A
gig
on Sunday 18th May. The event starts at 19:00.
Eimear Reidy - cello
Matt Davis - trumpet
Eimear Reidy is a cellist, composer and improviser. Her approach to the music making is informed by baroque rhetorical styles and storytelling, mixed with a rigorous exploration of extended techniques and an ever evolving approach to the instrument.
She has been commissioned to write and perform for theatre, visual art and dance and regularly performs new work as a soloist and with a variety of ensembles at contemporary art centres and festivals including The Dock, The Sirius Arts Centre, The Guest House, Body and Soul, Feile Na Greine, Idir Dha Thra, Spike Cello Festival and Tradition Now. Eimear frequently collaborates with musician Natalia Beylis with whom she has recorded two albums,; Whose Woods These Are and She Came Through The Window to Stand By The Door both of which were released on Nyahh records as well as her solo cello album, Things That Happened At Sea. Eimear is currently on residency at The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick On Sjhannon.
Matt Davis has been active in improvised music since the mid 90’s, playing throughout the UK and Europe in many different collaborations in small and large group ensembles including Zeitkratzer and La Sospechosa dance company, appearing on Another Timbre, Confront and Erstwhile record labels.
He is currently based in Bristol where he regularly collaborates with, amongst others, Phil Minton, Luigi Marino and Matthew Grigg. Regular groups include Nodosus (with Angharad Davies, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dominic Lash and John Butcher) and a trio with Rachel Musson and Mark Sanders.
The concert will be three sets of two solos and a duo.
Doors are at 6.30, music starts at 7pm.