AISLING- Very Fine Irish Music
Award winning Irish soprano Emma Kate Tobia has joined with Melbourne musicians
Cyril Moran, Ian Tritt and Janice McBride to perform as the group Aisling. Hear
them perform traditional Irish songs in Gaelic while learning about the social
happenings of the 18th and 19th century. The penal days, the many uprisings, the
Flight of the Earls and even the 1916 Easter Rising come alive through their
narration.
A truly educational journey woven by the many Aisling or”dream vision”
songs where Ireland is portrayed as a womanly figure or fierce warrior or even as
a mermaid or an animal as poets struggled to portray the social happenings of the
day. The Aisling was a powerfully emotive channel for the expression of social
discontent and political turmoil in Ireland.