CAIRDE FESTIVAL LINE UP 2013
Date: July 10, 2013
Time:
16.00 - 18.00
Event: Network 4
Category: Visual Arts
Venue: Sligo Arts Psychotherapy Centre
Admin:
FREE
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A visual art exhibition and dialogue
"Network 4", an exhibition of artwork facilitated by artists and art therapists who work with people in the community and health care settings.
‘Network 4 Dialogue’ A dialogue forum for open discussion and debate about network members own practice and arts in the community practices in general. All are welcome. The dialogie will be facilitated by artists Pia Luck, Rebecca O’Connor and Catherine Fanning.
For more information about Network 4 contact catherinefanning@hotmail.com
Date: July 10, 2013
Time:
17.00
Event: Tom Portman – Guitar and Dobro
Category: Music
Venue: Chapters Café
Admin:
€5.00
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(Price includes a glass of wine)
Multi-instrumentalist, performer, composer and songwriter Tom Portman is based in the west of Ireland. Playing acoustic & electric guitar, Dobro & lap steel, Tom presents a wide repertoire. His compositions draw on many global styles yet have a distinct flavour of their own.
July 2013 sees Tom release his third solo album entitled “People Create”. This recording collection features the Blusier side of Tom’s original song and instrumental compositions.
Fascinating… he is absolutely captivating.’ Galway Bay FM
Date: July 10, 2013
Time:
18.00
Event: An Issue Worth Mentioning
Category: Visual Arts
Venue: The Yeats Art Gallery
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FREE
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The show continues daily until Sunday July 21st , 10 am to 6 pm
Welcome to the Cairde Arts Festival’s first group visual art show. We have invited eight artists to participate in this exhibition with up to 3 pieces each. As part of the exhibition, we asked the artists to respond to the theme “An Issue Worth mentioning” with at least one of their pieces. The response has been diverse and strong. Artists have chosen to highlight wide ranging subjects such as climate change, hare coursing, waste and its disposal, mental health issues and more.
An Issue Worth Mentioning features work by Michael Budd, Tina Brooks, Barra Cassidy, Sue Morris, Cormac O’Leary, Tom O’Rourke, Vanya Lambrecht Ward and Heidi Wickham.
Curated by Barra Cassidy and Heidi Wickham.
Date: July 10, 2013
Time:
20.00
Event: A Wine Goose Chase
Category: Theatre
Venue: Source Sligo
Admin:
€20.00
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Price includes wine tasting.
Susan Boyle loves wine. What’s more she knows what she’s drinking and talking about. She’s got 2,000 years of Irish wine history to back her up! So, sit back, let her pour you a glass while she takes you on a trip with the tenacious Irish people who transformed the wine world and didn’t let coming from a grape-free land stop them.
This one-woman theatrical performance fuses interactive wine tasting with storytelling in a warm intimate setting. Audience members will have the opportunity to put their senses to use and hopefully leave with a new insight to a drink that has been part of Ireland’s history for much longer than we might think.
"The history, decanted along with increasingly potent tastings, is fascinating" Peter Crawley The Irish Times
Date: July 10, 2013
Time:
22.00
Event: Cairde Festival Opening Party: With Salsa band Ocho Punto G
Category: Dance
Venue: The Swagman (Courtyard)
Admin:
FREE
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Salsa Dance Class from 9 to 10 pm
Learn the basic steps in salsa, merengue and bachata!
10pm Ocho Punto G
Followed by DJ Pedro
8 punto G is a musical group born straight out of the streets of Barcelona, made up of latin musicians from various cultures , which makes up the final sound of the band.
The musical concept is a mix of Caribbean genres such as Salsa Merengue, Bachata, including some influences of reggae and even Latin Jazz and Funk, giving a full variety of sounds among the repertory. 8 punto G represent energy, happiness, warmth, color and expression, a general good vibe which people of any age, race or cultural background can enjoy.
Immerse yourself in Dance to Urban tropical Music.
