Cairde Arts Festival 2012

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Sligo BoroughCouncil

Festival Partners

Sligo BoroughCouncil

welcome to the fifth edition of the cairde arts festival We have an excellent week instore for you and we hope that you will enjoy the broad spectrum of fun cultural events onoffer. We hate to use a cliché, but we feel there really is something for everyone.

This year, The Cairde Arts Festival has come together with the Season of Yeats to offer twovery unique cultural events celebrating the legacy of the Yeats family to this area. On SundayJuly 1, The Shelly River Boat Race ties in with Jack B Yeats love of model boats – join in thefun and make a model boat for this year’s special event. The Stolen Child on July 7 welcomeseveryone to enjoy a site specific outdoor theatre promenade which takes its inspiration fromWB Yeats poem of the same title in the beautiful surrounds of Hazelwood. Look out for otherYeats inspired events throughout the summer on seasonofyeats.com.

The Cairde Arts Festival is branching out this year with events taking place in Rosses Pointand Strandhill. We are looking forward to building on this growth with the inclusion ofadditional locations throughout the county in future years.

Cairde continues to be run on a voluntary basis and we’d like to acknowledge those whowork on a year round basis to help make it work:

Barra Cassidy, Tony Conway, Zoe Dunne, Dicky Gabel, Pia Luck, Karen Masdsen, Maeve McGowan, Nikky Millar, Gillian Ni Chaiside, Amy O’Hara, Stephanie Pawula, Denise Rushe and everyone at Branching Out, The Nest.

We’d also like to thank all those who volunteer for The Shelly River Boat Race, Park Fest andduring the week of the festival – too many to mention here but we couldn’t do it withoutyou. And finally to all the people of Sligo and visitors to the area, thank you for comingalong. We look forward to seeing you during the week. Enjoy!

Cairde Festival Director Cairde Festival Co-OrdinatorTara McGowan Gráinne Dunne

Cairde is a Limited Company. Charity No CHY 18249

Welcome and Thank YouCairde gratefully acknowledges the support of the following

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STRANDHILLLodge & Suites

Accommodation Sponsors

Co. SligoVEC

McGarrigles

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Sligo TouristDevelopmentAssociation

Festival Patrons Therese O’Loughlin & Eddie Lee, John and Mary Watters, Sligo Heritage.com, Ocean Wave Lodge

Shelly River Prize Sponsors: Lough Gill Tours and North West Adventure Tours

A great number of businesses and individuals donate goods or services to our annual fundraiser for which we areextremely grateful. All auction donors are thanked and acknowledged on page 24 of this brochure.

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The Shelly River Boat Race is a fantasticoutdoor celebration of the Shelley Riverfeaturing a model boat race with a myriad of colourful street entertain-ment, music, parade and pageantryalong the river banks. This year’s eventtakes place as part of the Season ofYeats and is inspired by Jack B. Yeatslove of model boats.

There will be a prize giving immediatelyafter the race followed by a free outdoor concert featuring 21 Outs, The Katonahs and Tabby & Band.

A great evening out for all the family…

Prizes generously donated by Lough GillTours, North West Adventure Tours.

The Shelly River Boat Racefollowed by free outdoor concert

Sunday July 1 from 7.30pm


Barra Cassidy is a Dublin born, Sligobased artist. This solo exhibition is acollection of sculpture and photography.Sculptures are made of bronze, ceramic,wood and paper / mixed media. Theyrepresent a range of surreal, fictionaland non-fictional animals, including thehuman.

The subject of Barra’s photos in thisexhibition are birds in flight. Theseimages have been overlaid with photosof a derelict wall resulting in an overallcolourful and painterly aesthetic.

Venue The Yeat’s Art Gallery Hyde Bridge, Sligoruns daily until Sat July 1410am – 6pm

Adm Free

Barra Cassidy SoloExhibition

Opens Saturday June 30 at 6pm

Venue Race starts JFK ParadeAdm Race entrance fee €3 / All entertainment FreeDrop in to our Free Boat Building WorkshopsSat June 16 from 2 – 5pm at The Quayside Shopping Centre Sun June 17 from 2 – 5pm at The Model, The Mall, SligoSat June 23 from 2 – 5pm at Johnston Court Shopping Centre

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Venue Hargadons, O’Connell Street, Sligo, 6pmAdm Free

Oh My DarlingDelicious O’Grady

Monday July 2 Monday July 2 & Tuesday July 3

Venue The Factory Performance SpaceLwr Quay Street Sligo, 8pm

Adm €10 / Suitable for 12+

With a sweet name and even sweeter sound, Oh My Darling conjures up the rightmix of emotion and elation with their unique brand of country. Their prairie rootsmixed with bluegrass, Appalachian old time, southern twang, and Franco-folk,makes their style a melting pot of musical languages. Infused with dynamic vocals,brilliant claw-hammer banjo, inspired fiddling, and grooving bass, their music willget your hips swinging, toes tapping, and put your heart right into their hands.

