Vacant buildings, empty shops, underused spaces and premises can be re-purposed and rea-imagined for civic use under a new Creative Ireland Kerry project called Re-imagining Kerry’s Vacant Sites. The project links artists to underused and vacant sites allowing the artists to reimagine the space and how it might be used in the future or offer…
Night one of the Island Sessions featured singers songwriters, Jeffrey Martin and Mick Flannery, both of whom mesmerised the crowd with fantastic performances. By: Kate McSweeney Browne’s Bar proved itself to be an ideal venue for this sort of gig with great acoustics and a real intimate feel where the connection between the audience and…
The Mike Kenny Remembrance Weekend Committee wish to announce that their weekend will go ahead albeit with a reduced line up of events. “Unfortunately, the committee was unsuccessful in securing support from the Kerry County Council Community Support Fund and Kerry County Council Creative Communities Awards Scheme and therefore we cannot run the Children’s Art…
It has served many a purpose in the long history of the house, but Browne’s back bar and its ambience was the perfect setting for the inaugural ‘Island Sessions’ on Sunday night. Organised by Kate and The Mad Ones, the night went down very well with the intimate audience. Many of the attendance clung to…
The festivities around World Fiddle Day got off to a flying and sunny start in Scart on Friday evening, night and Saturday morning. The gathering of musicians, poets, politicians and the curious basked in the beautiful and welcome balmy summer evening and only reluctantly went indoors soon after the appointed off time came and went.…
Like Peter Browne’s association with Patrick O’Keeffe in the Sliabh Luachra scheme of things, Terry Moylan will always be linked with Johnny O’Leary. O’Keeffe and O’Leary, both hugely influential, Sliabh Luachra music exponents and guardians were brought out of themselves by Browne and Moylan respectively. Would we have the knowledge and respect we have for…
Creating an Archive of the Culture of Sliabh Luachra. Isn’t that some task. However, and thankfully, a lot of what has gone on in the history of music making, poetry writing and the singing of songs has been well documented. The Handed Down committee has been gifted with some rare gems of recordings, scraps of…
Cork native and resident, Matt Cranitch has agreed to accept the 2017 award for dedication to the music of Sliabh Luachra at this month’s Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival. The festival will get underway on the coming Friday night, October 27th at 9pm. The special, 25th anniversary award is going to the fiddle player and…
The late Con Houlihan was celebrated, remembered and his most quoted quips chosen and encased in glass plaques at 14 points around Castle Island. All was revealed at the Con Houlihan Remembrance Day on Saturday. A beautiful, autumnal day allowed the full programme of events to go ahead unfettered and visitors came from all quarters…
It was last weekend in 2011 that Castleisland artist / sculptor, Mike Kenny passed away in Kerry General Hospital and at 9:30pm on the Friday night of August 12th. His memory is alive and well and his legacy to his native town is surviving and thriving. At the re-unveiling of his painting The Shoemaker in…
