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Come Dance With Me In Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats CountryPatrick Ball is one of the premier Celtic harp players in the world and a captivating spoken word artist. In playing the ancient, legendary brass-strung harp of Ireland with its crystalline, bell-like voice, and in performing marvelous tales of wit and enchantment, he not only brings new life to two cherished traditions, but blends them in concert to create “a richly theatrical and hauntingly beautiful performance".
For more information on Patrick Ball, visit his website, https://www.patrickball.com/
The Performance
“Come Dance With Me In Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country” is a musical and dramatic performance based on the life and works of Ireland’s greatest poet, William Butler Yeats. It is the story of an elderly Irish couple who had emigrated to America early in their married life. The husband had always loved Yeats’ poetry and knew much of it by heart. But, now he is suffering severe memory loss, and even those beloved poems are leaving him. The wife has arranged for them to return to Ireland and go on a “Yeats Country” tour in hopes of recapturing, if only briefly, some of those swiftly fading memories. They visit the magical landscape of Inishfree, Thoor Ballylee, Glencar, Knocknarea, and Drumcliffe. They hear again some of Yeats’ most beautiful poems, The Lake Isle Of Innisfree, When You Are Old, The Song Of Wandering Aengus, The Host Of The Air, The Wild Swans At Coole…and their story unfolds.
FREE, but registration required.
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Colton Hall, 570 Pacific St,Monterey,CA,United States
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