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T:De Cuellar Suite Walz, The
R:waltz
C:Michael Rooney
N:a new composition written by Michael Rooney, and featuring over 60 musicians and dancers
N:from both Ireland and Galicia, Spain.
F:http://www.celticfringefest.com/decuellar/
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L:1/8
Q:1/8=250
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%The "De Cuellar" Suite
%A suite of 20 new pieces by Harper and Composer Michael Rooney will be performed by the Ceol
%na nÓg Sligeach orchestra of over 50 musicians and dancers; they will be joined by musicians
%and dancers of the Galician Folque organization from Santiago Spain for a landmark performance
%that will marry the traditional music of these two Celtic regions. Galician Folque musicians
%will be playing their unique traditional instruments including the Gaita -a pipe instrument,
%and the Hurdy Gurdy - a stringed instrument sounded by winding of a friction wheel.
%The composition will be based on the amazing story of Capt Francesco de Cuellar who was one of
%the few survivors from the three armada ships that foundered on Streedagh Strand Co Sligo in
%1588. The music will follow the Armadas engagement with the English fleet, their defeat and
%subsequent desperate struggle to return to Spain by sailing north around the Scottish and Irish
%coasts where many of the ships were wrecked in an exceptionally stormy Autumn.
%The compositions will then depict De Cuellars adventures and struggle to survive as he makes
%his way from Streedagh through north Sligo and Leitrim.
%The injured Captain encounters hunger, enslavement, and near death before his arrival at
%Mc Clancys stronghold at Lough Melvin. During the winter of 1588 he successfully survives a
%siege of their island castle by the English, becoming a hero in local eyes. Unwilling to
%marry Mc Clancys daughter he and a group of survivors make their way to the Antrim coast where
%they hope to embark on a repaired Armada ship. Eventually they are forced to get passage to
%Scotland where they join other survivors.
%They set sail for the Spanish held Netherlands and survive a second shipwrecking and battle
%before retuning to Spain where he then penned his famous account.