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BRIMS & WTJU FM present harpist Máire Ní Cathasaigh and guitarist Chris Newman in the Tavern at Thistlerock Mead Company. Máire Ní Cathasaigh, steeped in the traditions of her native Co. Cork, is a recipient of Irish traditional music’s most prestigious award, Musician of the Year (Gradam Ceoil TG4 - Ceoltóir na Bliana) and a multiple All-Ireland winner; her 1985 solo album, 'The New Strung Harp’, was "a milestone in Irish harp music” (THE IRISH EXAMINER). “She is the great innovator of modern Irish harping, a player of outstanding technique and imagination” THE ROUGH GUIDE TO IRISH MUSIC “Máire is an absolute legend.” THE IRISH ECHO (USA)
Chris Newman is a “dazzling” guitarist, who has toured and recorded with such luminaries of the folk and jazz worlds as Boys of the Lough and Stéphane Grappelli, and a composer and record producer.
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Thistlerock Mead Company, 3077 Gables Run Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22902-7312, United States
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