Lady Cove / Camerata Xara Feature Performance

LADY COVE WOMEN'S CHOIR and the CAMERATA XARA YOUNG WOMEN'S CHOIR Feature Performance

8pm - Tuesday, July 12, 
Arts & Culture Centre

Be the first to see Newfoundland's award- winning Lady Cove Women's Choir as it premiers a ground breaking new work. This multimedia performance will bring an exciting new dimension to the choral experience as the ensemble explores relations between indigenous music of Newfoundland and Labrador and the growth of choral communities. Nova Scotia's Camerata Xara Young Women's Choir will perform 'Played', the tale of a Trickster who uses intelligence, humour and mischief to topple unjust power structures and reorder lives that have gone astray.

Tickets for the LADY COVE WOMEN'S CHOIR and the CAMERATA XARA YOUNG WOMEN'S CHOIR concert are available at the Arts and Culture Centre box office.

LADY COVE WOMEN'S CHOIR (CANADA) KELLIE WALSH, CONDUCTOR

Lady Cove Women's Choir, one of Canada's leading choral ensembles, has harnessed the possibilities of our new reality to re-imagine and share our cultural heritage. In a multi- media production that links indigenous and contemporary music, poetic, visual and dance traditions with digital technologies, Lady Cove presents new commissions from the Newfoundland and Labrador songbook and inspired from the traditions of this place including Canadian composers ImantRamish, James Rolfe, Stephen Hatfield and Christos Hatzis. Feel the past, meet the future and experience a culture cut from the land and fished from the sea.


CAMERATA XARA YOUNG WOMEN'S CHOIR HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA

Xara, from the archaic Arabic, meaning "blossoming," Camerata Xara Young Women's Choir was formed by conductor Christina Murray in 2008 as a second choir of the Halifax Camerata Singers to provide a professional environment for 24 emerging singers. Xara's focus is primarily on new music. Part of the mandate of Camerata Xara is to draw new and younger audiences to choral concerts. Xara offers audiences innovative, exciting performances that draw on a strong narrative movement and lighting in addition to challenging choral repertoire. Each programme also features at least one collaboration with another artist. Past artistic partners have included textile and fashion designer AkshayTyagi, spoken word artist Shauntay Grant, harpist Ellen Gibling, sculptor Sarah Irwin and guitarist Jeff Torbert. Xara is committed to exploring feminist models of leadership, power-sharing and story-telling in the choral setting. In this way, the artistic product and the process are both vehicles for learning. Each concert is shaped by an artistic team that includes conductor Christina Murray, scenography and movement designer, Claire Leger, assistant conductor Heather Fraser, up to two apprentices and the collaborating guest artists.

 

(This presentation is presented in collaboration with the 41st World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, July 13-19, 2011.)