Singers on song for Culture Night
FOLLOWING a very successful 2019 Arts Festival, Mallow Arts Collective are now finalising arrangements for a number of events to be held on Culture Night, Friday, September 20.
Events will kick off with an Afternoon of Music, Poetry and Song which will be held in Mallow Library at 3pm and following that there will be a number of events in the newly opened West End Arts Studio, which will get under way at 6pm. A highlight of the evening here will be the very humorous Robert Gogan show ‘Strolling Through Ulysses, which will begin at 8pm.
This is an amusing run through some of the characters and incidents from Joyce’s masterpiece and aimed at all those who have not yet managed to read the book.
Art and cinema presentations will also feature on the night and details of these will be confirmed shortly.
On Monday night last 30 singers were present in O’Keeffe’s Bar to take part in a draw which determined their appearance in ‘Every Song has a Name, Every Name has a Song’. The singers include Kevin Horgan, Con Collins, Michael O’Donovan, John McDonnell, Gerry O’Callaghan, Gerard O’Callaghan, Hugh Healy, Tony Buckley, Jonathan O;Sullivan, Benjie Hallihan, Tadhg Curtis, Mecca Barrett, Noel O’Connor, Liliana Inch, Johnny Bongos Horgan, Ann Luddy, and many more.
The singers then proceeded to randomly draw a well known Christian name. They now have 11 days to find and learn off a song featuring that name before they return to perform it on Culture Night.
All of these events are free of charge and the Arts Collective are hoping that they will all be well supported and bring a bit of a buzz to the town on Culture Night.