How many potatoesdoes it take to kill anIrishman? None!

Delicious O'Grady is a tragicomedy set inthe time of the Great Irish Famine(though it wasn't that great). Inspiredby the satirical works of Flann O'Brien,this circus theatre piece tells the tale ofa family and its demise during the greathunger. It is a story of love, loss andpotatoes.

Few artists tackle this still painfulsubject. Colm O'Grady has found a wayto depict the story of his ancestors withirreverence, wit and physical skill. Hebrings to life characters who may havelived through the blight and died of it.O'Grady presents a show that istouching, hilarious and uplifting.Caution: Contains nudity and potatoes.

‘Circus, comedy and the Irish Famine, itmight sound like a bizarre combinationbut believe me it really works!’Roise Goan, Dublin Fringe Festival Director



What happens when two Mediter-raneans are stuck in a country where itrains so much? Well… they create theirown Mediterranean!

Fish Tale is the story of a youngMediterranean boy and his world: theSea. The sounds, melodies and rhythmsof his people. The celebration of asimple and down-to-earth life… Butmost of all, it is the simple story of ajourney for Freedom.

The Cool Mules evoke the tales of their

childhood, adding each ingredient withjoy and excitement to create a STEW thatis traditional yet modern, nostalgic yetfoot tapping, local yet universal.Bring the Whole Family along!!!

Languages Used: English, mixed withwords in Catalan, Spanish, French andItalian.



Tom Portman Guitar and Dobro

Tuesday July 3 at 7pm

The Cool Mules‘A Fish Tale’

Tuesday July 3 & Wednesday July 4

Venue Osta, Garavogue WeirOff Stephen Street, Sligo

Adm Free

Multi-instrumentalist, performer, composer and songwriter Tom Portman playsacoustic & electric guitar, dobro & lap steel. His compositions draw on many globalstyles yet have a distinct flavour of their own. January 2011 saw the launch of Tom’s2nd solo album, ‘At One’ with a sell out show in Galway's Town Hall Theatre.

This self produced collection features instrumental compositions, songs andarrangements of traditional Irish tunes for fingerstyle guitar and Dobro. Tom hasperformed solo at the Suwalki Blues Festival in Poland, around Ireland with theBahh Band (thebahhband.com) and at the Clonakilty Guitar Festival with the JukeBox Gypsy's and John Smith.

Venues Tues July 3 at 2pm, Strandhill Celtic Club, Old Airport RdTues July 3 at 7pm, Sligo Yacht Club, Rosses Point Wed July 4 at 12pm and 3pm, Chapters Café, Bridge Street

Adm €5 / A Family of four €15

‘Fascinating… he is absolutelycaptivating.’ — Galway Bay FM



Venue The Swagman, Wine Street, SligoAdm Free

Born out of wedlock, this group plays anedgy mix of folk/country-rock infusedwith dark poetic lyricism and an abilityto rock-out!!

Hailing from the West, this four-piecebrings an emotive energy to the stage.Their unique sound demarcates the territory which is Layne County.

Layne County are Mart Dyar Guitars and Vocals Darragh Golden Guitars and Vocals James Conry Drums and VocalsJohn Keaveney Bass



Sketches of Mexico features an exhibition of Peter Crann's recent work and a livemusic performance by classical guitarist Morgan Szymanski.

Multi-award winning virtuoso Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanskidescribed as ‘a player destined for future glories’ (Classical GuitarMagazine), over the last year Morgan Szymanski was selected as ‘oneto watch’ by Gramophone Magazine and the BBC Music Magazine,was featured artist on the cover of Classical Guitar Magazine and wasa finalist in the ‘2008 Outstanding Young Artist Award’ (MIDEMClassique/IAMA).

Peter Crann After leaving art college in Sligo in 1993, Peter made his way to Spainwhere, through a series of fortuitous events became a leading painter of religiousiconography in Spain. He has painted over 150 paintings that are hung permanentlyin churches and private collections throughout Southern Spain. Since his return toIreland in 1998, Peter became increasingly involved with music, and it features inall his recent paintings.

