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Sligo Music Industry Day, Saturday November 24th

Sligo Music and The North West Film and Music Fest will celebrate the links between film and music with a special industry event. The dawning digital age brings unparalleled opportunities for creative artists in all genres to collaborate and reach new global audiences.

This conference will examine key questions around distribution for both filmmakers and musicians, with expert sessions on Film Composing and DIY Distribution.

Panelists including:
Paul Smith (Blast First)
Brian Devine (Gigantic Pictures)

VOD distributors:
Distrify and MusicFilmWeb.com

Steve Wickham (@stevewickham), Nick Kelly (@nickgestation) and Stephen McKeon.

Admission is €5. For more info visit, www.sligomusic.ie

RSVP on facebook here.


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Sligo Music Industry Day – Thursday October 25th

Sligo Music, in association with Sligo Live and The Model, is delighted to present another jam packed Industry event aimed at anyone involved or interested in becoming a part of the music business. Sligo Music Industry Day takes place on Thursday Oct 25th at The Model, from 2 to 6 pm.

Following the success of last year’s industry event which looked at “How to Get Heard”, this year Sligo Music are turning our attention to Touring and have designed a day which will be filled with practical, hands on advice in relation to touring and getting that show out on the road.

The day will feature panel discussions, hands on workshops and lightning talks with representatives from Festivals, Agents and Artists including Peter O’Sullivan, Word of Mouth Agency, Steve Reddy, First Music Contact – FMC Tour, Music from Ireland, HWCH, Dan Hegarty, 2FM and Eurosonic, IMRO and many more.

The full schedule for the event is listed below.  The ticket price of €15.00 includes entrance to the event and the dinner afterwards.

Booking in advance is highly recommended and can be done through The Model website  or by phoning 071 – 914 1405.

Sligo Music is a network in Sligo whose aim is to promote Sligo music and to strengthen the music industry in the town. Visit their website for more information about Sligo Music and how it may benefit you.


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Saturday Jan 21st: Jape at The Model

 

JAPE PLAYS THE MODEL JAN 21ST 2012

AS PART OF IRISH TOUR

Fresh from delighting international audiences with their energetic live show, Jape is set to embark on a nationwide Irish tour in January and February 2012, following the success of 2011′s critically acclaimed album Ocean of Frequency (featuring current single Scorpio), released on music/is/for/losers.

The album has received much critical acclaim being named Irish album of the year by The Sunday Times and lisyted one of Ireland’s top albums for 2011 by The Irish Independent.

Using an innovative mix of live instruments, hardware samplers and sequencers, the band knits together an eclectic blend of meticulously crafted lyrics and electronic rhythms that flit comfortably across a myriad of genres.

Since winning the Choice Music Prize in 2008 for the critically acclaimed ‘Ritual’, Jape has toured extensively and quietly produced an array of new material, culminating in the release of the career-defining 4th album, Ocean of Frequency, on September 30th, 2011.

Jape began making music in 2003. Originally started as the solo project of Richard Egan (The Redneck Manifesto, VisionAir), the band has evolved over the years into one of the most exciting live acts in the country, not to mention releasing 3 critically acclaimed albums to date

Jape will perform at The Model on Saturday, 21st January at 8 pm. Tickets are 15 / 12 and available at www.themodel.ie.


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Dear Sligo, a special thanks to you this Christmas

We would like to take a moment to say thank you for your continued support and readership of SligoEvents.ie throughout 2011. What started as a small blog in 2009,  sharing proudly online what Sligo has to offer, has now reached 100,000 readers this year. We’ve posted nearly 700 events posts since we began and we’re now connected to over 2,000 people on Twitter @SligoEvents and just broaching 2k on Facebook. (G’wan, give us a like..!). That’s nearly 4,000 people who love hearing about what’s happening in Sligo!

We would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to the artists, music makers, crafts people, galleries, curators and all those who make everything happen in County Sligo and especially to you for reading and sharing our posts.

This year we loved the new Craftfest Northwest that brightened up Sligo during winter, we were wowed by the new surf videos from our neighbour Peter Clyne showcasing the massive waves off Sligo beaches, and we adored the new ‘Sligo Sets Your Spirit Free’ brand developed by Sligo Tourism (pictured above).

Exciting Developments this year: 

  • Throughout 2011, we worked with Sligo Arts Service as editor of SligoMusic.ie, the new online home for music in Sligo.
  • In August we gave a Social Media workshop to 30 musicians and music professionals at The Model as part of the Sligo Music Working Forum.
  • We started a new site, Digital Sligo, promoting digital and technology news. We’re very much looking forward to getting stuck in to this in 2012.
  • We are helping to promote The Swap Sessions, a night of fashion and fundraising in Shells next Wednesday December 28th.

In 2012, we look forward to new developments at SligoEvents.ie, new partnerships and of course our favourite festivals Só Sligo Food & Cultural Festival (new dates May 18th – 20th), Sligo Live (Oct 24th – 29th).

A special thanks to Tara McGowan at The Model and Kates Kitchen, Castle Street for supporting our competitions throughout the year.

Email us your events news at our new email: hello@sligoevents.ie

Happy Christmas from SligoEvents.ie


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Yeats Summer School presents Larry Kirwan (Black 47) Rock N Read Tour

“Yeats, Joyce & Black 47″

Kirwan, a founding member and mainstay of riotous New York-Irish rock n’roll band Black 47, and all around renaissance man (novelist, playwright, memoirist, historian, musical theatre composer, DJ) presents the world premiere of his new one-man show.

Check out Larry and all things Black 47 at www.black47.com


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Retro rock n’ roll & vintage american at McGarrigles, Wed May 25th

The Red-Hots, Sligo’s hottest rockabilly outfit- playing retro rock-n-roll and vintage American dance hall boogie!

Featuring a rhythm section of Jaimie Carswell and Tony Travers (ex-Wurlitzer), Seannan Brennan (from Kila) on guitar, and frontman Wayne O Connor (legend). Come on you Hepcats and Betties, agitate the gravel and goose it down to McGarrigles, get your two-tones on and get ready to jive! It’ll be totally antsville!

Playing in McGarrigles on Wednesday 25th May, 9.30pm, Admission free.

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