Ian Whitty at Indiependence

Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Posted in Cyprus Avenue, Ireland, Live Music, Music, Photography, corkgigs | 2 Comments »

Ian Whitty was on the Cyprus Avenue stage at the Indiependence Festival in Mitchelstown last weekend.  We had just arrived at the mudfest where the festival was located this year when we heard Ian playing so we ambled over to ...

Aaron Dillon – Cold Day in May

Sunday, July 5th, 2009 Posted in Ireland, Music, youtube | No Comments »

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ewiOlFVSM Taken from Brown Envelope, the debut album by Aaron Dillon released last year.  I've seen Aaron play a few times and I put his site together which is where I just found this vid. Album available for download on iTunes at ...

Paddy Keenan at De Barra’s

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 Posted in Ireland, Irish trad music, Live Music, Music, Photography, corkgigs | No Comments »

Uber-piper Paddy Keenan played in de Barra's in Clonakilty Thursday week ago accompanied on stage by guitarist Tommy O'Sullivan.  The pair have an album, The Long Grazing Acre, from which they took quite of a bit of material for the ...

Mick Flannery at Cork Opera House 2008

Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Ireland, Live Music, Music, Photography, corkgigs | No Comments »

Mick Flannery played his annual Christmas gig in the Opera House to a packed house back in Decemeber.  Mick has come on in leaps and bounds this year with the release of White Lies and regular airplay on the national ...

Grand Pocket Orchestra at The Pavilion

Saturday, February 7th, 2009 Posted in Ireland, Live Music, Music, Pavilion, Photography, corkgigs | No Comments »

Grand Pocket Orchestra played a couple of weeks ago in The Pavilion in Cork as part of the weekly Bootleg series.  I was looking forward to seeing this band and I must say I was surprised at how young this ...