Date: July 10, 2013
Time:
10.00 - 18.00
Event: Numberless Dreams & Kate MacDonagh Solo Show
Category: Visual Arts
Venue: The Hamilton Gallery
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FREE
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July 10th - 14th Open Daily
Numberless DreamsAs part of the Gathering 2013, Hamilton Gallery invited US and Irish
artists living and working in New York to submit works themed around the poetry of W.B
Yeats. The result is “Numberless Dreams” which features artists Crystal Gandrud, Steven
Corsano, Shawn Dulaney, Helen O'Leary, Helen O' Toole, and Nuala Clarke. This exhibit
will run at the Hamilton Gallery until August 31st.
Kate Mac DonaghSligo born painter Kate Mac Donagh’s work focuses on an intuitive
response to the landscape. Being from Sligo, a major influence is the landscape evoked by
the plays and poetry of W.B. Yeats. This exhibition features a series of masks - inspired by
Yeats’ ‘Dance Plays’ - heavily influenced by the Japanese Noh theatre.
Date: July 11, 2013
Time:
21.00
Event: Sorcha Fox - Who am Ireland?
Category: Theatre
Venue: The Factory Performance Space
Admin:
€10.00
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A live performance poetry piece with music – ‘Who Am Ireland?’ is a new work by Irish writer/performer Sorcha Fox. Inspired by events in Ireland in the recent past this piece asks; What is Ireland now? What has happened to us and what have we done about it? Performed with live music, Sorcha Fox’s ‘Who Am Ireland?’ is a contemporary poetic riff on identity - personal and National, in the spirit of challenge.
“Fox’s concentration, her physical poise and her pitch perfect accent work make her one of the most impressive Irish actors this reviewer has ever seen.” Irishcentral.com, New York
Date: July 11, 2013
Time:
21.00
Event: The Troubadour Mules
Category: Music
Venue: The Hawk’s Well Foyer
Admin:
€10.00
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Born and bred in a Mediterranean farm, The Mules, Felip Carbonell and Miquel Barceló, are a hybrid off-spring duo long time emigrated from their sunny Mallorca. Destination: rainy Ireland where they have teamed-up with two native mules, Ken McDonald and Eddie McFarlane.
Their repertoire is like a journey meandering from Mallorcan traditional music to Catalan rumba and havanera; from popular italian songs to the Atlantic coast of Iberia. Finally we sail accross the Atlantic to land in Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Texas, Louisiana before we head for our final destination: Rainy Ireland. Here is where we feel the urge to bring the music from all these warm countries - happy dancing music.
From port to port, like wandering minstrels, they sing, dance and improvise with the rough poetry of the common people searching to spread the universal spirit of celebration.
Date: July 11, 2013
Time:
22.00
Event: The Corner Boys
Category: Music
Venue: Furey’s
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FREE
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The Corner Boys are a new six piece band that have taken up residence in Fureys Pub for the summer. With a shared passion for American music, this group formed out of a local Bluegrass session. Playing guitar, mandolin, harmonica, dobro, bass and drums and with multi-vocalists this group will surprise you with anything from Honky Tonk to Blues Stomp. Travelling through the history of recorded music choosing songs and tunes from the 1930's to now, the Corner Boys promise an eclectic and lively night of music.
Date: July 11, 2013
Time:
13.00 & 17.30
Event: Fred & Alice
Category: Theatre
Venue: The Factory Performance Space
Admin:
€12.00
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Includes light lunch / supper
It’s not easy to get by in this crazy old world. But Fred and Alice have discovered that all you really need are 2 tennis rackets, disproportionate reactions to minor accidents, an immature coping strategy and each other.
Fred and Alice first met in the home. It wasn’t really a home but Fred always called it a home because that was where he lived, and if you are not living at home then where are you? It was love at first sight for Alice. Fred didn’t talk to her again for years but then eventually Fred got used to her and it was love at first sight for him too.
