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DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Santa Cruz Baroque Festival\nEvent: Holiday in Wales\nFeatured 
 Artists: Cheryl Ann Fulton (Welsh Triple Harp) and Ensemble\n \nDay and 
 Time: Saturday, February 6, at 7:30pm\nLocation: UCSC Music Center Recital 
 Hall (Heller & Meyer Drives, UC Santa Cruz campus).\n \nAdmission: 
 Admission: $22 general, $16 senior, $5 college student, $2 K-12. $40-$55 
 3-ticket Flex Passes, $65-$90 5-concert Season Subscriptions.\nTicket 
 Outlets: UCSC Ticket Ofc (www.santacruztickets.com, 831-459-2159), SC 
 Tickets Civic Center Box Office, and SC Baroque Festival 
 (www.scbaroque.org, 831-457-9693).\n \nOpening 2010 with a Grand Tour of 
 Early Music Worlds:\n \n"Strike the Harp and Let's Be Merry" on February 
 6!\n \nThe Baroque Festival's 2010 season of "Musical Voyages" makes its 
 first stop in 19th-century Wales, where Concert I, Holiday in Wales 
 recreates the music of Welsh gypsy and harpist John Roberts. Acclaimed 
 harpist Cheryl Ann Fulton and ensemble will take us to 1889 at Palé 
 Mansion, where Roberts and his 9 sons performed for non other than Queen 
 Victoria. Fulton is recognized as a leading pioneer in the study and 
 performance of historical harps. This performance takes place at the UCSC 
 Music Center Recital Hall and begins at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available 
 through the UCSC Ticket Office (www.santacruztickets.com, 831-459-2159), 
 the Civic Center Box Office, and the SC Baroque Festival 
 (www.scbaroque.org, 831-457-9693). Admission: $22 general, $16 senior, $5 
 college student, $2 K-12.\n \nThis unusual program is based on the (true) 
 legend of John Roberts (1816-1894), a Welsh gypsy who traveled the 
 countryside as the "the celebrated royal and imperial Welsh harpist" 
 available for "balls, concerts, lawn tennis and private parties." After 
 growing up in a traveling family that lived off of the river, his mother's 
 activities as fortune-teller, and community music making by the family's 
 harp-playing men, John brought up his own family with 13 music-playing 
 children. Taken together, the family played the Welsh harp, English harp, 
 violin, double bass, cello, flageolet and piccolo. Aside from various 
 dukes, earls, and ladies, the "Harpist of Wales" (Welsh: "Telynor Cymru") 
 Roberts and his sons found themselves performing for Queen Victoria in 1889 
 at Palé Mansion. Roberts not only spoke English, Welsh, and Romani, but 
 could also read and write, leaving behind autobiographical glimpses onto 
 his life, as well as his talented descendents that survived into the 20th 
 century (1). Historical harp specialist Cheryl Ann Fulton and ensemble 
 bring this legend to Santa Cruz for an evening of imaginary time travel and 
 mesmerizing music.\n \nThis opening concert will also feature the Baroque 
 Festival's 2nd annual  Instrument Exhibit (intermission), where local 
 makers and performers will display a small collection of period instruments 
 and be available for questions from concert-goers (period instruments are 
 concise replicas and in rarer cases original specimens of historic 
 instruments). A meet-the-artist reception for donors and subscribers 
 concludes the evening. Under the season theme of Musical Voyages, the 
 Festival will present a series of 5 travel-themed concerts this season, 
 starting in February and ending in May.  \n  \nParking: UCSC charges $3 
 (cash) for weekend and evening parking.\n \nMore information on all events 
 at our website:\nwww.scbaroque.org\n\n(1) Summarized from: "The Roberts 
 Tribe," Romani Wales Project, 
 http://www.valleystream.co.uk/romany-roberts.htm\n####\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/26/18636335.php
SUMMARY:Holiday in Wales (Concert I)
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz (Heller & Meyer Drives, Santa 
 Cruz)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/26/18636335.php
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