Harps Alive Gala finale concert - A tribute to the Belfast Harp Orchestra

The Festival culminates with a celebration of our living tradition showing the exciting trajectory of harping at the present time. 

Kathleen Loughnane takes up the story with some music from the harpers Connellan -William and Thomas, whose music Bunting also featured. 

She is joined by her son Cormac Cannon on whistle and pipes and we hear the incomparable partnership of harp and pipes -the soul and sound of Ireland. 

Harpers Anne-Marie O’ Farrell and Cormac De Barra are two of the most dynamic players at the current time and play a scintillating combination of harpers’ music arranged in a contemporary way. 

The evening ends with a tribute to the Belfast Harp Orchestra with Director Janet Harbison, who established the Grammy award-winning harp orchestra in 1992, bringing people together from both political traditions so that it quickly became a model of cross-community co-operation. 

She is joined by some of its former members, now professional harpers, together with soloists; singer Mairéad Healy and whistle player and piper, Patrick Davy. 

Performers include:

• Kathleen Loughnane
• Cormac Cannon
• Anne-Marie O'Farrell
• Cormac De Barra
• Aileen Kennedy
• Teresa O'Donnell
• Mary Louise O'Donnell
• Kathryn Weir
• Susannah Weir
• Julie Howse
• Mairead Healy
• Patrick Davey 
• Janet Harbison

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