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HERE’S OUR TOP TEN THINGS TO DO IN CORK THIS WEEK
FERMOY MUSICAL SOCIETY TAKING TO THE CATWALK AT CORRIN
THE Fermoy Musical Society will hold a Fashion Show and Cabaret at the Corrin Events Centre tonight (Thursday).
The event, which will be compered by Clair Cullinane, will incorporate local business stands and a wine reception sponsored by Carry Out.
It will feature the latest catwalk fashions courtesy of local outlets including Hickey’s, Carma Boutique, Joe Murphy’s Suzsa Boutique and Shaw’s Fashions.
Tickets for the extravaganza, priced at €15, are available from committee members and many of the above shops.
Proceeds from the will be used to offset the cost of the society’s latest production, ‘Hot Mikado’, which will run at the Fermoy Community Youth Centre from November 5.
RTE CONTEMPO QUARTET PAY HOMAGE TO BARTÓK
THE RTÉ Contempo Quartet will launch the Bartók Project, a series of 25 concerts in six different venues over the next six months, at the Triskel Christchurch Arts Centre on Saturday night.
The series, which will include six monthly recitals at the Triskel, will gives audiences the rare opportunity to hear Bartók’s six quartets in sequence.
The concerts will also feature performances of the Haydn OP.76 quartets (nos. 1-6), with a contemporary Irish composition completing each programme. These will include the premières of four works by Sebastian Adams, Linda Buckley, David Coonan and Séan Clancy.
To book tickets for Saturday’s recital and to find out more about the Bartók Project visit www.triskelartscentre.ie.
SKA SOUNDS WITH THE SERVICE AT THE GALLERY IN MALLOW
THE hugely popular Ska six-piece band The Service will play a free gig on Saturday night from 10pm at the Gallery Bar and Restaurant in Mallow. The band has been playing Ska, Reggae, 2-Tone and Rocksteady to appreciative audiences since 1994, packing out venues across the country with their easy sound and enigmatic stage presence.
Their two-hour set pays homage to some of the great Ska and Reggae legends covering songs by Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals, The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat and Madness.
A live performance by The Service is guaranteed to get people’s feet stomping, head’s bopping and pulses racing and a great night is assured.
RE - WRITING THE BARD AT THE WHITE HORSE IN BALLINCOLLIG
CRITICALLY acclaimed Ovens-born actress Irene Kelleher will be back on home turf tonight (Thursday) playing the lead in the one-woman comedy ‘Mrs Shakespeare at the White Horse in Ballincollig.
The play opens with William Shakespeare reincarnated in the present day as a woman (Irene Kelleher) who, understandably, is having a tough job trying to convince people she is the great Bard.
Confined to a mental asylum Mrs Shakespeare comes to the conclusion that she had made a complete mess of writing ‘Hamlet’ 400-years earlier.
Armed with a quill Mrs Shakespeare embarks on an epic rewrite of the famous text, against the will of her psychiatrist and the cast of rebellious original characters who contrive to send her mad.
Tickets for the play, which starts at 9pm, at the door priced €20.
MARTIN HANLEY SET TO LAY DOWN THE BLUES AT COUGHLANS LIVE
BRITISH acoustic roots guitarist, singer and songwriter Martin Hanley will play ‘Coughlan’s live’ on Douglas Street next Wednesday night at 9pm.
A supremely talented musician, Harley Harley is a devotee of the music that came out of the Missippi Delta, the slide guitar and many other forms of roots music.
He is rapidly becoming a well-known figure in the US, headlining Music City Roots in Nashville and playing support to ZZ Ward, Delta Ray, Iron and Wine, Bruce Hornsby and World Party among others.
His Coughlan’s gig will feature tracks from his back catalogue as well as numbers from his recelcyly release album ‘Live at Southern Ground’. Tickets from www.coughlans.ie priced at €10.
TOMMY BRINGING PADDY TO THE HUDSON-TAYLOR AT BALLYMALOE
IRISH folk duo Hudson-Taylor will take to the stage of the Ballymaloe Grainstore on Saturday night.
Brothers Alfie and Harry have come a long way from their days of busking on the streets of the capital as teenagers in 2011 to releasing their debut album ‘Singing for Strangers’ last year.
Along the way their acoustic, folky sound and close vocal harmonies, often compared to Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan, have earned them a large fan base and seen them become regular festival favorites.
The siblings also bring a love of contemporary pop to their music, giving it a more modern feel, with their clever, mature and sometimes dark lyrics helping to set them aside from the pack.
Tickets for Saturday’s gig from www.eventbrite.ie priced at €25.14.
FEAST OF FOLK ON LEESIDE
THE 37th annual Cork Folk Festival will kick off on today (Thursday), with a plethora of gigs taking place at various venues across the city.
As in previous years organisers have gone to great lengths to put together an eclectic and exciting festival programme, featuring gigs by well-know Irish and international artists.
Among the highlights will be an evening in the company of Mick Flannery at the Cork Opera House, The Henry Girls at the Kino, Roy Harper ‘Live at St Luke’s’, Steve Tilston at Cyprus Avenue and We Banjo 3 at the Oliver Plunkett.
For a full line up of gigs and details of other festival events over the weekend visit www.corkfolkfestival.com.
FRED ’N ALICE BACK AT THE PALACE
The CallBack Theatre’s award-winning play ‘Fred and Alice’ will make a welcome return to Cork from Next Monday for a five-night run at the Everyman Palace Theatre.
Described as a “joyous celebration of individuality”, the play is a quirky love story tracing the story of Fred and Alice who meet in a home and eventually fall in love.
From their days in care, to independent living couple negotiate the perils and pitfalls of life and love, creating a fantastical world which spills over into a madcap reality when they decide to move in together. Tickets from the Everyman Palace box office on 021 450 1673 priced at €18/€16.
INEC IN KILLARNEY
THE glorious drama/musical ‘Paddy’, starring the inimitable Tommy Fleming, will take to the stage of the INEC in Killarney on Saturday night.
The work of Fleming, Tommy Marren and Gerry Carney, the two-hour show tells they story of Paddy (Tommy Fleming) who emigrates from Mayo during the 1960s in search of fame and fortune. He leaves behind a heart-broken mother and his childhood sweetheart with a promise to return home once his fortune is made.
Like thousands of Irish men before him Patrick struggles to come to terms with the bright lights of London city and the various twists and turns of the life of an emigrant are exposed in all its forms.
Tickets from the INEC box office on 064 667 1555 priced at €33.20.
FLASH HARRY READY TO ROCK YOU
QUEEN tribute band Flash Harry have been packing out venues for more than two-decades and on Friday night they bring their extravagant live show to the stage of the Cork Opera House for a night of rocking melodies, instantly recognisable guitar riffs and pure unadulterated showmanship.
Tickets from the Opera House box office on 021 427 0022 priced at €26.