PeterboroughGrove Street to honor Turlough O’Carolan

Local music group Grove Street will perform a concert featuring the music of Irish composer Turlough O’Carolan March 17 at 4 p.m. in Bass Hall at the Monadnock Center for History & Culture, 19 Grove St. in Peterborough.

Chaz Beaulieu on flute, David Duhon on cello, Eric Blackmer on acoustic guitar and Lisa Murray on piano will perform the 75-minute program. Brief narration and poetry will be interspersed with the music to illuminate the life of O’Carolan, who has been dubbed by many as Ireland’s national composer.  O’Carolan, a blind itinerant Irish harpist, made his living composing and performing his tunes throughout Ireland in the late 1600s and early 1700s. He was famous in Ireland, but he was also well known in the larger European music scene. 

Grove Street members Beaulieu and Blackmer have been performing together for 24 years, with Duhon joining them four years ago and Murray last July.

The program is free to the public, although donations are appreciated.