Wed 5/21 @ noon
Trobar was founded not quite ten years ago by three women who met while at Case Western Reserve University’s historic musical performance program. Their names comes from a word in Occitan, the language spoken in southern France in the middle ages, meaning roughly to creative, compose or invent. Since then, they’ve performed around the Midwest as well as Boston, Washington D.C., New York and Chicago.
Now two of the founders, Allison Monroe (voice, vielle, rebec, psaltry) and Elena Mullins (voice, harp, percussion), along with regular guest artist Allen Otte percussion) will perform their Found in Translation, as part of Trinity Cathedral’s Brownbag concert series. In it, the musicians explore the music of medieval troubadours, performing their music in both Occitan and English. “By setting these languages side by side, we capture both the beauty and craft of the original text and their immediacy and vitality through translation, simulating the two halves of their first audiences’ experience.,” they say.
The concert is free and open to all.