Culture Night in Leinster
Culture Night takes place for the seventh time in Ireland on Friday, 21 September, with events all across the island. See here for more a general overview of the event, which attracted over 300,000 people last year. Over the next few days we’ll be making some selections of the music events that catch our attention. We’re taking the events province by province, with Dublin securing an honorary provincial title due to the number of event taking place in the capital. Here we present our selection of events taking place in Leinster (minus Dublin).
Carlow
Café Formenti, 20 Dublin Street, Carlow; 9.30pm Brothers Brían and Diarmuid McGlynn will perform a combination of bluegrass and folk. According to the organisers, the venue will be ‘transformed into a prohibition speakeasy, with staff and customers alike clad in vintage costumes sampling their specially curated 1920s menu’.
Kildare
Leixlip Community Library, Captain’s Hill, Leixlip; all day The Platform4 Audio and Visual Digital Media Studio is hosting free recording sessions. In each hour-long slot, participants will be invited to record one of their original songs and work with a professional sound engineer. Booking is essential.
Kilkenny
St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny; 7pm The Art of Music traces the links between music and painting and combines live painting from Guillermo Carrion with improvised music by Donal Dineen and uilleann piper Maitiú Ó Casaide. ‘The scene is black ‘till the sound strikes up and sets the ink rolling and the twilight reeling,’ says Dineen.
Laois
Clonaslee Heritage Centre, Clonaslee; 7pm The centre hosts a traditional music performance as well as poetry readings, storytelling and a talk on the history of Clonalee and its surrounding areas.
Meath
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan; from 6.30pm The Solstice’s art galleries will be staying open late, with performances by the Meath Harp Ensemble and the Meath Youth Musical Society and a talk by the photographer Mike Bunn.
Offaly
Tullamore Library, Tullamore; 6.30pm An event titled ‘Music Across Cultures’ features the Polish guitar and trumpet duo Jack and Crztof as well as the Irish-Lithuanian singer Kotryna Kozlozskyte and Tullamore singer-songwriter Mark Cunningham.
Wicklow
Tramway Theatre, St Mary’s National School, Blessington; 8.30pm Phil Callery (of the Voice Squad) will be launching his new CD, Landscape of the Past as part of an evening said to focus on emigration and the Irish diaspora. Performances will also feature the Lakeside Band with Colm O’Hara, the BMDS Drama Group, Declan Naughton and Just Dandy.
Published on 20 September 2012