Bag a bargain at Cairde Arts Festival BIG Auction on June 7th
May 24, 2012 at 11:19 pm | Posted in Festivals | Leave a comment
Thursday June 7th – The Glass House, The View Bar, 8pm
Some of this year’s highlights include Yungchen Lhamo in concert with Liam O’Maonlai, Madu, Delicious O’Grady, The Cool Mules, Papagena Puppet Theatre and a whole lot more. Annual highlights include The Shelly River Boat Race and Park Fest – two massive outdoor celebrations for all the family and all for free!
To enable us to bring such a wonderful festival to the town, the Cairde committee is busy year round raising funds. The Big Auction is our main annual fundraiser and is also a great night out. Businesses and individuals in Sligo are extremely generous in donating a wide range of goods and services which we then auction off at a reduction of the original price.
It’s win win! Come to the auction – bag a bargain whilst raising funds and helping us to present an excellent week long festival.
Some of the items on auction this year include art and craft work by Rachel Quinn , Billie Moore, Barra Cassidy, and Lynda Gault; sailing, surfing , fishing and flying lessons; Cinemobile Hire; One night’s B & B and dinner B&B in Markree Castle; Festival and concert tickets, Jewellery, vintage clothes and lots more. Check out our facebook event for a more comprehensive listing.
The Cairde Arts Festival wishes to take this opportunity to thank all of those who have donated.
See you all at The Glass House on Thursday June 7th, 8pm
For more information contact info@cairdefestival.com or check out our website: www.cairdefestival.com
A Day Fit For A Poet – the launch of Yeats Day on June 13th
May 23, 2012 at 7:00 am | Posted in Arts | Leave a comment
The inaugural Yeats Day was launched last week in Sligo at the Yeats Building in Hyde Street.
Celebrating the legacy of WB Yeats in Sligo – his spiritual home – is a wonderful event for Sligo and for Ireland. WB Yeats always made clear his love of Sligo and the role it played in his written work over many decades. The Yeats Day event will be on W.B. Yeats’ birthday – Wednesday June 13th 2012. On that day, Sligo will set the spirit of Yeats free in his spiritual home.
The schedule of events for the day will run from dawn to dusk and embrace places and spaces in Sligo that were dear to Yeats. The day will encourage the community – young and old – to come out on the streets – to enjoy music, poetry, readings and much more – in celebration of a unique poet in a unique place. Yeats Day is a collaborative event – locally with Sligo County Council, Sligo Borough Council, County Library, the Hawkswell, the Factory, the Model, the Western Development Commission.
It is funded by the Department of the Arts and Failte Ireland and is the first time that WB Yeats birthday will be celebrated in this way in Sligo. On the day the Abbey Theatre, the National Library and the National Gallery will all take part locally in Sligo and the Japanese ambassador Mr Atsumi will be in Sligo to celebrate also.
Minister Deenihan will officially inaugurate the day at Drumcliffe where WB Yeats is buried. The event is supported by the esteemed Yeats Society. Its president Joe Cox said today that he is “delighted to see Yeats shared in the wider community. He is a wonderful poet and we in Sligo are proud of him and want to share his work and raise his profile – especially among children.” Senator Susan O’Keeffe said “this is an idea I had many years ago – to bring the love of Yeats onto the streets and for the community to be able to share this wonderful poet in many different ways. I am delighted to be part of a collaboration that will allow everyone – young and old – to celebrate this man and the contribution he made to Sligo and internationally to English literature. “
Regional director of Failte Ireland Martina Bromley welcomed the launch and added that “it is part of a new Yeats season that will see Yeats in Sligo across the summer. There is wonderful work taking place that will offer theatre, music and poetry that everyone can enjoy. Yeats Day will kick off that season in style.”
Programme of Events
11:00am – The Yeats Society
A special birthday celebration at the venerabel Society on Hyde Bridge.
11:30am – The National Library Collection
Exhibiting for the first time. The National Library brings some of its precious Yeats collection to the Pollexfen Building in Wine Street, home of WB Yeats’ mother’s family shipping business. Sligo IT will also exhibit some of it Yeats collection.
12noon - The Japanese Connection
Ambassador Atsumi opens a Yeats-inspired art exhibition by Irish-based Yoko Akino at The Hamilton Gallery on Castle Street.
1pm – 7pm The Abbey Theatre performs at the Hawkswell.
2pm The National Gallery celebrates at The Model
4:30-6:30pm - Happy Birthday Mr Yeats
The people of Sligo and beyond, young and old, gather in O’Connell Street to meet the Fiddlers and Fairies of WB Yeats imagination, to share birthday cake and balloons enjoy poetry and music on this very special day. Youth drama and visual arts group Branching Out and musicians from Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann will join the festivities. Local school children will decorate shop windows with their birthday cards.
7:15pm – Party Piece
Your chance to perform and enjoy – song, music, reading, poetry in Hargadons with Shaun Purcell.