“This is clever and absorbing stuff, nudging at a more provocative piece about disability rights” Irish Times
Date: July 11, 2013
Time:
11.30 & 2.30
Event: Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
Category: Family Events
Venue: Casa Mia
Admin:
€2.00
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Storytelling & Animation. €2 per child / 3 children €5
A Storytelling session with a difference. Combining the magic of words from the actress
and storyteller Fiona McGeown with cartoons drawn live during the session by Artist
Wayne O Connor, the kids will be fully immersed in these revolting tales! As the words
create pictures in the mind, the art creates a feast for the eye! Suitable for ages 4+.
Spaces are limited booking is essential as spaces are limited.
Date: July 11, 2013
Time:
9.30, 10.30
Event: Encounter & African Grooves
Category: Music
Venue: The Gaiety Cinema & The Swagman Bar
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FREE
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Film followed by Music.
Sabona Productions & Loch Bó Films present Encounter, a romantic comedy set in Sligo:
African boy meets Irish girl and some people don’t like it. The story centers on Jonah,
(Mustafa Abdi), who visits Sligo from South Africa on business, but finds he is falling for
Irish girl, Bella (Marsha Fleming). He quickly realises that the ways of Sligo are quite
different to those from home and has to learn what makes an Irish girl tick. Encounter
was a community film project, written by and starring a diverse group of international
and Irish people living in Sligo.
The film will be screened at the Gaiety Cinema Sligo for free and will be followed by
African DJ’s Freddy and Adricha playing African grooves in the courtyard of The
Swagman.
Date: July 12, 2013
Time:
23.00
Event: Túcan and the Brass String Ensemble
Category: Music
Venue: Shenanigans
Admin:
€10.00
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With support by Sarah Crummy followed by DJ Barra
Tucan is an 8 piece band complete with brass and string section hailing originally from
Sligo, Tucan are a band who, since forming 6 years ago, have constantly evolved and
developed as a musical entity. Originally a guitar duo, they morphed into a four piece
along the way and most recently have completed their transformation into a ‘big band’
complete with brass and string. Tucan has consistently and successfully furrowed a name
for itself within the ever changing Irish music industry. Tucan's Live show is a
combination of groove filled acoustic power funk and unique melodies which together
with their already huge sound make for an unholy monster of melodic and harmonic
madness!
Date: July 12, 2013
Time:
11.30 - 1
Event: The Corner Boys
Category: Family Events
Venue: Coleman’s Electric shop (Stephen St Car Park entrance)
Admin:
€5.00
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Drumming and Percussion for 8 to 12 year olds.
Date: July 12, 2013
Time:
11.30 - 1
Event: Drumming and Percussion for 8 to 12 year olds
Category: Family Events
Venue: Coleman’s Electric shop (Stephen St Car Park entrance)
Admin:
€5.00
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Adm: 5.00 (to each workshop / 8.00 to attend both days)
Date: July 12, 2013
Time:
2 to 3.30
Event: Drumming and Percussion for 12 - 16 year olds
Category: Family Events
Venue: Venue: Coleman’s Electric shop (Stephen St Car Park entrance)
Admin:
€5.00
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Adm: 5.00 (to each workshop / 8.00 to attend both days)
Date: July 12, 2013
Time:
13.00 & 17.30
Event: Fred & Alice
Category: Theatre
Venue: The Factory Performance Space
Admin:
€12.00
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Includes light lunch & Supper
It’s not easy to get by in this crazy old world. But Fred and Alice have discovered that all you really need are 2 tennis rackets, disproportionate reactions to minor accidents, an immature coping strategy and each other.
Fred and Alice first met in the home. It wasn’t really a home but Fred always called it a home because that was where he lived, and if you are not living at home then where are you? It was love at first sight for Alice. Fred didn’t talk to her again for years but then eventually Fred got used to her and it was love at first sight for him too.
