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Date: Saturday - 4/4/2015
Time: 7:30pm
Location:
2411 Dole Street
Orvis Auditorium
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96826
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Patrick Ball: The Fine Beauty of the Island

Info: Apr 4, 2015 • Sat • 7:30pm • Orvis Auditorium • Tickets available: online through www.outreach.hawaii.edu/community or by phone at 956-8246, service charges apply. Advance sales end at midnight the day prior to the performance. For more information call 956-8246. •

A solo musical theater piece written and performed by Celtic Harpist & Storyteller Patrick Ball.

The Blasket Islands lie three miles off the coast of County Kerry in Ireland. For centuries they were a lonely, remote place, a place of fishermen and farmers, of poets, musicians and storytellers. In the early 1950`s, however, the last remaining inhabitants of the islands were forced to leave their homes and settle on the mainland, for their turf was gone, their land poor, and their seas plundered of fish by large trawlers from England and France. The islanders loaded all that they could carry into their curraghs and rowed away - a leave-taking known as "The Vanishing." But they also carried with them their tales and legends, one of which told of a deeply haunting tune that was heard on the winds of the islands, then passed on through generations of island musicians.

Twenty years after `The Vanishing,` Patrick Ball heard this tune in an Irish bar in San Francisco, and his life was changed forever. In The Fine Beauty of the Island, a solo musical theater piece, Patrick tells the story of his journey in search of the origin and meaning of this strange, enchanting tune which led him back not only to a Blasket Island community and culture `whose like will not be seen again,` but to a long-neglected corner of his own past.

Presented by the University of Hawaii at Manoa Outreach College in association with the University of Hawaii at Manoa Music Department. Partial funding provided by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Extending the rich resources of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa to the community and world, Outreach College presents year-round lifelong learning opportunities for both traditional and nontraditional students. Diverse options make UH courses more accessible than ever--on the Manoa campus (days, evenings, and weekends); through Outreach Programs on Hawai'i, Maui, Kaua'i, Moloka'i, and Lana'i; and via the web to wherever you are in the world.

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These programs provide English training for individuals and groups; custom-designed English programs and seminars; and a course for non-native English speakers teaching English in their home countries.

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