An Irish Raga (2011) 5-10'
for
Solo Guitar
Programme Note
An Irish Raga is dedicated to Ravi Shankar, the master Indian sitarist. I created this piece to coincide with my performances at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Shankar was performing at the main festival at the same time. I was privileged to witness him performing there. He is in his 90's yet still performs with great dexterity and musicianship.
An Irish Raga is not notated, it's a piece that's in my head and it is mainly improvised around some melodic figures in Irish and Indian modal scales. Therefore every performance of the piece is quite different.
An Irish Raga is not notated, it's a piece that's in my head and it is mainly improvised around some melodic figures in Irish and Indian modal scales. Therefore every performance of the piece is quite different.
