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For further information and bookings:
cleclub@gmail.com
Phone 01 4066517
Peter Browne
Peter Browne was born in Dublin in 1953 and commenced playing traditional music at the age of 6. He received tuition in the playing of the uilleann pipes from three of the great players of modern times; Séamus Ennis, Leo Rowsome and Willie Clancy and on reaching his 'teens was already acknowledged as a leading player of that instrument. In his youth he attended many of the major traditional music events of the time with his family and frequently visited Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, home of Willie Clancy and Lisheen, Gneeveguilla, Co Kerry staying in the home of Denis Murphy the famous Sliabh Luachra fiddle player who was a family friend.
In the early 1970's he played with the group 1691 which was a forerunner of The Bothy Band and later spent two periods playing on both pipes and flute with The Bothy Band who were much celebrated for their skilled and energetic approach to the playing of traditional Irish music.
He has played music in many countries in Europe and in North America at concerts, lectures and recitals and made two groundbreaking albums of music and song in the 1980's together with Philip King on the Gael-Linn label - Rince Gréagach and Seacht Nóiméad Déag chun a Seacht. These discs were combined and reissued in 2001 as Seacht Nóiméad Déag chun a Seacht on Gael-Linn CEFCD 097.
He has played as a session musician on recordings by such people as Paul Brady, Maura O' Connell, Mary Black, Mick Hanley, The Dubliners, Scullion and Cór Chúil Aodha and has also been part of various ventures in modern experimental music and has played the works of Bill Whelan, Michael Holahan, Roger Doyle and Paddy Meegan. He has featured as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra and with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on their 1998 tour of North America and in the series Music in the Classroom. He was the soloist with the Ulster Orchestra in a performance in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on St Patrick’s Day 2001 of The Brendan Voyage by Shaun Davey and has played the same work with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland. He performed on the Millennium stage in 2000 in the Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C and his performance can be viewed on the Kennedy Centre website. He frequently attends gatherings of uilleann pipers and summer schools as guest teacher, lecturer and performer. In May 2003, he was a guest musician with the Chieftains in two memorial concerts for harper Derek Bell, held in Dublin and Belfast.
He has twice been the winner of the Oireachtas uilleann-piping competition (The Breandán Breathnach Trophy in 1994 and 1998) and has also won the prize for slow-air playing in both those years.
He works in RTÉ Radio One with a special interest in traditional music. His most recent projects have included researching, presenting and producing series of documentary programmes on the lives and music of famous traditional players such as Séamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Pádraig O' Keeffe, Denis Murphy, Elizabeth Crotty and the 19th century traditional music collector Canon James Goodman.
He has also produced a series of commercial CD's for RTÉ which feature rare recordings of traditional music from the RTÉ Sound Archives, the latest of which are The Return from Fingal which features old recordings of the piper Séamus Ennis made over a 40 year period along with extensive biographical and musical notes, Elizabeth Crotty - Concertina Music from West Clare, a compilation of rare recordings by a famous musician from the West of Ireland and Labhrás Ó Cadhla, Amhráin ó Shliabh gCua, a collection of songs by a famous Waterford sean-nós singer.
He also teaches uilleann pipes, flute and tin-whistle at the DIT Conservatory of Music and drama.
Sibéal Davitt
SIBÉAL DAVITT is from Ranelagh, Dublin, where she grew up in an Irish speaking household with Gaeltacht connections to Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, Co. Mayo, in the west of Ireland. She comes from a musical background and has been sean-nós dancing and playing traditional Irish music from an early age. Her unique style of sean-nós dancing, which is heavily influenced by the Connemara sean-nós style, reflects her own passion for innovation and spontaneity as a form of expression through dance.
She is a popular performer and teacher of sean-nós dancing at venues and festivals throughout Ireland and abroad.
2009 was a particularly busy and creative year for Sibéal having won the All-Ireland Glas Vegas talent competition on TG4, a prize which took her on a trip to the capital of entertainment, Las Vegas, where she performed as part of her winning prize.
