MEGAFOLK #1: Brìghde Chaimbeul or listening to the bagpipes in the present.

Concert-discussion: Brìghde Chaimbeul or listening to the bagpipes in the present. Foyer (-1). Thursday 11 April 6.30pm.

MEG is delighted to welcome Brìghde Chaimbeul, a pioneer of a new approach to the Scottish bagpipes through her contemporary practice firmly rooted in her Celtic heritage. This event inaugurates the MEG's MEGAFOLK series of musical units, which looks at the transformation of musical traditions in the light of issues specific to new music. Each concert is accompanied by a discussion of the context explored, in this case the bagpipes of Brìghde Chaimbeul, with Fin Moore, its maker, and Patrik V. Dasen, ethnomusicologist and professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique of Geneva, in association with the Archipel Festival, which is also interested in the paths of sound, the gestures that transform them and the traditions that host them. This evening serve as a preview to the 31st edition of the Festival (in collaboration with the Archipel Festival).
Programme for the evening:
18h30 - MEG - Musée d'ethnographie de Genève - CONCERT
Brìghde Chaimbeul (UK) Bagpipe solo
19h30 - MEG Meal
20h00 - MEG - DISCUSSION
Fin Moore UK, luthier
Patrik V. Dasen, CH, ethnomusicologist