Lá na Cruite (Harp Day) 2022 takes place this Saturday, October 15, with live and online events planned all over the world, including in Galway.

This is the sixth year running that Irish harpers are inviting fellow harpers everywhere to join in celebrating a 1000-year-old musical tradition.

In Galway, there will be a series of free events in venues throughout the city.

The City Museum will exhibition of harp-making by Galway makers, Ériú Harps and Callan Harps That’s from 11am-1pm.

Meanwhile, local harpers and their students will play a variety of harps, from the early Irish harp – strung with brass – to the modern Irish harp.

Participants will include Kathleen Loughnane and Áine Ní Shioradáin on modern Irish harp and Natalia Surina and Maura Uí Chróinín on historical harps. That’s also from 11am-1pm.

At 10.30am in Galway City Library, harper Áine Parslow will fill the space with the instrument’s magic sound. Music from Ireland’s oldest harp can be heard at 2.30pm at Opus II, High Street, as Natalie Surina plays music of the Irish harpers on her beautiful copy of the 15th Century Trinity College Harp, which is strung with bronze and silver strings.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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