This year is equally busy for Sibéal. She recently made her debut on TG4’s Glas Vegas 2010 show as a talent judge and mentor among the panel of judges. She has just returned from a very successful ‘Echoes of Erin 2010’ tour of Britain, a show which showcased the best of Irish talent and which visited over a dozen venues throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
Sibéal has performed on numerous RTÉ, TG4 and Raidió na Gaeltachta shows including the ‘The Late Late Show’. A recent ‘Mooney’ radio show with presenter Aonghus McAnally featured a live sean-nós dance performance with Sibéal that had distinct echoes of Din Joe’s ‘Take the Floor’ from another era. Other recent television performances and venues include TG4’s ‘Steip’, ‘Imeall’ and the ‘Electric Picnic 2009’ show; Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, Scotland, Yn Chruinnaght in the Isle of Man, Willie Clancy Festival in Miltown Malbay as well as Cork Opera House, Wexford Opera House, Armagh Theatre & Arts Centre and the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Sibéal has a keen interest in all dance genres. She studied ballet at the Doreen Feely School of Dance, Dublin, and contemporary with Coiscéim Creative Steps Dance Theatre Company, where she’s a current member. She developed her interest in contemporary, jazz and traditional forms of dance through workshops and stage performances. She won first prize in Ireland in the creative dance section of Scléip 2007 sponsored by Foras na Gaeilge and came second in the sean-nós dancing section at the Oireachtas arts festival later that year.
She conducts dance workshops for adults and young people and is currently teaching sean-nós dancing at The Cobblestone, Dublin and at Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s headquarters, An Chultúrlann, Monkstown, Dublin.
Sibéal is a student at Trinity College, Dublin, studying film media and the Irish language.
Email: sibeal.davitt@gmail.com Tel. 086 156 9833
See Sibéal’s winning performance on Glas Vegas competition with accordion player, Cormac Ó Murchú, on the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbvCp-aScBY&feature=related
Johnny Morrissey
Dance master Johnny Morrisey, who is also a well-known concertina player, is one of the featured instructors on the DVD, Irish Set Dancing Made Easy.
He dates his interest in the dance form – which is said to have descended from the French quadrille – to his childhood in Tipperary, where he learned the steps first by watching his parents, relatives and neighbours stepping it out.
He has taught many calsses in the Dublin area in recent years, and has a long association with the Cumann Merriman Summer School, where he teaches classes and organises the nightly ceilí.
Gerry O’Connor
A founding member of Skylark, Gerry O’Connor is from Dundalk and comes from a long line of fiddle players in the northeast from whom he has inherited a rich tradition. He is also influenced by John Joe Gardiner, the great Sligo fiddle player, who lived in Dundalk for many years.
His unique personal style and splendidly fluid bow-hand, combined with technical virtuosity, have brought him to concert stages throughout the world and have earned him international renown. He recorded four albums with Skylark and toured Europe with the band for 10 years. He has also produced a number of solo, live and collaborative albums.
He currently teaches music in the Dundalk Institute of Technology.
See: www.gerryoconnor.net
Nicholas Carolan
Nicholas Carolan is co-founder and director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive; lecturer and writer on Irish traditional music; presenter of The Irish Phonograph radio series and Come West Along the Road, RTÉ television series; secretary of the Folk Music Society of Ireland; lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin; and author of A Harvest Saved, the definitive work on Francis O’Neill and his crucial role in the preservation of Irish traditional music.
Manus O’Riordan
Manus O’Riordan is head of research at SIPTU. He has written extensively on the history of Ireland’s War of Independence and the Spanish Civil War, as well as on Irish and Irish-American labour history. A member of the National Economic and Social Council, he also serves on the Economic and Employment Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation.
Manus is a frequent participant at the Clé Club and is known for his original and entertaining background research and songs, often in several languages, with which he illustrates his given themes.
Francis Devine
Francis Devine is a distinguished labour historian and was a tutor in SIPTU’s Education and Training Department. He is a former editor of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, of which he is a past President.
Francis is a poet and singer who performs often at the Clé Club.
Dónall Ó Braonáin
Dónall Ó Braonáin is a journalist and critic, with a particular interest in the writings of Breandán Ó hEithir and Máirtín Ó Cadhain.
He lives in Conamara and is on the editorial staff of Raidió na Gaeltachta.
Vincent Woods
Vincent Woods is a poet and playwright from Co Leitrim. His plays include John Hughdy/Tom John (Galway, Druid Theatre Company, 1991); At the Black Pig’s D ẏke (Druid Theatre Company, 1992); Song of the Yellow Bittern (Druid Theatre Company, 1994); Fontamara (adaptation from the novel by Ignazio Silone, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Vesuvius Theatre Company, 1998); and A Cry From Heaven (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 2005, published London, Methuen, 2005); and for radio, The Leitrim Hotel.
He has staged Winter (Dublin, Projects Arts Centre, 2005), a version of an original play by Jon Fosse; and an adaptation of King Ubu by Alfred Jarry (Galway, 2006).