Venue The Factory Performance Space, Lwr Quay Street, Sligo7pm Peter Crann Exhibition Opens8pm Morgan Szymanski Music Performance

Adm €10

Sketches of MexicoPeter Crann & Morgan Szymanski

Wednesday July 4

Layne CountyWednesday July 4 at 10pm



Boutique FantastiqueFeaturing Veda

Thursday July 5 at 9pm


Papagena‘The House’

Thursday July 5 at 12 & 7pm Friday July 6 at 12 & 3pm

Venue The Model, Education Room, The Mall, SligoAdm €8 / Family of four ticket €24

Venue 5th On Teeling, Teeling St SligoAdm €10

The Grizzly DippersThursday July 5 at 10pm

Venue Furey's, Bridge Street, Sligo Adm Free

From Sweden, Papagena Theatrecompany introduce us to the delights ofa mysterious old doll house. Come andhave a look and meet the host ofcolourful characters who reside within.You will meet the Italian tenorrehearsing his scales on the balcony. Heis madly but unhappily in love with hisneighbour, the French lady. In thekitchen the African mother cooks dinner,on the ground floor an American manre-opens a florist which has been shutfor a long time and strange things startto happen.

The performance is in English, FrenchItalian and Swedish yet language is nota barrier. This performance has beenenjoyed in Sweden, Croatia, Italy andFinland.

Performance duration 40 minutesStay afterwards to meet and animatethe puppets.

This performance has been kindly funded by theInternational Fund for Ireland.

An up and coming blues and country trio featuring Mark Conway onHarmonica/Vocals, Tom Eaton on Guitar/Banjo/Vocals and Harry Mercer onGuitar/Vocals playing a mix of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Old Crow Medicine Showalongside their own original tunes.

Hide your daughters, lock up your sonsand and whatever you do don't tellgranny! On Thursday the 5th of July,Boutique Fantastique, will bring theglitter and glamour of Ireland's mosttalented, drag artistes to Sligo town.

Hosted by Veda, Queen of Ireland andher entourage of feisty follies Slick O,Paddy Fagan and Claudia Shifter.


Thursday July 5Boutique FantastiqueFeaturing Veda8pm, 5th on Teeling, Teeling St, Sligo€10

Thursday July 5The Grizzly Dippers10pm, Furey’s, Bridge St, SligoFree

Thursday July 5Niwel Tsumbu and The Heartbeat10pm, The Strand, Strandhill,Co. Sligo. €10

Friday July 6Papagena, The House12 & 3pm, The Model, The Mall, Sligo€8 / Family of four €24

Friday July 6Jimmy Gralton’s Dance Hall8pm, Presbyterian Hall, Church St., Sligo. €5

Friday July 6Moxie10pm, Furey’s, Bridge St, Sligo. Free

Friday July 6The Lace Followed by DJ Ben Ó Faoláin 10pm, McGarriglesO’Connell Street, Sligo. €10

Saturday July 7The Frivolous Fare12 to 6pmColeman’s, Stephen St.Car ParkFree

Saturday July 7The Stolen Child 2 & 4pm, Hazelwood, Bus from TouristOffice, Temple Street, Sligo€8 / Family of Four €24Price includes transport

Saturday July 7Yungchen LhamoIn concert with Liam O’Maonlai8pm, The Hawk’s Well, Temple St, Sligo€20/€18

Saturday July 7Madu followed by DJ Barra10pm, McGarriglesO’Connell Street, Sligo. €10

Sunday July 8Park Fest12 to 7pm, The Peace Park, Sligo. Free

Sunday July 8It’s a Wrap Cairde end of Festival Party11pm, 5th on Teeling, Teeling St, SligoFree

Saturday June 30Barra CassidyVisual Art Exhibition by Barra Cassidy6pm, The Yeats Art GalleryHyde Bridge SligoFree (Runs until Sat July 14)

Sunday July 1 The Shelly River Boat Race7.30pm, JFK Parade, Sligo€3 Race Entrance. Events Free9.30pm Free Concert, featuring 21 Outs, The Katonahsand Tabby & band

Monday July 2Oh My Darling6pm, Hargadons,O’Connell Street, SligoFree

Monday & Tuesday July 2 & 3Delicious O’Grady8pm, The Factory Performance SpaceLwr Quay Street, Sligo€10

Tuesday July 3The Cool Mules, A Fish Tale2pm Strandhill Celtic Club,Old Airport Rd Sligo7pm Sligo Yacht Club, Rosses Point €5 / Family of four €15

Tuesday July 3Tom Portman, Guitar and Dobro7pm, Osta, Off Stephens St, SligoFree

Wednesday July 4The Cool Mules, A Fish Tale12pm & 3pm, Chapters Café, Bridge St, Sligo€5 / Family of four €15

