Beat Carnival's Belfast Music Heritage Project

The PROJECT: Communities of Belfast musicians, involved with Beat Carnival, share their cultural stories and create a new music performance that portrays their journey through traditional music routes to contemporary expression.

SUBJECT: What is important for maintaining and celebrating cultural stories?

Our panel of project members will present their music and discuss:

• what it means to be part of a traditional music scene,
• what are the important motivations,
• should communities’ traditional music be rigidly maintained,
• how will the music progress,
• what need is there for contemporary expression and what does that mean?
• Women in community music leadership: what balance of gender representation is there?

PANEL: The project's four communities-of-interest and the session panel

1. Irish trad: Joe Campbell-McArdle & Catriona Ní Ghribín
2. Belfast marching bands: Gordon Ramsey
3. A world in Belfast: Darren Fergusson, Beyond Skin
4. Belfast meets Brazil: Matt Vernon & Stef Campbell, Beat Carnival