EUGENE, OR: HULT CENTER
One Eugene Center, Eugene OR 97401
Hult Center Box Office: 541-682-5000
LIVE MUSIC: Gerry Rempel Ensemble
+ award-winning guest Eliot Grasso (uilleann pipes) fuse new music, Celtic rock, and ancient Irish traditional.
Performance Dates/Times:
Friday, Mar. 6 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, Mar. 7 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, Mar. 8 at 2:30 pm
All-Original Choreography: Donna + Hannah Bontrager, choreographer-producers
Ancient Ireland is a mesmerizing world driven by elemental powers and dragons, gatekeepers to other worlds and guardians of the treasures of the universe. Summers span decades.Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle to battle Stoorwyrm begins.Fierce movement, riotous live music, dragons, goddesses, treasure.
LIVE MUSIC: Gerry Rempel (Music Director, electric/acoustic guitars, bouzouki), Eliot Grasso (uilleann pipes, flute, whistle, fiddle), John Polese (keyboards, accordion, recorder), Oscar Watson (acoustic/electric percussion), Rick Carter (acoustic/electric bass), and Cindy Kenny and Alyse Jamieson (vocalists).
Eliot Grasso is an award-winning, internationally recognized performer and recording artist. Grasso has performed extensively at venues including Constitution Hall, the Library of Congress, the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, National Geographic, and the Kennedy Center. He has collaborated with actor Russell Crowe, Grammy-winning conductor David Sabee, and Garrison Keillor. Contemporaries claim that Grasso’s “intuitive sense of melodic and technical variation make him one of the most creative and dynamic musicians in the contemporary world of Irish traditional music,” and call him “one of the finest uilleann pipers in the history of Irish music in America.”
LIVE BROADCAST: This concert will be live broadcast to international audiences (Sunday, Mar. 8 @ 2:30 pm PST)—see link below.