Wednesday July 4Sketches of Mexico 7pm Peter Crann Exhibition Opens8pm Morgan Szymanski The Factory Performance SpaceLwr Quay Street, Sligo. €10

Wednesday July 4Layne County10pm, The Swagman, Wine Street, Sligo. Free

Thursday July 5 Papagena, The House12 & 7pm, The Model, The Mall, Sligo€8 / Family of four €24

Thursday July 5, Open until Sept 1Invited Artists Barrie Cooke, David Crone,Bernadette Kiely and Paul Mosse6pm, The Hamilton Gallery, Grattan Street Sigo. Free

Cairde Arts Festival 2012 Events at a Glance

For booking www.cairdefestival.comor telephone 071 916 1518

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Niwel’s elegant and fluent guitarplaying draws from AFRICAN RHYTHMS,RUMBA, JAZZ, CLASSICAL, FLAMENCO andmore. Playing electric & acoustic guitarsNiwel sings mostly in his native'Lingala' and French. He composes andplays a range of music that stretchesfrom contemporary versions ofCongolese traditional music from the1930s & 40s to modern jazz.

The Heartbeat are:Peter Erdei bassDarragh O' Kelly keyboardsDiego Joaquin Ramirez drums Eamonn Cagney percussion

Venue The Strand, Strandhill, Co. SligoAdm €10

Niwel Tsumbu and The Heartbeat

“an unmissable listening experience…while his voice reeks of the heat and dust of central Africa, Tsumbu's guitar-playing is a thing of joy” Hot Press

Thursday July 5 at 10pm


Jimmy Gralton’s Dance Hall

Friday July 6 at 8pm

Venue The Presbyterian Hall, Church St, SligoAdm €5

Jimmy Gralton’s Dancehall is a celebration through art, theatre, music and dance ofthe vision and spirit of Leitrim’s Jimmy Gralton. The show is produced by Benboproductions and created by a range of artists including musicians Seamie O’Dowd,Rossa Ó Snodaigh, Dee Armstrong, Seanan Brennan, Jaimie Carswell, Margo Barrow,Ciarán Wilde and Tony Travers, visual artists Jackie McKenna and Édaín O’Donnell,theatre artists Sorcha Fox, Des Braiden and Donal O’Kelly, as well as a hot group ofswing dancers. Jimmy Gralton’s Dancehall is a metaphor for what Ireland might be,a place where people are welcome to dance in a spirit of communal solidarity.

A vibrant new band playing an exciting mix of traditional based compositions withrichly developed layers of fantastic harmony. The band includes virtuoso guitar andbanjo player Cillian Doheny, JPTrio members Ted Kelly (banjo, tenor guitar, vocals),Jos Kelly (button accordion, keyboard, vocals), Paddy Hazleton (percussion, vocals),Naimh Farrell (main vocals) and Limerick accordion and melodeon powerhouseDarren Roche.

MoxieFriday July 6 at 10pm

Venue Fureys, Bridge StreetAdm Free

Jimmy Gralton’s Dancehall is supported by peace andjustice organisation Afri


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Venue McGarrigles, O’Connell Street, SligoAdm €10

The LaceFollowed by DJ Ben

The Frivolous FareFriday July 6 at 10pm Saturday July 7 from 12 to 6 pm

Venue Coleman’s, Stephen St.Car Park, SligoAdm Free

Any performance by The Lace means itstime to party! Playing a cocktail of wellknown songs from The Democratic Re-public of Congo plus their own composi-tions, their concerts will usually startwith some gently swaying traditionalCongolese Rumba made popular by leg-endary bands like Luambo Franco's TPOKJazz & Orchestre Matimilla, the signa-ture sound of Kinshasa in the late 70s.Once the audience have warmed up, theband will turn the heat up further andafter a few gear changes The Lace are inoverdrive, playing the latest KinoisSoukous dance music, with fast, inter-weaving rhythmic guitars and somesublime solos they will take the audi-ence with them, without fail, for a trueCongolese Soukous dance workout.

Followed by Ben Ó Faoláin- Resident DJand promoter of Galway’s weekly one-stop shop for worldwide beats, bass &boogie, Club 0a2. Ben’s visit to Sligo willsee him focus on the music of theworld’s hot places – a Tropical dance-floor trip through the irrepressible ener-gies of ‘50s Columbian big band jazz,heavy Afro-funk ‘n’ disco, sun-bakedbatucada, Trinidadian calypso and soca,punchy cumbia, skanking Jamaican ska

‘n’ rocksteady, swingin’ boogaloo and atwist of contemporary Tropical bassstyles!

