Our voice — past, present and future
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Arts & Culture Centre
July 12: 8:00pm
Tickets: $25/$18 Youth (under 18) - $10 Only available from the Arts and Culture Centre
A special Lady Cove multimedia world premiere performance in partnership with Festival 500 Sharing the Voices, The Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VIII and in cooperation with The International Council for Traditional Music.
Culture arose in Newfoundland and Labrador in the same way the land was formed – earth’s crust pushed to the surface, was pounded by the Atlantic surf, and seasoned for generations in a briny mist. Now, the pace of change in Newfoundland has shifted from languid geological time to rapid digital modernity. We are becoming more urban. We still gain our prosperity from the sea, but now from oil and gas instead of a small boat fishery. Today, the anchors of our cultural sharing are waning as storytelling and song give way to new media.
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 an evening of new commissions from the Newfoundland and Labrador songbook and inspired from the traditions of this place including Canadian composers Imant Ramish, Jason Noble, Stephen Hatfield and Christos Hatzis. Feel the past meet the future and experience a culture cut from the land and fished from the sea.
This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council and the City of St. John's.