{"id":1460,"date":"2014-05-24T05:27:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T05:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/min-on.matthewbyrt.com\/ko\/blog\/2014\/05\/24\/japanese-audiences-enjoy-irelands-cultural-celebration\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T20:16:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T20:16:22","slug":"japanese-audiences-enjoy-irelands-cultural-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/1460\/japanese-audiences-enjoy-irelands-cultural-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Audiences Enjoy Ireland\u2019s Cultural Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As virtuoso Irish fiddler Oisi\u0301n Mac Diarmada remarked, \u201cMusic, dance and language are probably the three strongest elements of cultural inheritance reflecting \u2018Irishness.\u2019\u201d He continued, \u201cIrish traditional music is the music of the people and a cultural celebration of Irish communities. Songs represent the everyday experiences and social interactions of people. A lot of music originated from social dancing, so that music is very joyful and exciting. But we also have sadder music\u2014such as songs to lament loss or to remember some sorrowful historical event.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a part of the special concert series celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding, the Min-On Concert Association, with the full support of the Embassy of Ireland in Japan, invited one of Ireland\u2019s leading traditional bands, Te\u0301ada, for a 19-city nationwide tour during March and April. The band was accompanied by Irish singing legend Se\u0301amus Begley and his daughter Me\u0301abh, as well as four talented Irish dancers.<\/p>\n

Te\u0301ada, led by fiddler Oisi\u0301n Mac Diarmada, features unique Irish instruments such as the button accordion, played by Paul Finn; the uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipe) and flute, played by Sean Gavin; the Irish bouzouki (a pear-shaped stringed instrument) and guitar, played by Sea\u0301n McElwain; and the bodhra\u0301n (Irish drum), played by Tristan Rosenstock.<\/p>\n

The band performed a variety of traditional Irish tunes gathered from the four corners of Ireland to packed audiences at each venue. Se\u0301amus and Me\u0301abh Begley sang old indigenous songs in the Irish language, and the skillful dancers displayed great artistry onstage with their cheerful traditional Irish dance steps. Some of the best-loved Irish songs in their repertoire, such as \u201cDanny Boy\u201d and \u201cThe Last Rose of Summer,\u201d are familiar to Japanese audiences\u2014especially older members, who learned these songs at elementary school. Much of the audience was spontaneously humming along with the nostalgic melodies, and Japan truly enjoyed these spring evenings during Ireland\u2019s cultural celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As virtuoso Irish fiddler Oisi\u0301n Mac Diarmada remarked, \u201cMusic, dance and language are probably the three strongest elements of cultural inheritance reflecting \u2018Irishness.\u2019\u201d He continued, \u201cIrish traditional music is the music of the people and a cultural celebration of Irish communities. Songs represent the everyday experiences and social interactions of people. A lot of music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,270],"tags":[82],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Korean - Min-On Website","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5437,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/5437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}