Moonrakers Celtic Music
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Beautiful Celtic music and song featuring harp, fiddle, stringed instruments, whistles, female/male vocals. Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English roots music from professional artists. Moonrakers (www.moonrakers.net) are four consummate musicians playing harp, fiddle, whistles, guitar, mandola and female/male vocals, Moonrakers specialise in Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English traditional and contemporary tunes and songs, presenting “exquisite music” (BBC). They are rapidly creating a buzz in the world of acoustic music, with three albums receiving glowing reviews in the music press (“Just OOZES quality”- Living Tradition; “highly infectious”- Maverick) and appearances at many festivals, arts centres and churches in the Southern counties. This "fine organic collection of apt musicianship" (Earbuzz) displays "a true respect for the British folk tradition" (eMusic). For more information, sounds and videos, go to www.moonrakers.net
Moonrakers material is largely from the Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English traditions, reflecting a love of traditional tunes and contemporary songs ’in the idiom’. Anna Lockett’s Celtic harp is very much a centre piece of the group, complemented with Liz van Santen’s fiddle, and Jon’s bouzouki, guitar, whistles and bodhran. The warm vocals of Jo Daley, the youngest member of the band, combine with Jon’s rich baritone. Moonrakers have also produced their own multi-media show “A History of the Celtic Harp” with slides, narration and live music which can be either a stand-alone prese
7.30pm £10 (£8 conc) Tickets from 07803 501777 jameskillen@hotmail.com or on the door
St Edburg’s Church, Church St, Bicester Oxfordshire OX26 6AR
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