Armidale Events

Featuring new compositions from composers as far flung as Canada and the Ukraine, a feature tour through Spain, as well as some music from closer to home, the programme will spark your imagination to travel far beyond the whitewashed stone walls of McCrossin’s Mill. Sense the Mill resonate with colourful timbres & woven sonorities from their plucked strings & essences of cedar, spruce, rosewood & Fenland black oak… Hang on. Sorry about that. Steve drifted off and took a detour into […]

Legendary Celtic Guitarist Tony McManus has extended and transcended the parameters of contemporary Celtic music. Ranked alongside the guitar world’s all-time greats, his fiendishly dexterous, dazzlingly original playing draws on traditions from the entire Celtic diaspora – Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, Galicia, Asturias, Cape Breton, Quebec – along with flavours, such as jazz and east European music. His has an uncanny ability to transpose the delicate, complex ornamentation of traditional bagpipe or fiddle tunes – even the phrasing of a Gaelic […]