EntertainingSligo
ALBUM FUNDING APPEAL
Sligo band ‘Above and Below the Tide’ have launched a Fundit campaign to help fund their album ‘Deeper Blue’ which is almost finished. Rewards include CD’s, Posters, Pottery Class and live gigs in any venue/house nationwide.
‘Above and Below the Tide’ have been playing together since 2014. They play original compositions blending a wide variety of influences which have inspired their musical journey. Planxty, Horslips, Moving Hearts, Ennio Morricone, Arvo Part, Penguin Café Orchestra, Led Zepplin and Slayer to name but a few.
The album touches on these musical themes with a mixture of songs and instrumental music.
Band member David McLoughlin said: “We are attempting to produce our own unique sound with a nod to our musical influences. We have been writing, playing and developing these pieces which form a part of our live concerts over the past four years. Composition, innovation and musicianship are at the core of what we do.”
David has been in many bands over the years and plays a wide variety of styles and writes much of the material.
Ray Coen is a member of ‘No Crows’, ‘Craic Addicts’ and has a solo album to his name and has written much of the material also. Anna Houston is also a member of ‘No Crows’ ‘Sligo Baroque Orchestra’ and is a backbone of music in Sligo.
Collette Sheerin has several solo albums and fronts her band ‘ The Candles’. Bernard Tohill was a member of ‘Big Self ’ and presently plays with ‘ The Blowins’ and ‘Blackwater jack’.
“We appreciate any help meeting some of the costs of recording, mixing, artwork and duplication and help in bringing it over the line,” said David.
TRADROQUE
On Thursday the 12 th of April, the Hawk’s Well Theatre presents Tradroque – a juxtaposition of Irish traditional and baroque music traditions featuring Sligo Baroque Orchestra and an ensemble of traditional musicians including Michael Rooney on harp, Liam Kelly on flute, Leonard Barry on pipes, John Joe Kelly on bodhrán and Seamie O’Dowd on guitar.
This specially commissioned collaborative concert explores the musical links between Europe and Ireland over the last few centuries. Sligo Baroque Orchestra is markedly inclusive, involving professional musicians as well as amateur and student instrumentalists all from very different musical backgrounds. The selection of traditional musicians who will join them are all highly accomplished in their individual fields and together this assembly promise a freewheeling, pulse-quickening, constantly surprising fusion of Irish and Baroque sounds with over twenty musicians on stage.
Music on the night will include; Vivaldi: L’Estro Armonico, Opus 3 - Concerto 6 featuring Nicola Cleary, Heinichen Seibel 238 concerto for flute and oboe featuring Lorraine Howley and John Flanagan and movements from Vivaldi RV 421 and Fasch - Concerto FaWV L:F4 mixed with traditional tunes and compositions from Michael Rooney played by the full ensemble. An epic example of descriptive music composition originally written by Edward Keating Hyland called The Foxchase will also feature, in which the uilleann pipes portray the story of a typical late-eighteenth century foxhunt by imitating the barks of hounds, the trumpets of the hunters and the howls of the fox.
Marie O’Byrne, director of the Hawk’s Well and a member of the Sligo Baroque Orchestra says “I am so looking forward to The Foxchase in particular. In 1995 as a classical violin student I was asked to lead a small chamber orchestra to accompany uilleann piper Liam O’Flynn in a festival performance in Flagmount in Co. Clare. That night, I literally fell in love with Irish music through Liam’s playing and The Foxchase, in particular, was a highlight on that night. The trad and orchestral version we will play on April 12 th was arranged by Shaun Davey for Liam O’Flynn and will be dedicated to the memory of the master piper.”
Homage will also be paid in the concert to the great musician and songwriter Thom Moore who also passed away last week in a specially orchestrated version of Believe Me Sligo also featuring the full ensemble. A very special concert awaits.
Tickets are €15 with a special Go See rate of €7.50 for under 18s. All tickets will have a €1 development fee surcharge and are available from the Hawk’s Well Theatre box office on 071-91/61518 or book online at www.hawkswell.com
BENBULBEN CARNIVAL
The Benbulben Carnival takes place on June 2nd and 3rd in Stephen Street Car Park.
It will be a weekend of music and dance, a parade and lots of street parties.
The proceeds of this Event will be donated to four well known Sligo charities that rely solely on local funding. They are as follows:
MS North West Therapy Centre North West Hospice
The Alzheimer Society Friends of Sligo University Hospital