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 ...

The Blizzards at Indie-Pendence in Mitchelstown

Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Ireland, Live Music, Music, Photography, corkgigs | No Comments »

The Blizzards headlined the recent(ish) Indie-Pendence Festival in Mitchelstown on the last night of the festival.  This festival just gets better each year, well done to Shane Dunne and all involved with putting a free festival together with such great ...

Cathy Davey at Indie-Pendence in Mitchelstown

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in Ireland, Live Music, Music, Photography, corkgigs | 1 Comment »

Cathy Davey headlined the Saturday night at the recent Mitchelstown Music Festival. I've been a big fan of Cathy Davey for quite some time but never made it in to see her during her residency in Cyprus Avenue last ...