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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Rediscovering Celtic Heritage: Musical Legacies across the Irish Sea - In conversation with the Performers
Description: Recorded February 27th, 2026.
This two-day symposium explores how musical identities were shaped and reimagined across the Irish Sea. It aims to foster dialogues between scholarship, performance, and artistic practice, providing a platform for re-examining underrepresented strands of cultural history. Main themes include:
Repertoire recovery, editorial practices, and historiographical re-evaluation
The careers, contributions, and compositions of female musicians in the Celtic nations
The cultivation of cultural identities through music
Transnational collaboration and exchange
Cross-disciplinary artistic and creative partnerships
Approaches to heritage preservation in the twenty-first century through curation and education
Moderator: James Lea, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
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