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.