{"id":15060,"date":"2022-11-16T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperf.wpengine.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=15060"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:04:18","slug":"history-of-donegal-music","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/event\/history-of-donegal-music\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Donegal Music &amp; Donegal Fiddle Styles: Pre-Show Lecture with Altan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About the Event<\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Join Altan musicians for a pre-show lecture on the History of Donegal Music and Donegal Fiddle Styles. Donegal is the northwest corner of Ireland where the Gaelic language is still alive. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Altan<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Altan are an <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Irish folk music<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> band formed in <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">County Donegal<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> in 1987 by lead vocalist <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mair\u00e9ad N\u00ed Mhaonaigh<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> and her husband <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Frankie Kennedy<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With a Celtic spirit culled from the rich musical traditions of their native County Donegal, Altan explores the expanse of Irish music, from lovely old tunes to lively jigs and reels.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The band\u2019s latest album, <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Gap of Dreams<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, celebrates the roots of its music in Donegal folklore. The title refers to that \u201cgap\u201d between this and the \u201cother world,\u201d which older fiddlers noted as the source for their music and inspiration, poetically describing encounters with the fairy folk or listening to tunes on the wind. In creativity, the \u201cgap of dreams\u201d is never shut.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Altan musicians for a pre-show lecture on the History of Donegal Music and Donegal Fiddle Styles.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[253],"tribe_events_cat":[31,41],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15060"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=15060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}