Bel Canto
Sunday 20 June, Dundee Rep, 7:30pm
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A haunting story in songs by Eilidh Mackenzie and her hostages. Take Italian Opera, throw in a lively Brit pop-style number or two and ground it all with emotional Gaelic heart-breakers and you come up with Eilidh Mackenzie’s Bel Canto. A song cycle inspired by Ann Patchett’s award-winning novel of the same name, Bel Canto is performed by a cast of celebrated musicians. |
Joining Eilidh on vocals, guest singers allude to the characters who mingle in the story and include Elizabeth McCormack, James Graham, Anna Meldrum and, no stranger to the Rep, Michael Marra who also doubles up as co-narrator for the evening
The quasi dramatic song cycle boasts a stellar musician line up with Perth-based Brian McAlpine as pianist, the lynch-pin for the song cycle. Dundee’s own Ged Grimes, ex Danny Wilson and now Deacon Blue, provides bass while the string section of Gordon Gunn on fiddle and Christine Hanson on cello complete the core band line up.
Date: Sunday 20th June
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Dundee Rep
Booking: Essential - Tickets from Dundee Rep Box Office Tel 01382 223530
Price: £12 (£10 concessions)
Bel Canto has performed twice before – in Inverness and Glasgow on both occasions to sell-out audiences.
What the papers said:
“Bel Canto, a pioneering new work by Gaelic singer/composer Eilidh
Mackenzie effortlessly embraces both a classical and an international
dimension .Flirtatious by turns yet powerfully erotic....mixing up musical
genres and paving the way for a joyful, confident collaboration.....
Earthed in the Gaidhealtachd, and interwoven with the warp and weft of
family Eilidh Mackenzie’s Bel Canto truly gives Gaelic song new wings.”
Babs NicGriogair, Inverness Courier
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