Gerry is playing The Cobalt Café this Saturday coming, the 16th, with three other musicians including a great kora player from Senegal, Solo Cissokho. This show is being produced by Improvised Music.
Gerry says: “We will all play solo and then together. I’ve no idea what we’ll do, always a nice prospect in music.
Also on the bill, free strawberries and cream!”
Oisin Mac Diarmada pictured at Willie Clancy Summer School recently, with Marcas Ó Murchú
Join Téada in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo tomorrow night (Monday) to celebrate 10 years of the group. They’ll be joined by lots of great musicians/singers/dancers including Michael McGoldrick, Séamus Begley, Marcas Ó Murchú, Gerard Butler and many more, to also open the 2011 South Sligo Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance.
If you can’t make it, the tribute concert from the 25th South Sligo Summer School will be streamed on www.livetrad.com on Friday next July 15th from 10pm Irish/UK time.
In an Irish Times article about the Willie Clancy week, Martin, having pointed out that Junior Crehan didn’t have an iPod, is quoted as saying: “Instead of spending time imagining music, we just tend to go for the headphones all of the time and listening to someone else’s version of the tune. If we’re not in the world of imagining these tunes, we are never going to get to the point where we are playing or singing our version of the tunes.”
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (fiddle, hardanger fiddle)
Seán Mac Erlaine (bass clarinet, alto saxophone, electronics)
Nic Gareiss (percussive dance)
Petter Berndalen (drums, percussion)
Music Network writes: “Formed in 2010, This is How we Fly is a Contemporary Folk band consisting of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh on fiddle & hardanger fiddle, Seán Mac Erlaine on bass clarinet, saxophones & live electronics, Nic Gareiss on percussive dance, and Petter Berndalen on drums and percussion. Individually, each member has carved out a reputation for not just mastering their chosen fields, but rising above, redefining and renewing the musical world they come from. Initially brought together through a commission from the Dublin Fringe Festival (under the moniker Four on the Fringe of Folk) in September 2010 to play a one-off show, they received an unexpectedly rapturous response. Their music sees Swedish folk music rhythms meet the texture of traditional Irish fiddle, percussive dance from America & improvised jazz and electronics.”
Tour:
Music Network writes: “Brace yourself for a clash of the titans as a trio of trad’s finest join forces for this unmissable tour. With three distinct regional styles going head-to-head, every tune promises to be something of an adventure. Representing the Dingle Peninsula is genial giant Breanndán Ó Beaghlaoich, whose fiery button accordion playing and heartfelt singing echo the stormy beauty of the West Kerry coastline. With three highly-acclaimed solo albums to his name, Ó Beaghlaoich is also held in high esteem for his work with the groups Boys of the Lough and Beginish and his collaborations with the Chieftains and fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.”
Music Network writes: “Winner of the first ever TG4 Traditional Musician of the Year Award, trad legend Tommy Peoples brings the rabble-rousing Donegal fiddle style to the party. After recording classic albums with the Bothy Band, Matt Molloy and Paul Brady in the 1970s, Peoples’ compositions and solo performances have inspired a generation of fiddle players. Equally influential is virtuoso harpist Laoise Kelly, who has breathed new life into the national instrument with her reinterpretation of the O’Carolan canon. Though Kelly has toured the world, collaborating with everyone from Seamus Heaney and Kate Bush to The Chieftains, Sharon Shannon and Dónal Lunny, don’t be surprised to hear her Mayo roots to the fore as she gets those feet a-tapping!”
Tour:
Bantry, Co Cork
Tuesday 9 August
19.30 Ceolchoirm / St. Brendans Church, Bantry
Martin Hayes [fiddle]
Dennis Cahill [guitar]
Michelle O’Sullivan [concertina]
The Begley Family
Tickets
Category 1: €29.00 / Category 2: €20.00 / Category 3: €13.00
Wednesday 10 August
19.30 Ceolchoirm / St. Brendans Church, Bantry
Steve Cooney [guitar]
Mick O’Brien [uilleann pipes]
Jimmy Crowley [singer]
Tickets
Category 1: €29.00 / Category 2: €20.00 / Category 3: €13.00
Thursday 11 August
19.30 Ceolchoirm / St. Brendans Church, Bantry
A Concert of New Compositions for Traditional Musicians
This concert programme is a new collaboration between composer Dave Flynn and four exceptional traditional musicians. The works all receive world premieres at the 2011 Masters of Tradition Festival.
