{"id":76382,"date":"2014-03-07T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=76382"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:11:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:11:56","slug":"danu-olin-bates-irish-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/07\/danu-olin-bates-irish-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Unforgettable Irish sextet Dan\u00fa performs March 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_76056\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Olin1314_Danu-by-Colm_Henry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76056\" class=\"size-large wp-image-76056\" alt=\"The popular traditional Irish band Dan\u00fa against an Irish landscape, taken by Colm Henry.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Olin1314_Danu-by-Colm_Henry-600x450.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Olin1314_Danu-by-Colm_Henry-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Olin1314_Danu-by-Colm_Henry-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Olin1314_Danu-by-Colm_Henry-144x107.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Olin1314_Danu-by-Colm_Henry-134x100.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The popular traditional Irish band Dan\u00fa. (Colm Henry)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dan\u00fa, an Irish sextet hailed for &#8220;astonishing versatility and exuberance&#8221; (Geoff Wallis, <em>Musical Traditions<\/em>), performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets cost $30 for the general public and $22 for seniors (65-plus) and students, and are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/batestickets.universitytickets.com\/user_pages\/event_listings.asp\">batestickets.com<\/a>. A limited number of free tickets for students and seniors (65-plus) become available after March 10 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/o\/olin-arts-center-4643338427\">bit.ly\/oacbates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact 207-786-6163 or <a href=\"mailto:olinarts@bates.edu\">olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Ireland&#8217;s historic County Waterford, Dan\u00fa is one of the leading traditional Irish ensembles. Their standing-room-only concerts are renowned for high energy and a glorious mix of ancient and new repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>Dan\u00fa takes its audiences on a musical journey to Ireland, offering a moving and memorable concert experience. Their recordings are available on the Shanachie label and live performances are often broadcast on NPR, the CBC and the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1995, Dan\u00fa&#8217;s virtuoso players of flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki and voice (Irish and English) have performed around the globe and recorded seven critically acclaimed albums and a live DVD, <em>One Night Stand<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of numerous awards from the BBC and Irish Music Magazine, Dan\u00fa has toured throughout Europe, the Middle East and North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan\u00fa, an Irish sextet hailed for &#8220;astonishing versatility and exuberance,&#8221; performs on March 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":76056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,133,9946],"tags":[10346,4474,4478,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-76382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-creativity","category-exclude-from-loops","tag-danu","tag-ireland","tag-irish-music","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76420,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76382\/revisions\/76420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}