| Date & Hour: , Friday 30th April, 6.30pm |
Argentine guitarist Ariel Hernandez has forged an enduring creative partnership with classically trained accordionist Dermot Dunne in recent years.
The conduit for this cultural exchange has been Ariel’s repertoire of rugged songs, both originals and traditional, learned from the old players in his native Buenos Aires.
Hernandez supplies quiet authenticity, an unadorned voice and mastery of Latin guitar idioms. He is a member of several successful ensembles, and a skilled performer and composer in his own right.
Dermot Dunne is an extravagant talent borne of classical rigour. He enthusiastically embraces music in all its hues, and elicits great drama from the accordion.
Their repertoire mixes the urbane nuevo tango that pays tribute to Astor Piazzolla, the milonga to summon the anonymous dancers in the bars of Buenos Aires, or a rough hewn chacarera or huayno that evokes the Inca communities of Argentina’s northeastern plains, drinking their mate´ when the working day is over.
Into the mix add the percussive drive of classically trained Argentine guitarist Lucas Gonzalez and a spell-binding show is promised.
"The rhythms of the southern hemisphere fuelled milongas, tangos and chacareras, each one tumbling after the other with a mix of wry nonchalance and highly disciplined precision.
Dermot Dunne's accordion brings both poise and playfulness to the mix, and Ariel Hernandez' superb guitar lines sit beneath a voice that could only have been born beneath a southern star." - The Irish Times |
