Garth Knox's Saltarello Trio will bring their combination of a thousand years of classical, contemporary and folk music on a tour around Ireland the first week of March.

The Trio will play concerts in Clifden, Castlebar, Wexford, Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Castlepollard from March 1 to March 7.  Featuring a new specially commissioned Music Network composition by violist and composer Garth Knox, the tour highlights the many connections that exist between the music of today and that of hundreds of years ago.

Saltarello Trio consists of Garth Knox (medieval fiddle, viola d’amore and viola), Sylvain Lemêtre (percussion) and Agnès Vesterman (cello). Combining their collective and vast experience of classical and contemporary music with the textures and colours of folk music, the trio fuses all three styles to inform the tour’s witty arrangements. With swirling string lines and tasty percussion to open a new window on old music, the trio proves that a good tune can speak easily to all of us, no matter what the language, no matter when the time.

Ahead of this, Saltarello Trio will perform in Paris on 25^th February, in a performance promoted by Centre Culturel Irlandais with support from Culture Ireland, as well as concerts promoted by Moving on Music in Belfast, Derry and Portstewart, 27^th  – 29^th  February.

See a list of full tour dates below.

Tues 25 Feb – Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Thurs 27 Feb – First Presbyterian Church, Belfast
Fri 28 Feb – Great Hall, Ulster University Magee, Derry
Sat 29 Feb – Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
Sun 1 Mar – Station House Theatre, Clifden
Mon 2 Mar – Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
Tues 3 Mar – National Opera House, Wexford
Wed 4 Mar – Lutherhaus, 24 Adelaide Road, Dublin 2
Thurs 5 Mar –  CIT Cork School of Music
Fri 6 Mar – The Large Room, City Hall, Waterford
Sat 7 Mar – Tullynally Castle, Castlepollard