LAKEPORT — The Triskela harp trio is returning to Lake County for the third year in a row, performing Celtic and Latin harp music at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Soper-Reese Community Theatre, located at 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport. General admission seats cost $20; reserved seats cost $22.
Triskela”s handmade harps and fresh arrangements are complimented by vocals, flute, penny whistle and percussion. Listeners will enjoy Irish airs and ballads and the rhythms of South America.
The group is named after the triskele, an ancient Celtic symbol consisting of three interlocking spirals.
Since 1997, Diana Stork, Shawna Spiteri and Portia Diwa have played their eclectic repertoire throughout northern California, performing at Grace Cathedral, the Festival of Harps at the Dorothy Spreckels Performing Arts Center, the San Francisco Irish Music Festival and even at San Francisco City Hall. In 2008, Triskela”s recording of Diana Stork”s “Wedding Bells,” from its debut CD, “Voice of Tara,” was selected for the feature documentary “Reclaiming the Blade,” narrated by “Lord of the Rings” star John Rhys-Davies.
The Oct. 23 show will include a special “History of the Harp” presentation at 1:15 p.m. Listeners who have wondered about where the harp originated, or had questions about the construction of a harp, will have a chance to have their questions answered.
Opening for Triskela is the a cappella group, Il Mio Divas, singers of Renaissance-era madrigals. The group is made up of women from the Lake County under the direction of Claudia Listman.
Il Mio Divas is an outgrowth of the Noble Singers, the group that sings at the annual Renaissance Christmas Pageant and Feast in Middletown every December.
These women, who come from a variety of musical and dramatic backgrounds, just didn”t want to quit singing when the Pageant was over so they formed Il Mio Divas.
The group now performs annually at the Lake Renaissance Festival on Memorial Day Weekend in Lower Lake, as part of The Noble Singers in the Renaissance Christmas Pageant in December and at various local theatrical productions, parties and wineries. Most recently the group performed in the New Vintage Productions presentation of “Romeo and Juliet” at the Soper-Reese.
Tickets are on sale now, available online at www.SoperReeseTheatre.com; at the theater box office or by calling 263-0577. The box office is open from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and for two hours before showtime on the day of the show.