Mick O’Brien [uilleann pipes]
Harry Bradley [flute, whistle]
Aoife O’Brien [fiddle]
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh [fiddle, hardanger fiddle, whistle]
‘The Valley of the Lunatics’ (2010) for detuned ‘Bb’ fiddle, retuned hardanger fiddle and pre-recorded sound collage – 13-15 mins
Performed by Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
‘Études for Uilleann Pipes’ (2009) – 20-25 mins
Performed by Mick O’Brien
Interval
‘The Longest Reel’ (2009) for solo fiddle – 8 mins
Performed by Aoife Ní Bhríain
‘The Forest of Ornaments’ (2010) for Irish flutes, fifes, shakuhachi, fujara and pre-recorded sound collage -11 mins
Performed by Harry Bradley
‘Le Chéile is in Aonar’ (2010) for traditional music ensemble – 2 fiddles, 2 flutes, 3 tin whistles and uilleann pipes – 20-25 mins
Performed by Harry Bradley (flute and tin whistle). Aoife Ní Bhríain (fiddle), Caoímhín Ó Raghallaigh (fiddle and tin whistle) and Mick Ó Brien (uilleann pipes, flute and tin whistle.
Tickets
Category 1: €29.00 / Category 2: €20.00 / Category 3: €13.00
Project Funded by Arts Council of Ireland’s Deis Scheme for the Traditional Arts and Galway County Council’s music bursary scheme
Click here to read programme notes by Dave Flynn
Friday 12 August
16.30 The Ebb and Flow of Irish Traditional Music – Ireland and America with Brendan Dolan / Maritime Hotel
A must for all followers of Irish traditional music.This lecture traces the influences that have helped shape traditional music as we know it today on both sides of the Atlantic. Topics will include the music brought to America by Irish immigrants in the 1800s,
American music collectors, the influence of American 78s and the trans-Atlantic interactions of more recent generations of traditional players. The presentation will feature audio clips and images from the Mick Moloney Irish-American Music and Popular Culture Collection at the Tamiment Library, New York University.
Tickets
€5.00 each
19.30 Ceolchoirm / Bantry House
Máire Ní Cheillachair [singer]
Charlie Harris [button accordion]
Eamonn Cotter [flute]
Geraldine Cotter [concertina]
Tony Linane [fiddle]
Kevin Crawford [flute]
Mick Conneely [bouzouki]
Tickets
Category 1: €29.00 / Category 2: €20.00 / Category 3: €13.00
22.30 Níos Deanaí / Bantry House
Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill [singer]
Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill [singer]
Tickets
€15.00 each
Saturday 13 August
19.30 Ceolchoirm / Bantry House
John Flanagan [singer]
Brian Conway [fiddle]
Brendan Dolan [piano]
Susan McKeown [singer]
Donogh Hennessy [guitar]
José Manuel Neto [ portuguese guitar]
Tickets
Category 1: €29.00 / Category 2: €20.00 / Category 3: €13.00
22.30 Níos Deanaí / Bantry House
Birken Tree [pipes, fiddle and flute]
with Martin Hayes & Denis Cahill
Tickets
€15 each
Sunday 14 August
19.30 Ceolchoirm / Bantry House
Martin Hayes [fiddle], Dennis Cahill [guitar]
with Susan McKeown [singer], Birkin Tree & Steve Cooney [guitar]
Tickets
Category 1: €32.00 / Category 2: €22.00 / Category 3: €14.00
TELEPHONE / IN-PERSON BOOKING OPENS 11 JULY AT 10:30AM – ONLINE BOOKING NOW OPEN
Festival Pass available – Covers all Concerts & Lecture.
Category 1 Festival Pass: €190
Category 2 Festival Pass: €145
Category 3 Festival Pass: €100
Note: Festival Passes must be booked through Box Office. This offer is not available online.
Box Office: +353 (0)27 52788 / West Cork Music 13 Glengarriff Road, Bantry, Co. Cork.
