October & November events at the Sirius Arts Centre

Sirius Arts Centre

Upcoming Music events.

 Thursday 21 October 8pm

Sirius Unplugged

A stage for emerging new talent

 Featuring Lynda Cullen and Band

With Knights of the Afternoon

Tickets €5 (doors 7:45)

Thursday 7 October 8pm (doors 7:45)

A fundraiser for Sirius Arts Centre with

NORTH CREGG

Tickets €15. All proceeds to benefit Sirius Arts Centre

Friday 15 October 8pm (doors 7:45)

An evening with

ELEANOR MCEVOY

Tickets €18

Friday 29 October 8pm (doors 7:45)

An evening with

DARRAGH MCGANN

Tickets €10

Thursday 4 November 8pm (doors 7:45)

Sean Tyrrell

“Message of Peace”

Tickets €10

Friday 12 November 8:00PM (doors 7:45)

KIERAN GOSS

Tickets €22.50

Friday 26 November 8:00pm (doors 7:45)

PRESTON REED

Tickets €15

To book tickets contact Sirius at 021 481 3790 or via email at cobharts@iol.ie

The Cobh Blues Festival - 24th - 26th September

The Cobh Blues Festival Programme 

This is the line up for a great weekend's entertainment in Cobh!

Friday 24^th September 2010

VENUE

Ryans:                        5.00 – 7.00pm             Aaron Curtis

9.30pm                        Catriona Fallon & Band

Rob-Roy:                    9.30pm                        Doctor Dec & Side Effects

Mauritania:                9.30pm                        Shangri La

Tarrants Bar: 9.30pm                        The Alamo Bandits

Kellys Bar:                 9.30pm                        The Ben Poole Band

Bellavista Hotel:        11.00pm - Late            Karl & Sean Long

The Crow’s Nest:       To Be Confirmed

Saturday 25^th September 2010

Family Day in the Promenade                      2.00 p.m.  - 5.30pm    

·        There will be face painters, a balloon Artist and bouncing castles

·        Live music on Bandstand by Cobh Blues Club and Local Young Talent.

Mauritania:                5.00pm – 7.00pm                     Paul Hannon

                                    9.30pm                                    The Blues Lane

Ryans Bar:                 6.00pm – 8.00pm                     Alessio

                                    9.30pm                                    The Alamo Bandits

Well House:               9.30pm                                    Cold Shot

Rob- Roy:                   9.30pm                                    The Ben Poole Band

Tarrants:                    9.30pm                                    The Vipers

Kellys:                                    9.30pm                                    Catriona Fallon & Band

Commodore Hotel:   

Jack Doyle Room      11.00pm – Late                        The Swinging Blue Cats

The Quays Bar:         9.30pm                                    The Famous Blue Rainbow

Bellavista Hotel:        11.00pm – Late                        The Blues Corner

                                                                                    (Yossi Valdimir & Gary Baas)

Sunday 26^th September 2010

Ryans Bar:                 2.00pm                        Aaron Curtis

                                    8.30pm                        Cobh Blues Club with Guest Aaron Curtis

Quays Bar:                 2.30pm                        Martin Evans

Mauritania:                4.00pm                        The Blues Lane

                                    8.00pm                        Paddy & John

Well House:                  5.00pm                        The Totalers

Kelly’s:             5.00pm – 7.00pm         Ziggy

                                    9.00pm                        Dirty Secret

Commodore Hotel:

O’Shea’s Bar             9.00pm                        Catriona Fallon & Band

Rob – Roy:                 9.00pm                        Cold Shot

Tarrants:                    9.00pm                        Nuts & Bolts

                  

New tour schedule for Spike Island this September.

The  schedule of guided walking tours to Spike Island Tours has been changed for September:

Tours depart from Kennedy Pier in Cobh on Saturday's and Sunday's  at 1pm and 3 pm (subject to numbers) Tickets are sold at the Ticket Boothon the pier.

From Monday 13th September, weekday tours to Spike island will operate for group bookings only. Group inquiries +353 87 276 7218 or +353 21 4811485

Visit the Spike Island Blog here

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East Cork Early Music Festival

The East Cork Early Music Festival will be presenting various concerts in Cobh and Fota House between 18th and 19th September.
18th Sept. Susanne Heinrich at Fota House
19th Sept. East Cork Early Music Festival Day in Cobh: 
Events take place at Christ Church, Rushbrooke, St. Benedict's Priory Bible Garden and St. Colman's Cathedral
For Full details visit the Early Music web site here

Sirius Arts Centre Cobh County Cork presents Slipway to the Galaxies

New Works by Swiss Artist/Performer

Charlotte Hug

Exhibition runs until Sunday 3 October

Gallery hours:

Wednesday – Friday 11AM- 5pm/Saturday and Sunday 2pm – 5pm/Mon& Tues Closed.

Slipway to the Galaxies audio-visual, Son-icons and sound installation is inspired by the Cork Dockyard in Rushbrooke which captivated Charlotte Hug during her residencies in Ireland which have been ongoing since 2005 with organisations such as ArtTrail and Sirius Arts Centre. Sound and the body interacting with external space, is what drives Swiss artist, Charlotte Hug to create installations and perform concerts of music and sound.  Working with a combination of viola and voice, she creates a third kind of sound quality.  Through a retuning and re-stringing of the viola, Hug brings physicality to the sounds she creates.

Charlotte is known for her solo performances in distinctive locations such as the ice tunnels of the Rhône glacier, the half demolished bunker in Berlin Humboldthain, the House of

Detention - a 250 year old former prison in Farringdon in London, the hot healing sulphur springs beneath the former luxury hotel of Verenahof in Baden, Switzerland and the dockyard in Cobh on the Irish Atlantic coast.

Hug seeks to develop instrumental techniques to their fullest possible extent, which includes the “soft bow technique”, by means of which she can play up to eight voices on her instrument. She plays a viola made by J.G. Thir in 1763. She also specializes in combining the sounds of viola and voice. What has resulted is an unmistakable and distinct tonal language.

Charlotte Hug is member of the "London Improvisers Orchestra", and founded the “Stellari String Quartet”, a string quartet with the leading British exponents of free improvisation Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos and John Edwards. She has collaborated with composers of the ICST: Institute for Computer music and Sound Technology, Martin Neukom, José López Montes, the photographer and film maker Alberto Venzago, the actor André Jung and the theatre and opera director Jossi Wieler. She collaborates with performers such as Joan Jeanrenaud, Maggie Nicols, Barry Guy, Phil Minton, Larry Ochs,

Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp.

Special thanks to John Brennan and from the Cork Dockyard George Smith and Joe Forde, Art Trail for the artist residency in 2005 and Sirius in 2008, Pro Helvetica and Stadt Zurich Kulture for their financial support

Whats up in Cobh this weekend

Cork Harbour Open day on Saturday, 4th September Check it out here
Titanic Trail walking tours - daily
5th September - Tour of the Old Church Cemetary. Check it out here
Guided walking tours of Spike Island - daily at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.Visit Blog here