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.