Purveyors of finery and frippery!An eclectic market of fancy and frivolous fare,vintage and new bazaar, arts and crafts andbeautiful bits ‘n’ bobs. The Frivolous Farewill also feature live music by Oliver Alcorn,Wayne O’Connor and Brian Kelly, guest DJ’s,face painting and more!

A market with groovy laid back music andsome mad cap fun thrown in for goodmeasure right in the centre of Sligo Town.




Yungchen Lhamowith Liam Ó’MaonlaíCairde is proud to present a rare musical and spiritualtreat bringing together two inspirational musicians

Saturday July 7 at 8pm

Venue The Hawk’s Well, Temple Street, SligoAdm €20 / €18



Venue Hazelwood, Co. SligoAdm €8 / Family of four €24 / Price includes transport

The Stolen ChildDirected by Fiona McGeown

Saturday July 7 at 2 and 4pm

After fleeing Tibet on foot in 1989,Yungchen Lhamo has emerged as theleading Tibetan vocalist on the worldstage. Since the release of her award-winning first album Tibetan Prayer, hermusic has met with critical praiseworldwide, alternately described as

“beautifully evocative," “mesmerizing,"“spine-tingling," and “transcendent."

From the quays of Sydney, Australia tothe spotlight of Carnegie Hall, her acappella performances have enchantedaudiences in more than 70 countries.Her songs take listeners on an emotivejourney across plateaus and soaringover vistas, with a charge and acharisma no doubt informed by herremarkable life story.

Liam Ó’Maonlaí needs little introduction.Renowned for the formation of one ofIreland’s most successful bands, TheHot House flowers back in 1985; Liam isa multi-instrumentalist who has goneon to perform solo and in a wide varietyof musical collaborations. Fromtravelling to the renowned desertfestival in Mali with Uillean Piper PaddyKeenan to performing with ToumaniDiabete, Donal Dineen, RonanO’Snodaigh, and many more; Liambelieves in the incredible power whichmusic has to connect people.

A site specific promenade styleperformance which will take place inHazelwood and is aimed at families andchildren of all ages. Inspired by Yeats'poem, The Stolen Child, this event willengage with Yeats’ ideas surroundingmysticism and Celtic myth and willinvolve the use of mask and live music.The event starts in the bus

Buses will leave from outside TheTourist Office on Temple Street, Sligo at2pm and 4pm on Saturday July 7th.Spaces are limited so booking isessential.

This year’s Park Fest music line up introduces two new musicians from the SoundingBoard Project Milo Cummins and Brain Candon and features The Candles, SharonConway and Ruby Ridge, Moxie, Jack and Jones and as a grand finale the 30 pieceMaracatu percussion band and dancers, Ilya Brillo. Our circus performance comescourtesy of the amazing Fanzini Brothers. Gather round, gather round to witness thejaw-dropping antics of these devilishly handsome Italian Kerrymen. They presentfantastic comedy and pure fun in their spoof danger, comedy circus show,Deathwish. Do not miss these heroes of the Irish circus scene.

Bring your own playlist hosted by DJ Ray Fallon. Boogie to your own favourite tunes,just bring them along on i-pod, usb or cd and Ray will line them up!

This key Dublin-based band fronted byIrish/Malaysian brother and sister team– dub and beats controller Salim andvocalist Aminah – play an infectiouscombination of sounds which steeraway from typical dub soul or reggaesounds to create a psychedelic rootsmusic imbued with mystery andnostalgia. Their music is a combinationof influences driven by bass heavyrhythms, vibrant melody and consciouslyrics. The horn section provided by Boband Zoltan crown the sound with lushharmonies and plenty of energetic solos.

Songs written individually or as acollaborative process by the musicdriven siblings brings diversity to theirthought provoking tunes. Salim’s yearsas an experienced producer with hisstrong affinity for reggae music and skills as an electronic composer are thebasis on which he builds the uniqueMadu sound. His productions intertwinewith Aminah’s soulful melodies, herexperience over the years singing jazz,blues, folk and roots music, combine tocreate a dynamic sound. Think KingTubby meets Billie Holiday.



Park FestA day long celebration of music, performance,food, arts and crafts in Sligo’s Peace Park! Thosewho know Park Fest know that this is one of thehighlights of the Cairde Arts Festival

Sunday July 8 from 12 to 7pm



MaduFollowed by DJ Barra

Saturday July 7 at 10pm

Venue McGarrigles, O’Connell Street, SligoAdm €10

Venue The Peace Park, SligoAdm Free

It’s a wrapCairde end of Festival Party

Sunday July 8 from 11pmVenue 5th On Teeling StreetAdm Free

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