8:45pm – No Crows at Dusk
No Crows end the birthday with beautiful music at Sligo Abbey, Abbey St.
Plus: The Living Statue, music, choral Yeats, competitions, birthday cards, ‘Poem in my Pocket’
Follow Yeats Day online at yeatsday.com | @YeatsDay2012 | #yeatsday |
July 1st – 8th: Celebrate Diversity in Sligo with Cáirde Arts Festival
May 21, 2012 at 10:30 am | Posted in Festivals | Leave a commentThe Cairde F
estival is Sligo’s annual arts festival celebrating diversity. The festival takes place for one week each year in July and Sligo comes alive with an excellent range of music, theatre, dance, children’s and family events, visual art and more.
Uniquely, Cairde also presents Concerts in Care – a series of performances which take place in care settings for those who are not able to attend. Events to inspire, enthrall, amuse, engage, challenge, take part in. Come to Sligo from July 1st to 8th and join in!
Some of this year’s highlights include Yungchen Lhamo in concert with Liam O’Maonlai, The Shelly River Boat Race, Madu, Delicious O’Grady and a lot more.
The Shelly River Boat Race kicks off the festival on Sunday July 1st and forms a part of the official Sligo 400 celebrations. The Shelley River Boat Race is a fantastic outdoor celebration of the Shelley River (Sligo’s Garavogue river) featuring a model boat race on the river with a myriad of colourful street entertainment and music along the river banks. Cairde is running a series of boat making workshops towards participation in this year’s race. Starting at 7.30pm on JFK Parade this will be a brilliant fun event for all the family to enjoy.
There’s lots of fun for children with Miquel Barceló & Felip Carbonell bringing their Rhythms and Stories from the Mediterranean Sea to the new Latin Quarter in Sligo on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd at 12 and 3pm. A show billed for children, but suitable for all ages, these two Mediterraneans have lived too long in a country where it rains too much, so they create their own Mediterranean with tales from their “sunny homeland” mixed with melodies and songs. Admission is €10 and includes lunch.
Wednesday and Thursday brings more fun for the kids with Papagena – the House at the Model at 12 and 3pm (€8 admission). This is a real puppet show for all the family (suitable for children aged 3 – 8). Saturday tops off the kid’s entertainment with a site specific inter-active children’s theatre promenade The Stolen Child at 2 and 4pm. €10 this includes transport to the Fairy Glen, Strandhill, a picnic and lots of fun.
It’s also an action packed week for the grown-ups too with lots to choose from. Barra Cassidy’s solo Visual Arts exhibition Just Let Go – a collection of mixed media sculpture and photography in on show all week at The Yeats Gallery. Tom Portman plays solo guitar in Osta café on Tuesday evening at 7pm. Admission is free. On Monday and Tuesday evening you can catch Delicious O’Grady at the Factory at 8pm (€10). Delicious O’Grady is a tragicomedy set in the time of the Great Irish Famine (though it wasn’t that great). Inspired by the satirical works of Flann O’Brien, this circus theatre piece tells the tale of a family and its demise during the great hunger. It is a story of love, loss and potatoes. Also at the Factory on Wednesday evening Sketches of Mexico offers Classical Guitar from Morgan Szymanski – a world famous guitarist who plays music from all around the classical world with emphasis on Mexican, Spanish, Brazilian music and Argentinian tangos, along with a Visual Art exhibition from Peter Crann (€10).
On Thursday 5th at 8pm, there’s a theatrical experience with a difference in Jimmy Gralton’s Dance Hall at St. Anne’s, a show combining music, dance all under the skilled direction of writer Donal O’Kelly, where everyone gets a part! More world music later at 10pm in McGarrigles from Assembly Point (€5) – the innovative project of three exceptional musicians who share a passion for acoustic folk music. Together, they create new instrumental themes borne out of their collective music traditions of Galicia, Portugal, and Ireland. More music on Friday in The Swagman at 8pm (free admission) and from Congolese band The Lace in McGarrigles at 10pm (€10).
Perhaps the festival highlight two inspirational musicians Yungchen Lhamo and Liam O’Maonlai take to the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre on Saturday night July 7th at 8pm for a rare musical and spiritual treat (€20/18conc). Madu top off the evening with dub reggae at McGarrigles at 10pm (€10).
On Sunday from 12 to 7pm the general public converge on the beautiful ‘Peace Park’ – a secret gem in the centre of Sligo town for Park Fest, a free day long celebration of all communities in Sligo with music, great food from all over the world and fun for all the family – the perfect way to celebrate diversity. Sligo is the place to be from July 1st to 8th this year!
