CorkSalon
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Theme: Cork Loves Music

This event occurred on
September 13, 2016
7:30pm - 10:00pm IST
(UTC +1hr)
Cork, Cork
Ireland

TEDxCorkSalon presents *Cork Loves Music*, the second salon in the six part series. This Salon is spread across two sessions of live talks and diverse performances.
Date:13th & 14th September 2016 at Coughlan’s
Doors: 7:30pm

The objective of #CorkLovesMusic is to understand Cork's strong relationship with music while exploring the different layers of its connection.
Kindly note entry is free. {Suggested donation : €4}
CORK LOVES MUSIC: SESSION 1 - 13th SEPTEMBER
Talk 1 : Enabling music as a platform by Southern Hospitality Board
Talk 2 : Running of a small cult venue in rural Ireland by Sam McNicholl.
Talk 3: Ray O'Brien, independe record store owner
Performance : Sitar recital by Dr Dara O'Brien
Performance : Éamonn Cagney, percussionist, composer, performer and educator.
Performance : Arthuritis
Performance: M.SEA, freak folk/blues

CORK LOVES MUSIC: SESSION 2 - 14th SEPTEMBER
Talk 1 : Music as a Universal Language by Stevie G
Talk 2 : Music is Healing by Kevin Draper
Talk 3: What motivates Cork music-makers? by Dr Eileen Hogan
Talk 4: IRISH JACK tells us how it all happened to him.
Live Performance & Talk : Multiculturalism and the impact it has on music by Young Phantom
Performance : Rory O'Brien
Performance: Cork Singers Club
Performance: Roslyn Steer
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Coughlan's Live
7 Douglas st
Cork, Cork, 1234
Ireland
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ARTHURITIS

ARTHURITIS is from the fifth moon of the planet Lukon 5. He writes songs about his experiences on and off Earth.

Cork Singers Club

Established in 1993, the Cork Singers Club has been instrumental in helping to bring around a renewed interest in the art of singing traditional Irish songs. The basic idea is that people come together to celebrate the fine art of solo singing and to ensure that the great traditional songs are passed down from generation to generation and not lost in the mists of time.

Sacred Harp Singers of Cork

Sacred Harp Singers of Cork are a community choir who perform four-part a cappella music which dates from the 16th through the 20th centuries. It is characterised by haunting harmonies, traditional modes, raucous songs, serene hymns, fast fugues, and high-energy anthems. The notation is written in shapes that correspond to degrees of the scale, making it easy to sight-sing. This tradition is democratic and egalitarian. We glory in the powerful and joyful experience of singing our hearts out together. Shape note music is designed to be extremely easy to pick up - even for those with no prior musical background.

Stevie G

tevie G is a DJ from Cork City in Ireland. He has been DJ-ing regularly all over the country and beyond for 20 years now and is known for helping expose a lot of people to hip-hop, soul, r&b and jazz. His long term residencies in such nightclubs as Sir Henrys, the Savoy, The Kitchen, RiRa, the Pavilion and the Pod were very popular, and he still spins weekly in all over Ireland and appears regularly at many Irish music festivals. He runs Soul Jamz records with Ian Ring and they also produce music together as aboveDat. Stevie also runs Jam, Footsteps and Vinyl love and he has two weekly shows on Corks RedFM.

Aisling and Caoilian - Southern Hospitality Board

Aisling O'Riordan and Caoilian Sherlock met way back in college when neither knew a lot but thought they knew it all. They both worked at The Pavilion in various roles until the venue closed down in 2014. Wanting to continue the positive vibes in the city of Cork the two founded Southern Hospitality Board, a promotion company for gigs, dancing and great nights.

Dr Dara O'Brien

Dr Dara O’Brien studied sitar in Varanasi, New Delhi and Kolkata and his principal teachers are Pandit Kushal Das and Sougata Roy Chowdhury. He completed a PhD in music in UCC, where he teaches Indian music. His eclectic experience as a composer and performer includes improvisation, experimental sound, film, and in particular the field of contemporary dance. He also works as a music therapist in the area of autism.

Éamonn Cagney

Éamonn Cagney is an Irish percussionist, composer, performer and educator. He has established himself as one of Ireland’s premiere musicians and as well as collaborating with many artists, ensembles, choreographers, composers and performers he also leads his own groups Treelan and RITHIM. He has performed worldwide over the last 20 years and his deep experience of world, jazz, Irish traditional, improvised and contemporary music inform his many projects and collaborations, including his acclaimed 2011 album “Convergence” and his latest album with Treelan “Enchantment”.

Eileen Hogan

Dr. Eileen Hogan is a lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies, UCC, and recently completed her PhD about the Cork music scene with the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool. As part of her research, Eileen interviewed 53 local music-makers – including musicians, venue owners, promoters, DJs, and journalists – to explore what motivates them invest so much time, money, and effort into their music-making activities.

Irish Jack

Irish Jack, 60s dresser, grew up in London. Met The Who at 19, they were 17. Just started work. Later when success came they wrote songs about him. He tells how it happened.

Kevin Draper

Kevin is a Music Therapist and in this talk he describes the use of music in healing.

Mary Claire Wooley (M. SEA)

Mary Claire Wooley (M. SEA) is a blues/freak folk solo artist, she has been living in Cork on an off for eight years. She started writing seriously after a bad injury which left her extremely restricted physically and living with chronic pain. She always found something in music to help her. As a challenge she decided to do one gig four years ago with no expectations to do more, since then she has been gigging and writing and released her first EP, Blue, in April 2016.

Ray O'Brien

Ray runs a local record shop in Cork and passionately narrates its contribution to the community and the joy of buying physical music.

Rory Francis O'Brien

Rory is “ a veteran of independent Irish music that continues to forge his own path, in his own time.” His command of silence and space to weave stark and personal songs could be best described as a fusion of traditional folk textures with contemporary melancholy.

Roslyn Steer

Roslyn Steer is a Cork based musician involved with many musical projects including Morning Veils and Crevice. Her songwriting project produces engaging live performances of haunting material that pushes at the boundaries of folk music.

Sam McNicholl

Sam McNicholl, caretaker at Connolly's of Leap is a part time musician, full time magician. A descendant of good time loving, raucous party throwing, West Cork stock.

Young Phantom (Mark Muvambu)

Young Phantom is the alter-ego of Cork-based hip-hop artist and spoken-word poet Mark Mavambu.

Organizing team

Joanna
Dukkipati

Cork, Ireland
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