Plymouth Public Library: Happy St. Patrick's Day – In June!

Press release from Plymouth Public Library:

2021-06-22

We hope you can join us on the lawn at the Main Library at 11:00 on Saturday, June 26th for an Irish-themed live music program featuring The Vox Hunters. Hailing from the great state of Rhode Island, Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi are seekers and singers of old songs, cultivators of local music, and chronic multi-instrumentalists. They are touted as strong tradition-bearers in their generation, and their genuine affinity for the music is evident in the emotion they draw from it. With a pair of oft-harmonizing voices tastefully garnished with fiddle, free-reeds, and tenor guitar, The Vox Hunters offer an all-natural connection to the living tradition of folk music.

Picking up the fiddle and tin whistle in his mid-teens, Armand learned much of his music from renowned Irish musicians and tunesmiths Jimmy Devine and Patrick Hutchinson, both of whom helped to foster an interest in the lyrical and colorful styles of older musicians such as Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford, Bobby Casey, Lucy Farr, Johnny Doherty, and Tommy Reck. In addition to being the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Fleadh Cheoil Champion for Senior Fiddle, Armand was also a finalist at the Séan Ó Riada Gold Medal Fiddle Competition held in Cork, Ireland in 2011. He has taught fiddle and tin whistle for the Reynolds-Hanafin-Cooley branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann in Boston and also teaches privately in and around Rhode Island.

This free concert will be held on the front lawn of the Main Library. Bring blankets or lawn chairs. The Vox Hunters is funded through the Irish programming fund.

This press release was produced by Plymouth Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.