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JOURNEYS
20th–23rd MARCH 2024
Featuring sacred & secular music about travel, pilgrimage, and transformation, spanning 1000 years of music, diverse cultures, and geographical areas from Africa to the Middle East to Europe.
Sung Compline with Peregryne
20 March 5:30pm
Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick
Vocal ensemble Peregryne (Stuart Kinsella, dir.) bring the sung office of Compline to Saint Mary's Cathedral for a sublime start to the Limerick Early Music Festival. Featuring chant, Renaissance polyphony, and crowned with a large scale anthem from the Eton choirbook (c.1500).
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick
Vocal ensemble Peregryne (Stuart Kinsella, dir.) bring the sung office of Compline to Saint Mary's Cathedral for a sublime start to the Limerick Early Music Festival. Featuring chant, Renaissance polyphony, and crowned with a large scale anthem from the Eton choirbook (c.1500).
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Journeying with Bach
22 March 8pm
Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick
Featuring choral and instrumental works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Heinrich Schütz. This concert brings together Ancór, Saint Mary's Cathedral Choir, Sagittarius Hiberniensis, the Limerick School of Music Senior Choir, and the LEMF orchestra under co-directors Cecilia Madden and Peter Barley.
TICKETS €25/€20
€5 Under 16s
Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick
Featuring choral and instrumental works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Heinrich Schütz. This concert brings together Ancór, Saint Mary's Cathedral Choir, Sagittarius Hiberniensis, the Limerick School of Music Senior Choir, and the LEMF orchestra under co-directors Cecilia Madden and Peter Barley.
TICKETS €25/€20
€5 Under 16s
Music at the Milk Market: Renaissance Music in Costume
Saturday 16 & 23 March 10am–12pm, Milk Market Limerick
Music played by LEMF performers on medieval, Renaissance and traditional instruments featuring joyous dances from centuries ago. The perfect early music Saturday morning!
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Music played by LEMF performers on medieval, Renaissance and traditional instruments featuring joyous dances from centuries ago. The perfect early music Saturday morning!
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
PEREGRINATIO: Medieval Songs of Travel, Pilgrimage, and Spiritual Journeys
Saturday 23 March 2pm
Saint Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Street, Limerick
This concert brings together songs of travel and pilgrimage, devotion, and rejoicing at arrival, bookending a medieval drama telling the story of the Three Marys and their journey to the Holy Sepulchre—the 'Visitatio Sepulchri'—reconstructed from sources from Dublin and Santiago de Compostela.
TICKETS €20/€15
€5 Under 16s
Saint Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Street, Limerick
This concert brings together songs of travel and pilgrimage, devotion, and rejoicing at arrival, bookending a medieval drama telling the story of the Three Marys and their journey to the Holy Sepulchre—the 'Visitatio Sepulchri'—reconstructed from sources from Dublin and Santiago de Compostela.
TICKETS €20/€15
€5 Under 16s
The Fragrant Garden: from al-Andalus to North Africa
Saturday 23 March 8pm
Saint Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Street, Limerick
The music and poetry from al-Andalus continues to be played until today in cities throughout North Africa, hearkening to the golden age of arabo-Andalusian culture in the Iberian Peninsula. This concert will feature Moroccan Nubas, Gharnati songs and Sephardi Andalusian liturgical poems and songs in the vernacular, showing how language, sound and aesthetics converged centuries ago and continue to give their fruits, as in a fragrant garden. Performers include renowned musicians: Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Zaki Chaabi and Mustafa El Meknassi.
TICKETS €25/€20
€5 Under 16s
Saint Joseph’s Church, O’Connell Street, Limerick
The music and poetry from al-Andalus continues to be played until today in cities throughout North Africa, hearkening to the golden age of arabo-Andalusian culture in the Iberian Peninsula. This concert will feature Moroccan Nubas, Gharnati songs and Sephardi Andalusian liturgical poems and songs in the vernacular, showing how language, sound and aesthetics converged centuries ago and continue to give their fruits, as in a fragrant garden. Performers include renowned musicians: Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Zaki Chaabi and Mustafa El Meknassi.
TICKETS €25/€20
€5 Under 16s
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