Upcoming Concert - October 16, 2022 2:30PM

I am very much looking forward to joining the Ottawa Youth Harp Ensemble in a wonderful concert.  It is called "First Catch Your Peacock".  A detailed description of the concert as well as the poster can be found below.  Hope to see you there!

The concert, “First Catch Your Peacock” offers a sampling of music from the Welsh bards and readings devoted to Welsh cuisine in homeland Wales and Welsh Patagonia, Argentina. The concert title is inspired by the opening instructions of a medieval Welsh recipe for the preparation of roast peacock to be served at banquet with feathers intact.

Complementing the culinary readings, are Welsh and South American music for harp ensemble, Welsh airs for violin and harp, songs in Welsh and a violin sonata by G.F. Handel, who admired and wrote for Welsh harpists during his long sojourn in London. Interspersed with the music are readings from the “How Green Was My Valley” and its sequel “Up into the Singing Mountain” by novelist Richard Llewellyn, and from “First Catch Your Peacock – A Book of Welsh Food” by chef, Bobby Freeman.

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