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HERE’S OUR TOP TEN THINGS TO DO IN CORK THIS WEEK
JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE ACT SET TO WALK THE LINE AT OPERA HOUSE
FANS of the late Johnny Cash will not want to miss a tribute show taking place at the Cork Opera House on Friday night.
Aptly called ‘ The Man In Black’, the show, which features Terry Lee Goffee, and his band, has been praised by members of the Cash family for its uncannily accurate portrayal of the man and his music.
It captures the very essence of Johnny Cash’s energy and charisma, with Goffee’s looks and voice an evocative reminder of Johnny Cash’s enigmatic character and stage presence.
Featuring 34 classic songs, the show effortlessly flits between all periods of the great man’s unforgettable career.
Tickets from the Opera House box office on 021 427 0022 priced at €29. JOYCE’S ‘THE DEAD’ GIVEN A NEW LEASE OF LIFE AT THE EVERYMAN FOLLOWING a sold out run in Dublin’s Project Arts Centre the acclaimed chamber opera adaptation of James Joyce’s ‘ The Dead’ will visit the Everyman Palace Theatre next Monday night.
Featuring four singers accompanied by a string quartet, it conjures up all of the humour and heartbreak of a family gathering on a snowy night in Dublin.
Together composer Ellen Cranitch and playwright Tom Swift have created a vivid musical retelling of arguably one of Joyce’s most memorable masterpieces.
Tickets for the one-off Cork performance from the Every,am Palace box office on 021 450 1673 priced at €28/24/15. CORCADORCA CELEBRATE 25 YEARS WITH NEW ENDA WALSH PLAY THE eagerly anticipated run of the Corcadorca Company’s production of multi-award winning playwright Enda Walsh’s ‘ The Same’ will get underway on Friday night.
The site-specific play, which was specially commissioned to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary, will run for two-weeks at the decommissioned Cork Prison premises on Rathmore Road.
The two-woman show, directed by Pat Kiernan sees sisters Catherine and Eileen Walsh cast alongside each other as two women who meet for the first time and how they gradually realise their connection to one another.
Tickets for ‘ The Same’ from www.triskelartscentre.ie priced at €24.50/22/20. MARTIN SIMPSON TO DELIVER A MASTERCLASS IN BALLINCOLLIG FANS of acoustic guitar music are in for a special treat in the form of the legendary Martin Simpson who will play a solo gig at the White horse in Ballincollig tonight (Thursday).
More than four decades after recording his debut album ‘Golden Vanity’ Simpson, who is listed on Gibson Guitars list of Top 30 acoustic guitarists of all time, remains a hugely influential figure.
Equally at home playing English traditional folk, American folk and blues and his own compositions, he is consistently named as one of the very finest finger-style guitar players in the world.
Tickets for the gig from www.eventbrite.ie priced at €16.55. SCOOBY SNACKS AT THE READY AS ‘THOSE PESKY KIDS’ VISITS THE INEC KIDDIES favourite Scooby Doo and those ‘pesky kids’ of the Mystery Inc will be in Killarney this weekend for a musical mystery stage show at the INEC.
Featuring all of the characters from the much loved TV programme, the show sees the gang once again take to the Mystery Machine to tackle another perplexing mystery.
This time they are chasing a troublemaking ghost haunting a local theatre and, bolstered by a feed of ‘Scooby Snacks’, our eponymous hero and the gang once again crack the clues and solve the mystery.
Featuring a host of instantly recognisable tunes, this is a show that the kids, and many of the adults too, will love.
Tickets for the morning and afternoon shows on Saturday and Sunday from the INEC box office on 064 667 1555. AFRO/IRISH ‘ARTSOUL’ WITH LOAH AT COBH’S SIRIUS ARTS CENTRE THE distinctive tones of singer/songwriter Sally Matu Garnett (aka Loah) will fill the intimate space of Cobh’s Sirius Arts Centre on Friday night.
The musician of Sierra Leonian/Irish origin, grew up exposed to an unusual mix of Maynooth and West Africa and while at Trinity College collaborated with the Like of Little Green Cars, Kila, Niwel Tsumbu and the Trinity Orchestra’s early endeavours.
Combining her engaging mix of folk and soul, which she has christened ‘ArtSoul’, Loah has forged an ambitious solo career releasing two singles and playing at festivals across Ireland.
This is a welcome opportunity for music fans to catch a singer who has been widely tipped as ‘one to watch’ for the future up close and personal.
Tickets from the venue on 021 481 3790 priced at €15. MARK EITZEL TO SHOWCASE NEW ALBUM AT CYPRUS AVENUE GIG VETERAN US singer/songwriter and former American Music Club front-man Mark Eitzel will showcase tracks from his new album when he plays Cork’s Cyprus Avenue on Saturday night.
A hauntingly evocative singer, Eitzel has earned even greater notoriety for his brilliance as a composer combining the intensity of Ian Curtis, the beauty of Nick Drake and the melodrama of Jacques Brel to produce a darkly poetic body of music.
His tenth album, and his first in three years, ‘Hey Mr Ferryman’ continues in the same vein, with a collection of tracks that weave a rich tapestry about music, love, life and death in Las Vegas.
Tickets for the gig from www.eventbrite.ie priced at €20. TAKE A RUMMAGE AROUND CLAUDIA’S ATTIC AT DE BARRAS AUSTRIAN fiddle player and singer Claudia Schwab will play tracks from her soon to be released second solo album ‘Attic Mornings’ at De Barras Fold Club in Clonakilty next Thursday night.
Based in Ireland Swarb is renowned for her contemporary fusion of Irish, Austrian and Indian folk music and has been described by Dr Mel Mercier of the Irish World Academy as “one of the most creative artists on the Irish music scene today.”
An accomplished solo performer, Schwab also works with a range of internationally renowned artists.
Current projects include collaborations with Austrian stringtrio Netnakisum, German Jazz legend Matthias Schriefl, ‘Kate in the Kettle Quintet’ with Scottish fiddle-singer Kate Young and the Cork Gamelan Ensemble.
Tickets from 023 883 3381. LIFE, LOVE AND ADELE PLAYED OUT ON THE CORK ARTS THEATRE STAGE THE Cork Arts Theatre will host two performances of the critically acclaimed play ‘Adele Is Younger Than Us’ next Monday and Tuesday evening.
Written and performed by Sally O’Leary and Rhiannon Neads, the play is the culmination of years of optimistic frustration, wedged into and hour of musical stand-up.
Watch as the pair emerge from the cocoon of a long and painful adolescence only to realise they are not actually Adele-like butterflies. To add further insult to injury it also dawns on them that the multi-award winning singer is actually younger than them.
Tickets from the venue on 021 450 5624 priced at €12.50. FINAL CURTAIN TO COME DOWN ON BLACKWATER FIT-UP FESTIVAL THE second annual Blackwater Valley ‘Fit-Up’ Theatre Festival will draw to a close over the coming days with performances at venues across North Cork.
The final week of the 2017 festival will feature performances of Eoin Colfer’s ‘My Real Life’, a touching and darkly humorous play in which Don Wycherley gives a stunning performance as a man with advanced MS who decides to take his own life.
It will run be staged tonight (Thursday) at the Community Hall in Dromtariff, on Friday at St Mary’s School in Mallow, on Saturday at the Schoolyard Theatre in Charleville and on Sunday at The Palace Theatre in Fermoy.
For more information visit www.fituptheatrefestival.com.