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Dinogad’s Smock – Ensemble Laude

Tickets $35.00 | $20.00 students | Children 12 & under Free
November 28
St Mary Incarnation, MetchosinView on map
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A concert celebrating the Warrior Women of the Ancient Celtic World

Join Ensemble Laude, Victoria’s premiere treble voice choir, for a thrilling concert of singing, drumming, lilting, and dance celebrating powerful Celtic Queens, Princesses, and Warriors who led armies, changed national boundaries, left a wholly new world.

Our concert celebrates four Celtic warrior women of the ancient past:

Scathach of Skye (Scottish Gaelic warrior queen, c. 200 CE)
Gwenllian Ferch Gruffudd (Welsh warrior princess, c. 1100 CE)
Medv Cruachna, Queen of Connaught (Irish queen, c. 1st centry, CE)
Jeanne de Clisson – (Pirate queen of Brittany, c. 1300 CE)
Plus! Music celebrating women’s voices from Canada’s Celtic nations – Newfoundland, Cape Breton, and Acadia

Hear haunting Irish solos, medieval Gaelic psalm singing, women’s working music from the Outer Hebrides, Breton Kan ha diskan dance songs from Brittany, plus rousing choral music powerful enough to rally entire populations in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Brittany – and Canada!

Destination Greater Victoria is honoured to be based on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples of the Songhees Nation and Xwsepsum Nation, whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.