Song of the Wren is a multi-media exhibition project presenting a unified body of work creating connections with nature through music, watercolor paintings and video recordings and will cultivate new exhibition venues and audiences.

This new collection of downloadable sheet music is unique in that it includes illustrations with a few of my watercolor art works.  The music in the video recordings is coupled with my Wren Series watercolor paintings for which I have received an Artist Support Grant from the Arts and Science Council, a supporting organization of the Foundation for the Carolinas.  

Kathleen Blackwell-Plank collected the traditional Breton folk tune, The Wren.  The An Dro is a circle or line dance in 4/4 meter.  This arrangement in E minor is the second movement of Blackwell-Plank's collection "Song of the Wren: A Celtic Suite." The feisty little bird, the wren is featured in folk songs from across the Celtic traditions. The suite includes songs from Brittany, Ireland and the Shetland Isles of Scotland.  In this video, the music is accompanied by Blackwell-Plank's watercolor paintings of wrens. 

This new collection of downloadable sheet music is unique in that it includes illustrations with a few of my watercolor art works.  The music in the video recordings is coupled with my Wren Series watercolor paintings for which I have received an Artist Support Grant from the Arts and Science Council, a supporting organization of the Foundation for the Carolinas.  

The final movement of Kathleen Blackwell-Plank's Song of the Wren: A Celtic Suite is Wren's Escape an Irish polka in G major.  The introduction uses the sons xylo technique which change the sonority of the harp in places.  Due to the lively melody, the left hand uses simple, long chords.