“This is clever and absorbing stuff, nudging at a more provocative piece about disability rights” Irish Times
Date: July 12, 2013
Time:
19.00
Event: Vintage Tea Dance
Category: Music
Venue: Lyons Café
Admin:
€15.00
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Includes High Tea
Date: July 12, 2013
Time:
11.30 & 2.30
Event: Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
Category: Family Events
Venue: The Model
Admin:
€2.00
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€2 per child / 3 children €5
A Storytelling session with a difference. Combining the magic of words from the actress
and storyteller Fiona McGeown with cartoons drawn live during the session by Artist
Wayne O Connor, the kids will be fully immersed in these revolting tales! As the words
create pictures in the mind, the art creates a feast for the eye! Suitable for ages 4+.
Spaces are limited booking is essential as spaces are limited.
Date: July 12, 2013
Time:
22.00
Event: Le Cabaret Oublié
Category: Theatre
Venue: The Hawkswell
Admin:
€12.00
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Ringleader, maestro, and boss Chauncyhas a vision: to create a show dedicated to the
lost art of the cabaret. But the idiots he works with have other ideas. In Le Cabaret Oublié
we join this family of clowns on a spectacular voyage into the absurd. From music, to
dance, to song, storytelling, theatre, and magic - these hopeful fools put their hearts on
the line to create the Show of All Shows!
An immersive underground cabaret experience, Le Cabaret Oubliéis a clown show torn
from some dusty basement in Pigalle and delivered to your doorstep for your enjoyment!
“Consummate physical comedians!”
The New York Times
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
21.00
Event: The Jerry Fish Show
Category: Music
Venue: The Model
Admin:
€18.00
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Jerry Fish is a carny soul, one who has spent much of his life on the road, a shape-shifter, showman, shaman, producer, songwriter, performer, entrepreneur, supper club crooner from Lynchville. Whether operating as The Mudbug Club’s ringmaster, a rock peacock (An Emotional Fish), or patron of poets and spoken word performers (Michael Madsen, The Revelator Orchestra), he has always favoured innovation over orthodoxy.
Jerry’s shows have been known to transform sedate tux ‘n’ frock audiences into Roman galley slaves rowing their way through ‘The Hole In the Boat’, or ballroom-of-romancers slow-dancing to ‘Back To Before’, or swampy block parties gyrating to bacchanalian classics like ‘Celebrate’.
Jerry Fish’s antecedents are not stadium rock bands but burlesque artists, circus acts, carny barkers, travelling players, showfolk all.
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
12.00, 14.00, 1900.
Event: Paperbelle by Frozen Charlotte
Category: Theatre
Venue: The Factory
Admin:
€8.00
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Parent and Child - €12
Family of 4 - €20
Paperbelle’s world is black and white and she likes it that way. She’s heard of colour; but would prefer things to stay as they are. The colours, on the other hand, want to play games and they want Paperbelle to join in. Paperbelle’s world is changing – will she try to stop it or might she find it’s not as bad as it first seemed…?
An enchanting theatre performance for children aged 2 to 5 years and their families, friends, schools and nurseries. Paperbelle is a gentle and playful exploration of colour set in a magical world of paper..
‘…beautifully engineered, full of really clever surprises’ – The Herald
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
11.30 – 1
Event: Drumming and Percussion for 8 to 12 year olds
Category: Family Events
Venue: Venue: Coleman’s Electric shop (Stephen St Car Park entrance)
Admin:
€5.00
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Adm: 5.00 (to each workshop / 8.00 to attend both days)
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
2 to 3.30
Event: Drumming and Percussion for 12 - 16 year olds
Category: Family Events
Venue: Coleman’s Electric shop (Stephen St Car Park entrance)
Admin:
€5.00
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Adm: 5.00 (to each workshop / 8.00 to attend both days)
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
22.00
Event: Festival Club with DJs and Percussion
Category: Music
Venue: McGarrigles
Admin:
FREE
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Round of the perfect day with global world sounds and rocking rythems provided by One World DJ Will SOftly, a regular at The Electric Picnic, Body and Soul and resident DJ at Galways Arus na Gael. He will be joined by percussionists to create live and spontaneous sound.
