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Swingin’ Blue Cats at the Firkin Crane

Donal — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:53:47 +0000

The Swingin’ Blue Cats played a blinder on the Sunday night of the Cork Jazz Festival at the Firkin Crane. They provided fantastic upbeat music for the Shanghai Palace Nights swing dance event organised by Elaine & co at Swing Dance Cork. I’m a bit of a fan of swing-dancing, having started classes earlier on this year after years of going to Doubletime and seeing The Roaring Forties and not having a clue how to dance properly. If you want to try it yourself, Elaine is starting another course of classes from next Monday upstairs in the Liquid Lounge. All details are on her website, Swing Dance Cork.

See more photos in the full set on Flickr.

Jazz and Swing in Cork

Donal — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:35:05 +0000

Jazz has a special place in Cork with the world-renowned Jazz festival happening every October bank holiday weekend. A lot of Cork people leave the city as the crowds throng in for world-class jazz but there’s plenty of jazz events and gigs going on in Cork for the rest of the year. Of course, the fabulous Roaring Forties are regulars on the gig scene and Gary Baus recently celebrated his fifth year of Doubletime with a change in venue to the classy Pavilion.

With all these events going on, we finally got along to a set of classes earlier on this year. Elaine, aka Suzie Q of Suzie Q Revue in the Crane Lane, runs regular classes and I recently helped put a site together for her at Swing Dance Cork dot com. She has a lot of classes coming up over the coming months but you will want to book early as I’m sure they’ll sell out. 10 week classes start at the end of the September but she also has quite a few drop in classes and pre-Doubletime classes. I can’t recommend these classes highly enough. I seriously dislike dancing, and anybody who has had the misfortune to see me dance will know why, but swing dancing is different. At almost every Doubletime you will now see people doing the Charleston or Lindy Turns or plenty of other moves. Cork is really starting to swing!

Printing a Photo on Canvas

Donal — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:09:05 +0000

Last year I got two photos of mine printed on canvas by Keith at Funk’d Online. I was very happy with the end product of both canvases and after moving house during the summer one of the canvases finally has a new home on the wall of the dining room. I’m not sure if there is still time to get an order in for Christmas but I have no problem recommending Funk’d Online.

The original photo is below, I had to add some extra space on top to cater for the size although I prefer how it came out on the canvas.

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Swingin’ Blue Cats at the Firkin Crane

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