Mellow Tonics

THE SUM OF OUR PARTS

announcing our Christmas concert of 2023: pure imagination

We are excited to announce our Mellow Tonics Christmas Concert of 2023!

Step into the whimsical and enchanting world of Pure Imagination where the music of Mellow Tonics choir sparkles with joy and wonder. Join the celebration as captivating choral harmonies and bewitching melodies envelop you in a mist of musical magic.

Lead by musical director Norah Walsh and accompanied by our resident pianist Emmet O’Connor, the choir is delighted to welcome on the night special guest guitarist Sacha Bistany.

We invite you to donate to the Cancer Appeal at St. James's Hospital Foundation, a charity that cared for our friend and fellow choir member David Stone, who sadly passed away earlier this year. This concert is dedicated to his memory.

Date: Sunday, 10th December, 7.30pm

Location: Pepper Canister Church

 

Slovenian Expedition, September 2022

A huge thank you to all those who voted for our Inception Horizon at the Earth Futures Festival 2022 competition, organised with UNESCO and the International Union of Geological Sciences - we were delighted to be awarded third place out of 972 films from 89 countries worldwide!! Thank you so very much. We also achieved the position of Top Three Finalist in our category of Geoscience Professionals. Thanks to the TCD Provost's Visual and Performing Arts Fund, iCRAG and everyone involved in this project.

About Inception Horizon

Inspired by adventures at the Devil’s Punchbowl, Kinvara and deep inside Sliabh Elva, and guided by the insightful scientific explanations of Dr. Laurence Gill, “Inception Horizon” follows the path of atmospheric water above the lowlands of County Clare, through the soil and into the layers of rock that lie beneath. It seeps, drips and then gains traction, creating and passing through various pathways with its laminar and then increasingly turbulent flow. Over time it carves out a vast cave before finding its way back to the air via a spring.

The concept of an inception horizon features strongly in the music of the work - this is the crucial point that facilitates the initial passage of water and then stretches out like a constant ceiling above further descending erosion. Whispers of the corrosive forces at work echo in the space against an overall trajectory of descent, until the final upwards rush when you can breathe again.