Irish Kaleidoscope will perform in Trenton on Friday, Feb. 11 as part of the Grundy County Friends of the Arts 2004-2005 program season.
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Irish Kaleidoscope will perform in Trenton on Friday, Feb. 11 as part of the Grundy County Friends of the Arts 2004-2005 program season.
The group will spend the day performing for various grades in the Trenton R-9 School District and will culminate their visit with an evening performance, open to the public. An assembly is planned at Trenton High School at 8:30 a.m. in the high school gym, followed a second performance in the high school gym at 9:30 a.m. for grades five through eight. Workshops will also be offered in the Trenton Middle School library, which will also be the site for the evening program, which starts at 7 o’clock.
Friends of the Arts season ticketholders and North Central Missouri College students with proper identification will be admitted free to the evening performance. All others will be charged $5.
Irish Kaleidoscope features Dearbhail Finnegan and Robin Slater, residents of County Meath, Ireland. The husband and wife team are both professionals in the arts, with Dearbhail an accomplished harpist while Robin is trained in ballet. The duo is joined by 15-year-old Emma Martin and Katie Martin, who present Irish customs and traditions in dance and song.
The assemblies and workshops will give audiences a chance to experience an Irish jig, learn the Gaelic alphabet and join in with an Irish folk song. Live demonstrations of Ireland’s folk instruments, including the harp, tin whistle, bodhran, concertina, Irish wooden flute and Uillean pipes are combined with a multimedia experience presented by the group dressed in traditional Irish costumes.