Music Generation Sligo Young Musicians Feature in a Céilí House Special
May 21, 2012 at 8:45 am | Posted in Music | Leave a commentSun 27th May: The Bad Plus Pack ‘Rite’ Punch with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring at the Hawk’s Well Theatre
May 20, 2012 at 11:48 am | Posted in Music | Leave a comment
Over the past ten years The Bad Plus have broken down the walls of jazz convention and created an uncompromising body of work. Few jazz groups in recent memory have amassed such popularity and critical acclaim. While the bulk of their output has been original music, they are equally at home with tunes by Blondie, Bacharach, Nirvana and Aphex Twin. ON SACRED GROUND sees the piano trio take on Stravinsky’s iconic Rite of Spring. The famed ballet that caused a riot on its premiere, opened the door to 20th Century music and animated Disney’s Fantasia. The Rite is a touchstone rooted in tribal and Russian folk music. Virtuoso, playful and visceral, The Bad Plus’ mutli-media show, On Sacred Ground, breathes new life into this popular masterpiece.
Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) is often held up as a masterwork that changed modern music forever. Music commentator Miles Hoffman takes the distinction one step further. “The Rite of Spring,” Hoffman says, “represents one of the greatest creative leaps in not only the history of music, but in the history of the arts.”Stravinsky’s music is famous for causing a riot at its premiere. It was a warm spring evening in Paris on May 29, 1913, and Hoffman says the well-heeled crowd at the Champs Élysées Theatre was not ready for jagged rhythms, crunching discord, and the strange jerking of the dancers on stage.
“The ballet was choreographed by the great Nijinsky,” Hoffman says, “and the noise, fighting, and shouting in the audience got so loud, he had to shout out the numbers to the dancers so that they knew what they were supposed to do.”
One shrewd musicologist wrote that “the pagans on stage made pagans of the audience.” Hoffman says that the idea of pagans is right on the mark.”The subtitle of The Rite of Spring,” Hoffman says, “is ‘Pictures of Pagan Russia,’ a celebration of pagan rituals that eventually leads to a sacrifice of a chosen young woman to propitiate the gods of spring. It’s not what you call a happy tale.”
The shock of the new, in 1913, quickly gave way to a warm embrace. More performances of The Rite of Spring followed close on the heels of that famous first night, and by the 1920s, it was played in the U.S. In the 1940s, the infamous piece gained a permanent place in pop culture when Walt Disney used part of it as the soundtrack to Fantasia. Today, The Rite of Spring remains a classic, but it also still packs a punch.
The Bad Plus will perform Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring at the Hawk’s Well Theatre on Sun 27 May at 8pm as part of a nationwide tour which includes performances at Mandela Hall, Belfast, The National Concert Hall, The Riverbank in Kildare, The Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick and the Triskel Christchurch in Cork. Tickets for the Hawk’s Well show are €25 and are available from the Box Office on 071 916 1518 or from www.hawkswell.com
“By turns cerebral, visceral, and disarmingly emotive, The Bad Plus boast a rare onstage magnetism that transcends genre” Time Out New York
“It’s about as badass as highbrow gets.” Rolling Stone
“If the Coen Brothers put together a jazz trio, perhaps it would be like this, the comic and the dramatic rolled together.” The Guardian
“Audacious, rule-breaking jazz trio crunches and at times pulverizes swing to let improvisational freedom shine…Dynamics play a huge roll in the act’s music, as does humor, an element sorely lacking in most of contemporary jazz. But beauty is also key… jazz purists tremble while the vanguard flocks.” Billboard
June 23rd: Andy Irvine at The Model
May 20, 2012 at 11:36 am | Posted in Music | Leave a comment€20/€18/€16 / €16 Early Bird tickets available for a limited time.
“..one of Ireland’s most creative talents for over 20 years.” – Boston Globe
Andy Irvine has enjoyed a long and successful career as a traditional Irish musician. He has travelled the world as a solo artist and as a member of legendary Irish groups such as Planxty, Patrick Street and more recently Mozaik. Throughout his extensive career he has maintained and developed the qualities in his music, which endear him to his audience and fellow musicians alike.
Now the legendary Irish singer/songwriter Andy Irvine is coming to perform at The Model. With his impressive repertoire of Irish traditional songs and dexterous Balkan dance tunes, he creates an exciting new fusion of Irish and World Music not to be missed.
Andy continues to pursue new combinations and styles of music. He has broadened his musical horizons over the course of his forty-year career to encompass the musical styles of countries he visits, such as the Balkan folk style of playing. Between the achievements of his solo, group work and collaborations, he is a highly revered troubadour of the Irish music world.
“Andy Irvine is someone whose singing I have always loved. He always takes you to the place he’s in. He creates a world … Andy singing a song like Bonny Woodhall or West Coast of Clare, or a song like The Jolly Beggar, songs of another era, but tapped into beautifully by Andy and his treatment of them.”
Donal Lunny
June 15th – 17th: Rosses Point Shanty & Seafaring Festival
May 20, 2012 at 11:20 am | Posted in Festivals | Leave a comment
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June 15th – 17th: No Place Like Dome at Temple House
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Thurs 7th June Cairde Arts Festival: The Big Auction
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Wed 23rd May: Sligo Races
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