www.sligolive.ie

OVER 100 PERFORMANCES, OVER 400 PERFORMERS
OVER 6 DAYS, 80% FREE, ALL INDOORS

2011’s Last Big Festival, SLIGO LIVE is getting ready to welcome an array of International artists and thousands of dedicated fans to Sligo this October Bank Holiday Weekend.  SLIGO LIVE, folk, roots and indie music Festival runs over 6 days from October 26th – 31st.  With over 100 performances, 400 performers, and with 80% free your only problem is choosing which gig to go to next!
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www.junctionscork.com
Thursday 20th October at  8:00pm

The Pavilion, Carey’s Lane, Cork City

The 4th instalment of the exciting Junctions series of traditional music concerts takes place this Thursday in the Pavilion, Cork city.

The line-up features artists at the cutting edge of both the Irish and Scottish traditional music scenes including accordionist extraordinaire Máirtín O’Connor accompanied by the legendary Dónal Lunny, the mesmerizing voice of Capercaillie’s Karen Matheson along with fellow band member (and husband) Donald Shaw, as well as regular hosts Karan Casey and Buille.

Tickets are on sale at €20 each  available from the Pavilion and tickets.ie.

For more information visit www.junctionscork.com or ring 0872235355.

Traditional music group FullSet are the winners of the RTÉ Radio/RAAP traditional music bursary to the value of €5000. The winners of the four bursaries (classical, trad, pop, folk) were announced on Thursday evening during an RTÉ Radio concert featuring the 12 shortlisted acts.

FullSet is made up Seán McCarthy, Janine Redmond, Andrew Meaney, Teresa Horgan, Michael Harrison and Eamonn Moloney, with members hailing mainly from Munster – Cork and Tipperary – complimented by two Dubs!  FullSet released their debut album, Notes at Liberty, earlier this year, and they have a lot of experience of playing at festivals in Ireland and throughout Europe, and have played with musicians such as Moya Brennan, Fred Morrison, Lúnasa and Carlos Nuñez.
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New Cultural Event for Carlingford.
This Halloween sees a new cultural event take place in Carlingford.

The Carlingford Canadian/Irish Cultural Day, which has been organised by those cultural trailblazers Carlingford Community Development, examines the cultural links between Carlingford and Canada. The highlight of this inaugural cultural event will be the Carlingford premier of the play “Griffintown”.

Griffintown by two piece théâtre group Théâtre Rua, is a dramatic piece of theatre, set in Montreal’s Irish community.
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Galway trio, We Banjo 3 selected to participate in Music Network’s unique professional development award programme

www.musicnetwork.ie

“We Banjo 3 are terrific. There really isn’t a better way to say it. Wonderful musicianship of the first order. Best of all, they are different.”

Bill Margeson, Irish Music Writer

Music Network is delighted to announce We Banjo 3 as awardees of Young Musicwide 2011, a unique professional development programme designed to support musicians in the early stages of their performing career. We Banjo 3 from Galway features Enda Scahill, Martin Howley and David Howley playing tenor banjos, mandolins, tenor guitars, guitars, banjolin and vocals. Playing with swing and soul, We Banjo 3 effortlessly combines the best of Irish and Bluegrass banjo music, mining the rich vein of the American Old Time tradition and thoroughly reinventing the banjo band sound. Modern rhythms, traditional melodies, virtuosic technique and innovative arrangements of music and song add up to an incredible feast of banjo and mandolin music.

Enda Scahill has been at the forefront of Irish banjo playing for some time and is highly regarded for his technical wizardry and innovative style. His debut album ‘Pick It Up’ is one of the top rated and largest selling banjo albums on the market. In 2010 he recorded ‘Green Grass Blue Grass’, a collaboration between Brock McGuire Band and Ricky Skaggs, an album which has been recognised as one of the most important collaborative recordings in many years. His album ‘Humdinger’ with Paul Brock was awarded Traditional Album of the Year by the Irish Times. In 2008 Enda published his Irish Banjo Tutor book and CD to rave reviews. He has been a member of the Brock McGuire band for over ten years. They were recently voted Instrumental Band of the Decade by Irish American News.
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www.altents.ie

South county Dublin’s foremost traditional and folk music festival, the Des Carty Sessions, presented by Alternative Entertainments Arts Group, is returning to venues around the south county this October for its 8th annual session.
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www.stephenleeson.com

Multi talented Irish Folk Singer Stephen Leeson officially launched his album “Isle of Hope” (2011) in O’Shea’s Merchant, Merchants Quay, Dublin on Tuesday September 13th at 9.30pm.
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www.sligolive.ie

NEW 3 STAGE SLIGO LIVE FESTIVAL CLUB TO BE THE HIGHLIGHT OF THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL

PRESENTS

HAYSEED DIXIE
ODDSOCKS REVIVAL
THE BARLEY MOB
& FESTIVAL ARTISTS

The 3 Stage SLIGO LIVE FESTIVAL CLUB rocking the Model is a new concept this year.  This is the Model but not as we know it!  Each night the Club will feature performances on the 3 stages.  It will have a Main Stage in the Black Box with the seats removed and bopping to each night’s headline acts followed by DJ mixes.  A second Acoustic Stage in another room will be hosted by the amazing Billy Fitzgerald and featuring a selection of Festival artists you may have missed at other venues.  The lobby will host The Session Space anchored by Glasgow’s three Friel Sisters, and friends from all over Ireland and Scotland.  All of this will centre around a pop-up bar serving beer and wine at reasonable prices.  Tickets are priced very moderately continuing the Sligo Live tradition of giving good value for money.   The FESTIVAL CLUB will be the meeting place for all Sligo Live Festival Artists at the end of each day with many artists taking to the acoustic stage to perform a few numbers.
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www.pipers.ie

A date for your diary - A worldwide celebration of the Uilleann Pipes. Uilleann piping events are planned at a host of locations around the globe.

Na Píobairí Uilleann will be holding an international day of uilleann piping activity on Saturday, October 15, 2011 to promote awareness of and interest in the playing of the instrument.
This co-ordinated day of piping activity organised by Na Píobairí Uilleann, an association of uilleann pipers with over 3,000 members worldwide, is aimed at raising awareness of this iconic Irish instrument in local communities.
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October 5th

Bert Jansch has died in London aged 67, he had been battling cancer for many years. Jansch was active until very recently, he played support to Neil Young on his Twisted Road solo acoustic tour in the US and Canada in May of 2010 and followed this by an appearance with Eric Clapton at the Crossroads festival in June 2010. Jansch will be forever associated with the group Pentangle and the singing of Jaqui McShee. With Pentangle Jansch brought a unique and hugely influential guitar style to the folk music of the British club circuit in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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