If you were at the Hans Zimmer show in Dublin on Tuesday night, you witnessed something special.
A JOE reader has explained how two musicians from Tallaght ended up on stage with composer Hans Zimmer for a traditional Irish music session at the 3Arena on Tuesday night.
Zimmer’s music scores some of cinema’s modern masterpieces, including The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception and Interstellar, and he was playing in Dublin on Tuesday night.
If you were at the Dublin venue you will have witnessed one of the shows of the year, and there was a special moment involving two men from Dublin bang in the middle of proceedings.
(It’s been a great week for spontaneous céilí.)
Clip via Seán Connolly
Clara Hester got in touch with us to explain how the collaboration came about.
She explains: “A group of 14 of the production crew and the band went for drinks in Temple Bar on Monday night, after landing in Dublin off the back of their shows in Paris. They were sitting in the bar where the two musicians from Tallaght were jamming away, doing what they figured was a standard and tame Monday night gig.
“They were approached by the group who said basically ‘do you wanna come play during the Hans Zimmer show tomorrow night?’ Talk about right place, right time.
“During sound rehearsals on Tuesday afternoon the two lads arrived with banjo and flute on hand and they began playing on the stage together. Soon, one of the female violinists of the band and the percussionist Holly Madge improvised and joined in on the trad session. Instantly they gelled together and it was wonderful to see this common language of music transcend so effortlessly between these strangers.Needless to say, that night, the
“Needless to say, that night, the lads performance raised the roof and was thoroughly enjoyed by both the audience and the band.
“It offered a special little memory of that particular show for them.It’s not very often you would come across an artist or even a production that would be so open to such an improvised performance or an alteration to the set list but it was embraced with a true
“It’s not very often you would come across an artist or even a production that would be so open to such an improvised performance or an alteration to the set list but it was embraced with a true Céad Míle Fáilte!”
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