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MUNDI with Erin Bobruk

With classical guitar, violin, cello, bass, and an arsenal of percussion (both traditional and found), Mundi masterfully creates a sound that is rich, celebratory, dynamic, and deeply emotive.

The Celtic Explorations concert features vocalist Erin Bobruk, former member of Cluan.

Mundi is best known for its original music and also for its lively renditions of medieval tunes. Celtic music is quite new for the group. Several of its members had seen Erin Bobruk singing with the Celtic phenomenon Cluan from Austin, as well as with the Texas Early Music Project, and felt she would be a good choice for a Celtic program.

"Erin and Mundi both have these lateral connections to folk and classical music," comments music director Darrel Mayers, "and it just seemed like a natural partnership to explore." Bobruk also plays the bodhran--a Celtic drum.

Members of the Memorial High School Band will join Mundi to perform tunes including a Macedonian folksong and "Music for a Found Harmonium," a song featured in the movie Napoleon Dynamite.

This concert has been generously underwritten by Crossroads Title Company, Mid-Coast Electric, and Gary Dunnam and Sharon Steen.