Free concert series for all the family

Three Saturdays: Three Kinds of Music is the title of the latest family-friendly weekend series from the Galway Music Residency in association with the City Museum. The three-week series features the Galway ConTempo Quartet and some of Ireland’s best performers presenting an eclectic mix of classical, contemporary and Irish traditional music. Concerts will take place on September 5, 12 and 19, from 11 am-1pm at Galway City Museum.

The first one, on September 5, will feature five-time All-Ireland champion harpist Aisling Lyons with musician, composer and music producer, Seán MacErlaine. They will perform a programme of new improvisations for clarinets and live electronics.

The following Saturday, fiddle duo and childhood friends Toner Quinn and Malachy Bourke promise a programme of fine traditional music. They will be joined by axophonist David Conway, whose range spans classical, contemporary and jazz music and is a member of the Booka Brass Band, so a lively performance is expected.

The final concert features clarinettist Pablo Manjón-Cabezas Guzman, a Masters student with Paul Roe at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.  He will perform a programme of contemporary works including Stravinsky and Jane O’Leary.  Galway’s Liz Coleman who leads the fiddle section in the acclaimed Clare Memory Orchestra will be joined by her husband uilleann piper Páidín Breathnach for a set of fun-loving jigs and reels.

In addition, ConTempo Quartet will perform one of Joseph Haydn’s string quartets, Op. 33 Nos. 1-3, each Saturday including the The Joke, an audience favourite.

All are welcome.