Played in a medieval church atop the old Citadel in Calvi during an Elsafty, Armstrong & Browne concert in mid September, 2013 at the fantastic "Rencontre De Chantes Polyphoniques De Calvi"
Listen out for the gorgeous sound of Siobhán Armstrong's Early Irish harp after the applause...
Thanks for making it all happen Davóg!!

Ronan Browne Port Na bPucaí down low on the B pipes in Corsica 2013

composed and performed by Christopher Otto
engineered, edited, mixed and mastered by Christopher Botta

Violin Octet

Peter Blanchette's setting of the Emily Dickinson poem, "Hope" is the thing with feathers. The vocal line is also played on the archguitar.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all - 

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - 

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all - 

I’ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - 
et - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me. 

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

Hope is the thing with feathers DEMO

Seana Choirce

Cois Laoi Na Sreabh

Phase V

Padrino

Swivvy

solo bowed metal rail [from discarded wardrobe moving box] on coffee table

10/13/19 at 4:50pm
home (flatbush, brooklyn)

solo drum & AM/SW transmissions (via emergency radio & transducer)

10/20/19 at 3:49pm
home (flatbush, brooklyn)

4444

The old brass Denis Harrington pipes playing in C.  Drones reeded but not regs yet.
Chanter is my C from Peter Hunter (early 80s) – full of attitude and spark!
New hollow stock from Bill Haneman with extremely thin walls allowing the bees to escape beautifully.
YAY...!!!

Ronan Browne C Harri. The Curragh Races & Bean an Tí ar Lár & Boil the Breakfast Early

'Death Of A Friend'

Track 6 from the album 'Fix'

Dedicated to Peter Stokes

Written and performed by Oumi Kapila

Recorded in Los Angeles, California

Mastered by Maor Appelbaum

Death Of A Friend

Peter Blanchette is the inventor of the 11-string archguitar. His repertoire of unusual and internationally acclaimed arrangements and compositions spans from medieval to contemporary to ethnic, played in solo recital or with selected other instrumentalists to form the Virtual Consort. A recipient of the MCC Artist Grant in Music Composition, Blanchette is a veteran performer of such high profile venues as NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion," and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His CDs receive heavy airplay on "Sunday Baroque," "The Thistle and Shamrock," and regionally on WAMC, WNYC, and WFCR. In 2009, he was a WFCR Foundation nominee as one of the region's most valuable artists. As a composer, he has contributed to such television programs as HBO's "Sex and the City," and PBS' "Inside the Tuscan Hills." Among other film work, Blanchette worked extensively with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom and director John Turturro on Turturro’s film Illuminata.
In the late 1990's, the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) commissioned Peter Blanchette to compose scores to the Buster Keaton silent comedies “The General” and “The Navigator” which resulted in sell-out performances in RealArtWays in Hartford CT, and at Memorial Hall in Shelburne Falls, MA. In 2009 Blanchette received grants from New England Foundation for the Arts "Meet the Composer," and the Northampton Arts Council to complete the trio of Keaton's masterpieces by composing a multi-instrumental score to the 1928 comedy, Steamboat Bill, Jr. which he premiered, along with master classes in film scoring, to resounding success at the Dingle Film Festival in Ireland in September 2009, and Amherst Cinema Arts Center in October 2009.  He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra, and holds a Master’s Degree in Music Composition from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree from Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont.


Hope is the thing with feathers DEMO

Peter Blanchette, archguitar

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