CAIRDE FESTIVAL LINE UP 2012
Date:
July 10, 2013
Time: 17.00
Event: Tom Portman – Guitar and Dobro
Category: Music
Venue: Chapters Café
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€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 11, 2013
Time: 21.00
Event: The Troubadour Mules
Category: Music
Venue: The Hawk’s Well Foyer
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€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: 9.30, 10.30
Event: Encounter & African Grooves
Category: Music
Venue: The Gaiety Cinema & The Swagman Bar
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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
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€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: 19.00
Event: Vintage Tea Dance
Category: Music
Venue: Lyons Café
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€15.00
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Includes High Tea
Date:
July 13, 2013
Time: 20.00
Event: The Jerry Fish Show
Category: Music
Venue: The Model
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€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: 22.00
Event: Festival Club with DJs and Percussion
Category: Music
Venue: McGarrigles
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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: 15.00 - 22.00
Event: Dunes Day
Category: Music
Venue: The Dune's Bar
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€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 14, 2013
Time: 20.00
Event: Old Hannah
Category: Music
Venue: Lyons Café
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€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!”.
