Each one of the Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festivals since its inception in 1993 has been different in one way or another. They’ve all been colourful in their own way and that colour has been added in big bold splashes by the musicians, singers, dancers and by those who come to hear and see them.…
A great night’s entertainment and a good crowd carried the night in Scartaglen Heritage Centre on Saturday as Matt Cranitch expertly conducted the ‘Picture Paints a Thousand Words’ programme in the ever delightful, always surprising Handed Down series. “Now as the evenings get brighter and spirits lift we are getting ready for this month’s Handed…
A reminder that the latest installment of the Handed Down series of concerts and lectures at the Sliabh Luachra Heritage Centre in Scartaglen will be held tonight from 8pm sharp. Tonight’s programme will celebrate the connection between the culture and traditions of Sliabh Luachra and Cork City. Taking the form of a lecture by the…
The advertised Culture Night connected, Scartaglen launch of the 2022/23 series of Handed Down concerts and lectures on Friday night has been cancelled due to a set of unforeseen circumstances. Because of this, organiser, PJ Teahan was unable to present the advertised programme of events on this Friday night and he was forced to cancel…
Culture Night, September 23rd, will see fiddle player and Sliabh Luachra academic, Matt Cranitch, launch the return of the award winning Handed Down series in the Heritage Centre, Scartaglen. The Handed Down committee is looking forward, with excitement and anticipation, to this season which sees the return of: Nickie McAuliffe, Pádraig MacMathúna, Matt Cranitch, Aoife…
Dennis Botzer is a well known musician in the Maryland / Washington DC area of the USA. From the late seventies he has played fiddle, piano, guitar and sang in groups like the Boiling Spuds, Mitchelstown and the Hedgerows to name a few and is a regular at great sessions in that neck of the…
Abbeyfeale native Maura O’Connor recorded music for her new EP, It’s Handed Down in mid January in Newmarket, on the North Cork side of the famed Sliabh Luachra area. “This the second EP released under the Sliabh Luachra record label which was recorded, mixed and mastered by the wonderful Eoin Stan O’Sullivan,” said Maura as…
The town of Castleisland and its chequered commercial history is about to take another lurch in the chain-store direction with the opening, on this Tuesday morning, of Dealz Castleisland. Setting up its local empire in the shadows and within the old walls of the establishment in 1226 by the town’s most infamous invader, Geoffrey de…
A Pre-Christmas, Handed Down online special is coming to a device near you on Saturday, December 12th. The special will be presented by Sliabh Luachra musician in residence, Eoin Stan O’Sullivan. The event will centre around the handing on of the Dan O’Connell Memorial Award to the 2020 recipient. The award is presented to a…
November 1st has fallen on a Sunday on innumerable times over the years and certainly on a couple of occasions recently enough. So what? The consequences of this harmless occurrence for Castleisland is that the town’s annual horse fair moves to the Monday 2nd when November 1st lands on a Sunday. This occasional coincidence of…
