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Friday, March 2, 2012, 8:00 pm
Bass Concert Hall

2011-2012 Fine Arts Season Performance

Presented in partnership with KUT’s Across the Water

Texas Performing Arts celebrates the best of Celtic music with an extraordinary double-bill featuring Irish singing sensation Maura O’Connell and the internationally acclaimed super-group Solas.

Irish-born singer O’Connell combines traditional Celtic music with modern folk sensibilities to create an unmistakable sound. From her days as lead singer of DeDanaan to a successful solo career, O’Connell has earned a legion of fans around the world. Her ground-breaking musical penchant for blending Celtic traditions with a wide variety of other genres has led to collaborations with Van Morrison, James Taylor, Nanci Griffith, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, The Chieftains, and Roseanne Cash.

Heralded by fans and critics alike as the most popular, influential, and exciting Celtic band to ever emerge from the United States, Solas has garnered worldwide attention by mixing fire-tested tradition and contemporary sensibility with an ease and naturalness that is as astonishing as their overwhelming musicianship. As a result, they transcend musical genres into the realm of pure musical expression that only a handful of musicians attain.

“Truly interpretive singers are a rare commodity outside of country and pop. O’Connell is as good as she is rare.”
THE NEW YORKER

“Mind-blowing Irish folk music, maybe the world’s best.”
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

RESOURCES
Maura O’Connell website
Solas website

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