A series of more than 120 live outdoor performances will take place across Cork county throughout August and September. Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Gillian Coughlan has just officially launched ‘Cork Co Co Pops’, an expansive programme of events provided by Cork County Council to support performers and […]
Music
Les SalAmandas, a new singing song-writing act in the Irish music scene, Julie O’Sullivan (Ballydehob, West Cork) and Colyne Laverriere (Hostun, France), have just released their very first single ‘Now is The Time’, on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Youtube. Julie and Colyne met in late 2018 in Ballydehob, West Cork. Les SalAmandas […]
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival will run its virtual incarnation ‘Bantry and Beyond’ this year from Friday, May 28 to Sunday, July 25. As the Festival musicians could not come to Bantry, the Festival has gone to the musicians. Festival-goers will become virtual travellers to destinations around Europe and USA. They […]
Kildare artist Enda Gallery (FKA delush) has unveiled a haunting new video that was filmed at the former Mercy Heights Secondary School in Skibbereen. The inaugural release is a music video for the single ‘Guess We Got A Problem’ originally found on his debut album ‘The Journey to Zero’. Producer/Production […]
Released in February, the AA-side ‘Luciferin / Ridgewood’ is the first digital single from Kʒːlu – the solo project of West Cork-based musician and composer Patrick Hatchett – ahead of the self-titled album ‘Kʒːlu’ which follows on March 26, on vinyl and digital. In Hatchett’s words, this solo work “brings […]
Over 2000 people were hired, 405 live shows hosted, and 416,000 audience members engaged, thanks to the pilot live performance support scheme, launched in December 2020, by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media and Minister Catherine Martin. The scheme provided an incredibly progressive and timely financial […]