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
11.30 & 2.30
Event: The Lonely Beast by Chris Judge
Category: Family Events
Venue: Chapters Coffee House
Admin:
€5.00
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Award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Chris Judge is bringing his famous Lonely Beast to Sligo for the Cairde Arts Festival. Chris will take us through the story of The Lonely Beast followed by a make-your-own beast workshop.
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
12.00 - 17.00
Event: Sligo Flea Market
Category: N/A
Venue: The Model
Admin:
FREE
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Sligo's very own Flea, a place to meet and mingle, buy or browse. We have vintage
clothing and homewares, vinyl records, local crafts and bric-a-brac all for your perusal!
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
14.00 - 16.00
Event: The Italian Quarter Street Party
Category: Street Art Spectical
Venue: The Italian Quarter
Admin:
FREE
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Join us in the Italian Quarter for our summer street party with stilt walkers, jugglers, face
painting and more such mischievous mayhem. Food & drink will be served outdoors. Live
music from 4pm to 6pm.
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
14.30 - 16.00
Event: Kid's Global Disco
Category: Family Events
Venue: The Italian Quarter
Admin:
€3.00
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As part of the ItalianQuarter Street Party. €3 per child.
Children! Bounce, wiggle, move and groove to some of the best in global sounds by effervescent One World Irish DJ Will Softly. A regular at the Electric Picnic, Body & Soul Festival, the Garden Party and more. DJ Will Softly invites kids and their parents alike to boogie on down
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
15.00 - 22.00
Event: Dunes Day
Category: Music
Venue: The Dune's Bar
Admin:
€10.00
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The Cairde Arts Festival have teamed up with Origin Pro and The Dunes Bar to bring the
second annual Dune’s Day to life with a massive selection of bands playing live in the
markee from 3pm until late including The Odd Socks, Red Brick House, Blind Fox and
The Hot Sprockets.
Date: July 13, 2013
Time:
20.00
Event: Le Cabaret Oublié
Category: Theatre
Venue: The Hawks Well Theatre
Admin:
€12.00
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Ringleader, maestro, and boss Chauncyhas a vision: to create a show dedicated to the
lost art of the cabaret. But the idiots he works with have other ideas. In Le Cabaret Oublié
we join this family of clowns on a spectacular voyage into the absurd. From music, to
dance, to song, storytelling, theatre, and magic - these hopeful fools put their hearts on
the line to create the Show of All Shows!
An immersive underground cabaret experience, Le Cabaret Oubliéis a clown show torn
from some dusty basement in Pigalle and delivered to your doorstep for your enjoyment!
“Consummate physical comedians!”
The New York Times
Date: July 14, 2013
Time:
20.00
Event: Old Hannah
Category: Music
Venue: Lyons Café
Admin:
€14.00
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From the foot of Ben Bulben to the peaks of the Appalachians, this Irish four-piece are firmly rooted in old-time sounds. Old Hannah’s blend of traditional and contemporary influences reveals a unique country-roots sound that transcends geography and generations.
The musical progression of Old Hannah — Luke, Anthony, Lucie and Leo— has been an adventure that began in the North west of Ireland and stretched to Dublin city. Their music will keep you enthralled with their four-part vocal harmonies which are core to their sound. Masterful guitar picking, buckleppin’ banjo and heart-stopping dobro licks accompany melodies that take you through thrilling journeys as you “ride that train from Thomas St, on to Tennessee!”.
Date: July 14, 2013
Time:
19.00
Event: Le Cabaret Oublié
Category: Theatre
Venue: The Hawks Well Theatre
Admin:
€12.00
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Ringleader, maestro, and boss Chauncyhas a vision: to create a show dedicated to the
lost art of the cabaret. But the idiots he works with have other ideas. In Le Cabaret Oublié
we join this family of clowns on a spectacular voyage into the absurd. From music, to
dance, to song, storytelling, theatre, and magic - these hopeful fools put their hearts on
the line to create the Show of All Shows!
An immersive underground cabaret experience, Le Cabaret Oubliéis a clown show torn
from some dusty basement in Pigalle and delivered to your doorstep for your enjoyment!
“Consummate physical comedians!”
The New York Times
