Colcannon Performs for Library Program's Finale
The Summit County Library concludes the Adult Fall Reading Program, Read. Relax. Repeat, on Friday, November 18 at 6:30 pm with a free concenrt by Colcannon, a Celtic Irish group, in the Blue River Room of the North Branch Library in Silverthorne.
Colcannon plays Irish music with panache, warmth and wit. Timeless songs and great musicianship transport the audience to another time and place. Colcannon is equally at home on the stage at a folk music festival or performing with a symphony orchestra.
Formed in 1984 in Boulder, CO, Colcannon’s reputation has grown steadily over the years with the release of eight CDs on the Oxford Road Records label. The band’s recent CD ‘The Pooka and the Fiddler’ received a Parent’s Choice Award for its artful interweaving or music and storytelling. The Emmy®-award winning PBS special, “Colcannon in Concert,” filmed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts has aired nationwide.
Colcannon was named ensemble-in-residence at The Colorado College, the first non-classical musical group to be awarded this position. Colcannon’s appeal crosses lines of age, gender and ethnic background. “From toe-tapping dance tunes to plaintive ballads to humorous ditties, the band offers a full range of Celtic music that lifts the spirits and happily heats up an already warm night. From dirge-like minor keys to lilting and cheerful melodic lines, the music expresses the whole gamut of emotions both instrumentally and vocally,” said the Redlands Herald.
“The playing is as sprightly as it is deeply felt, with poignant vocals that are as mighty as a spring storm,” said Michael Roberts of Westword, an online news media outlet.
At the end of the concert the staff will draw the prize bag winners for our three library locations. Among the donations for the prize bags are chocolates from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, an A-Basin Day Pass for two, dinner for two to Silverheels in Frisco and many more local items.
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