PRAx Presents: Maeve Gilchrist and Seamus Egan: Into the Ice
Join us for a ground-breaking collaboration between Irish music icon Seamus Egan and lauded New York-based Scots-Irish harper Maeve Gilchrist. Using their common language of traditional Celtic music, Egan and Gilchrist explore one of the most extraordinary palettes imaginable: the Antarctic.
The pair immerse us into the world of Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-17 Trans-Antarctic Expedition through a myriad of traditional instruments alongside electronic manipulation, sound design, poetry and spoken word. Step into the environment of ice, camaraderie, austere beauty and human ego — all set against the backdrop of Europe in World War I and an Irishman far from home.
This concert is presented in conjunction with the Polar STEAM program.
Buy as Part of 2026-27 Celtic Voices Package
Image Credit: Josh Goleman (Gilchrist)
PRAx gratefully acknowledges the support of Judy Mellenthin Gaulke ’65 & Michael R. Gaulke ’68 for this program.