Media Release 28 May 2015

The National Concert Hall's Summer Programme for 2015 is out now

The National Concert Hall’s Summer Programme for July and August 2015 is OUT NOW with a range of artists scheduled to perform from five time Grammy award winner Mary Chapin Carpenter to Nicola Bennedetti, Jason Moran to Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Bryn Terfel to Marc Almond. The popular lunchtime concerts by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra continue this year with chamber music lunchtime concerts on offer by Ensemble Avalon.
For the complete list of concerts see this digital copy of the National Concert Hall July August Programme for 2015: http://content.yudu.com/A3os9e/NCH-Summer-2015

SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS

•    Three iconic American females: five time Grammy award winner Mary Chapin Carpenter (11 July) followed by a special tribute concert to Carole King’s Landmark 1971 Album Tapestry (17 July) in Art of the Song. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell play songs from their latest album ‘The Traveling Kind’  (19 July).
•    ESB LIVE 2015 continues with South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo (2 July).
•    Following that, a colourful fiesta of Mexican music and dance (4 July) with Ballet Folclórico Universidad de Guadalajara
•    The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra completes its Beethoven Piano Concerto series with pianists Michael McHale (3rd July) and Hugh Tinney (10 July).
•    American jazz musician Jason Moran presents a tribute to jazz legend Fats Waller in Jason Moran’s Fats Waller Dance Party as part of Perspectives (12 August).
•    The ever-popular RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra summer lunchtime concerts continue this July (every Tuesday) offering audiences an hour of popular classics.
•    The lunchtime offer continues in August with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra as well as a range of four chamber music concerts by Ensemble Avalon in the John Field Room throughout August.
•    The RTÉ Concert Orchestra also present Bryn Terfel (31 July), the Magical West End (7 August), Marti Pellow (14 August), The John Williams Collection (21/22 August)
•    A brand new series entitled This Must be the Place features significant contemporary artists including Marc Almond (1st August); Sun Kil Moon (6 August) and Keaton Henson (15 August).
•    This Summer also heralds the beginning of the National Concert Hall’s International Concert series 2015/2016 with the first visit to Ireland of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, direct from the BBC Proms in London (28 August).
•    Looking ahead September sees a rare performance by Saint Etienne of Foxbase Alpha as part of ESB LIVE (8 September) as well as Nicola Benedetti (Italia and the Four Season Tour) on 30 September.
•    We are also delighted to be presenting two nights of a brand new project entitled ‘Blood and the Moon; A Provocation on Yeats’ (13/14 September), curated by Thomas Bartlett aka Doveman with Paul Muldoon. Devised with the intention of sharing new musical interpretations of Yeats’ poetry, the concert features new songs and music by a range of artists including Anna Calvi, Sam Amidon, Robert Forster, Nico Muhly, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, to name a few.

For the full schedule of concerts please see link above, or go to View All Events. [Calendars will also be sent by post should you so wish].

ENDS
For further information on the above please contact: Sinead Doyle, Marketing & PR Manager, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2. Tel: 01 417 0057/0871775334