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Brenda Castles is a concertina player from County Meath and the compositions she choose for Saothar are from her suite ‘The Plight of the Bumble Bee’. These tunes were written to highlight the diminishing bee population in Ireland and are the soundtrack to a film that documents the importance of the honeybee to our ecosystem, and examines their role in Irish folklore, religion and Brehon law.
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Photograph by Joey Gavin, May 2023
