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!

The Cork Pipers Club Christmas session is taking place tomorrow night (Thursday December 11th) in The Outpost bar on Curraheen Road in Bishopstown.  This is to mark the final classes of the term so bring along your pipes.  Other musicians are more than welcome so that we don’t have a plethora of pipers!

We hope to get things kicked off shortly after 9pm when the second class finishes.

The Cork Pipers Club are once again playing at this year’s Cork Folk Festival which is starting today and running until Sunday 5th October.  The pipers concert is on in the Spailpin Fanach on South Main Street at 4pm on Saturday.  This year we have Stephen Scales, Diarmuid Grainger and Dan O’Callaghan so there will be a feast of piping on display.  Admission is €8 on the door and we hope to see you there.