The club AGM will take place on Thursday 21st January immediately following the first class of the term. This will take place in the SMA Hall in Wilton at 9pm for at most half an hour. Following the AGM, we will head over to the Viscount Bar for a session.
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Last week we had our second session at the Viscount out in Bishopstown. It has a nice friendly atmosphere and following on from the first session it looks like we found a new home for our sessions. We’re only there on the last Thursday of the month so if you’re looking for a venue for your own session in Cork this would be a good place to start.
Lots of photos below:
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 
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I recorded the gig so expect to see some mp3s posted here in the coming days.
See the photos from the show below…
This 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.
The Cork Pipers Club had our Christmas session in the Outpost earlier on in December. It was a fitting end to the classes this year and the Outpost came up trumps with a fine plate of sandwiches. We hope to have sessions on a more regular basis so watch this space for more information on the next one.
The next term of classes will begin in Wilton SMA Hall on January 15h with enrolment taking place the week before in the SMA Hall on January 7th. More info will be posted here closer to the date.
Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas and Happy New Year!