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The Craft Corner – Cheeky Frog

WCP Staff March, 2026

This month Natalie Webb is showing us how to make a frog with a blow out tongue “This cheeky frog is always poking out his tongue!” Materials: • Green card • Black and white paper or card • A straw • Red tissue paper • Sticky tape • Glue • […]

Legendary jazz in Skibbereen

Moze Jacobs January, 2026

John Philip Murray at Crane Lane. Rhythm is everywhere (if we pay attention). The wind, waves, birdsong, car traffic, a crackling fire, speech. It’s the backbone of popular music. That must be why drummers are the best-known members of any band. But is that really true? “No,” says John Philip […]

A kaleidoscopic musical force

Moze Jacobs December, 2025

Moze Jacobs chats to Maria Doyle Kennedy (MDK) ahead of her gig at Levis’ Corner House in Ballydehob. MDK plays Levis’ on Saturday, November 13, 8pm, not with a group of musicians, but with her husband Kieran, who is almost a band in himself. He plays (steel) guitar, piano, banjo, […]

Sweet spot

Moze Jacobs November, 2025

Voice is one of our strongest ‘weapons’ when it comes to expressing emotion – something that is not without risk and can make us feel vulnerable or upset people. Except in music, where it is the link that connects audiences and performers. Some singers are able to precisely reflect feelings […]

More of the magic

James Waller November, 2025

As the Samhain banners unfurl, and as winter approaches, thoughts of painting crunch with the leaves and unseen snow. One becomes thoughtful before the fire, burrows inwards, carves out an imaginative hinterland where the cold and the rain cannot enter. Paintings and prints hover as marvellous worlds upon the walls; […]

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