoife together, making one the double of the other and affording a deep musical affinity between the two. The ‘W’ also traces the pattern of the famous waggle dance that bees use to tell their fellow workers where nectar sources can be found, their lower bodies indicating the direction of the nectar relative to the sun. It’s a suitable metaphor for a search for new creative possibilities.

Wonder is based on a prelude by Bach, blending variations with some original motifs. Catrin: “It’s our own improvisation on that original prelude.” The chords at the end are from a Mendelssohn violin concerto dear to Aoife, who studied for a while at the Hochschule that Mendelssohn founded in Leipzig, the city where Bach lived.

Double You is the incredible debut album from Welsh Harpist Catrin Finch and Ireland’s fiddle virtuoso Aoife Ní Bhriain, released on 27th October on the bendigedig label.

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Catrin Finch & Aoife Ní Bhriain by , Déa 04 Iúil 2024, Ó (2024/2024), Acapela Studio, Pentyrch, United Kingdom

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