| Event | Monthly Session |
| When |
Thursday, October 29, 2009
9:30pm
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18+
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| Where |
The Viscount Bar (map)
Bishopstown
Cork Once a month session. |
| Other Info | This is the first of the monthly sessions which will be held on the last Thursday of each month. As The Viscount turned out to be such a suitable venue the last time around, we'll be back there again. Hope to see you all there! |
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Monthly Session – Thu Oct 29 – The Viscount Bar
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Cork Folk Festival Gig Photos
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Another year down, another pipers’ concert at the Spailpin for the Cork Folk Festival. But what a concert we had this year! Some familiar faces graced the stage including Dan O’Callaghan, Diarmaid Moynihan with a welcome return from Tomás O Canainn who, for me, was the highlight of the show with his piping, singing, stories, jokes and poetry! This year also saw Kevin Moore make an accomplished stage debut, the first of many appearances in the coming years here I’m sure. The variety of musicians and instruments is what made this year’s concert all the more special for me. We had uilleann pipes, Galician pipes (gaita), pan pipes, war pipes, flutes, low whistles, and guitars. In particular Anxo Lorenzo who you can see above with the Moynihans blew us away with the sweet sound of his Galician pipes. Finally, it was great to meet the wonderful piper Jimmy Morrison who kicked off the show with some fine sets. Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of him myself but I’m sure we’ll get a few in from our official photographer on the day (ahem John 
).
I recorded the gig so expect to see some mp3s posted here in the coming days.
See the photos from the show below…
First session at The Viscount
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
We had the first session of the term in The Viscount bar in Bishopstown a few weeks ago. It turned out to be a great night as always and the new venue worked out well. We should be back there at the end of the month so keep an eye out on the upcoming events on the sidebar or add your name to the mailing list at the top right of the page to get all the latest news straight to your inbox. We hope to have a session on the last Thursday of every month but check back here for confirmation. Anyway back to the session, the picture above shows Fearghal, Kevin and John (Mitchell). John (Murphy) had the pipes …
… and low whistle on hand.
Alex brought along his Galician pipes which certainly made an impression on everybody in the bar! There’s a great big sound from these but unfortunately Alex is moving away from Cork soon so the next session will be the last one we see him at for a while.
See you at the next session!
Monthly Session – Thu Oct 8 – The Viscount Bar
Thursday, October 8th, 2009| Event | Monthly Session |
| When |
Thursday, October 8, 2009
9:30pm
-
18+
|
| Where |
The Viscount Bar (map)
Bishopstown
Cork Once a month session. |
| Other Info | Monthly session in the Viscount. |
Pipers at the Cork Folk Festival
Friday, October 2nd, 2009This weekend sees a belated return of the Cork Folk Festival. This year’s festival is being held about a month later so it brings to two the number of great festivals Cork has in October.
Cork Pipers’ Club concert is on tomorrow (October 3rd) upstairs in the Spailpin at 4pm. There are a whole host of pipers playing there so it promises to be a fine feast of piping. The full line-up is Jimmy Morrison, John Byrne, Diarmuid Granger, Donal Ó Caoimh, Kevin Moore, Dan O’Callaghan, Donncha and Diarmuid Moynihan, and Cork’s gentleman piper Tomás Ó Canainn.
Tonight also sees the launch of an album by the aforementioned Cork piper Diarmuid Moynihan with his brother Donncha on guitar also in the Spailpin. I look forward to getting my hands on ‘The Lights of Ranzico’ and will report back here on it. Galician piper Anxo Lorenzo will also be in attendance and I hear a bunch of Celta de Vigo supporters will be present as Anxo is from a town nearby.
The Cork Folk Festival weekend promises to be a great trad weekend in Cork. It’s just a pity we don’t have it more often than once a year! There are plenty of sessions on in the pubs around Cork so keep an ear open for them.
Update: The night was a great success and we will be posting some video and mp3s from the evening in the coming week. If you were there and you have some photos or video, we would appreciate if you could send them (or their links) onto us here by email to donal @ corkpipersclub.com.