By Moonlight on the Green

The British pub, short for “public house”, is where people go to escape the elements, work or loneliness, surrounded by rugs and counters, beer and wood, warm light and togetherness. It is not uncommon for bagpipes and fiddles to be played in the evening, and for the crowd to be encouraged to clap, dance and sing along to age-old folk tunes – especially in Scotland and Ireland, where the Gaelic and Celtic cultures have traditionally been preserved to set themselves apart from their dominant English counterparts. Alix Boivert spent eight months exploring Dublin, discovering such a wealth of music during his musicological research that he has been performing 18th-century Irish-Scottish repertoire with his Curious Bards since 2014: “You can feel this depth, this spirituality and self-sacrifice that allows for a deeply human form of making music that comes from a very special simplicity.” For this concert, the PS. Forum turns into a pub and Einbeck into Dublin.