His poetry is collected as The Colour of Language (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1994): and Lives and Miracles, with drawings by Charles Cullen (Galway, Arlen House, 2006/Syracuse University, 2006).
He has won several awards, including The Stewart Parker Award for Drama, 1993; the PJ O’Connor Award for Radio Drama, and the M.J. McManus Award for Poetry.
A member of Aosdána, he hosts the weekly arts show, Arts Tonight, which is broadcast on Monday nights on RTÉ Radio One.
Néillidh Mulligan
Néillidh Mulligan has won All-Ireland titles throughout his lifetime, has toured extensively and has represented Ireland at various festivals throughout Europe. He is a founding member, patron and former chairman of Na Píobairí Uilleann – The Society of Uilleann Pipers.
In 1991 he released his debut solo album Barr Na Cúille – described as “one of the definitive recordings of uilleann piping” – to great critical acclaim, both at home and abroad, and includes some of Néillidh’s own compositions.
His second solo album, The Leitrim Thrush, which includes a track of the unique fiddle-playing of his father, Tom, was voted the Best Traditional Album and the Best Solo Album of 1997 by the readers of Irish Music Magazine.
He was selected to perform in the musical stage production The Well during the Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2000. More recently, he collaborated with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra for the music of the film When Harry Became a Tree.
Groups
Aisteoirí Chrónáin
Aisteoirí Chrónáin is a drama group comprised of members of Muintir Chrónáin, a community-based Irish language and cultural organisation based in Clondalkin. The group was founded in 2003 by two members of Muintir Chrónáin, Brendan Murray (a professional actor/director and well known as an adjudicator at drama festivals) and Brendan Kennedy (an amateur actor previously with Clondalkin Drama Group).
Following a recruitment campaign within the membership of Muintir Chrónáin, their first production Thompson In Tír Na nÓg was performed in Áras Chrónáin in February 2004. Since then they have produced a number of plays including The Playboy Of The Western World, Juno And The Paycock and most recently The Plough And The Stars in addition to which they have performed sketches “as Gaeilge” in the annual Seachtain na Gaeilge.
In December 2006 they performed An Beithlín Beo (The Living Crib) for the first time and this has now become an annual Christmas event. The main hall of Áras Chrónáin is transformed into a life size crib with live animals, and actors playing all the main parts of the Christmas story including a live baby. The production, which features choreographed movement to a specially collated musical sound track, has become a very popular family event attracting visitors from all over the country and from many different ethnic groups.
The Liberties History Group
The Liberties History Group evolved from an adult education class called “Fun With Words” in the Whitefriar Street Community Centre. Máirín Johnston, author of Around the Banks of Pimlico and Dublin Belles, was invited as a guest speaker to talk about Dublin’s Liberties.
Maírín found several former schoolmates and neighboiurs among the students. Many of them were women from the south inner city who decided to expand their studies to improving their Irish as well as their English.
Since then the women.have gone on together to explore song, music, arts, history, and literature. All singers and performers, they now meet in the Dublin 8 Community Education Centre in James’ s Street, and have established themselves as an annual feature of Bloomsday, when they dress in period costume and take over the back room in Davy Byrne’s pub with Joycean songs and readings from Ulysses.
An Góilín
The Góilín Traditional Singer's Club celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009. The Club was founded by Tim Dennehy and his brother-in-law Donal de Barra to give a platform for people who like to sing and listen to traditional Irish songs.
The Góilín’s motto is: “there is no standard set”, not in the singing anyway. We set a very high standard in listening. The rule of the club is: if someone is singing, reciting or performing in any way, total attention is given to the performance. Experience over the years has taught us that it doesn’t work any other way.
Anyone who has an interest in listening to, or performing songs will find that they are “as welcome as the flowers in May”.
The club meets every Friday night (with some exceptions) and breaks for the summer. The current schedule can be found on www.goilin.com. Everyone who attends is expected to contribute to the box when it goes around. A minimum contribution of €3 is expected.
BAPAM
BAPAM (the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine) is a unique charity delivering specialist health support to performing artists. Based in Britain where it has run specialist clinics since 1984 the organistation has recently been extending its services to Ireland where Dr Juliet Bressan, who is also a classical musician and writer, offers free, confidential health assessments for professional, semi-professional and student performing artists.
All BAPAM’s doctors are trained to high specifications in the specialised area of performing arts medicine. BAPAM has initiated a programme of health and safety talks for schools and colleges of the performing arts where students are advised on important, but often overlooked, aspects of performance relating to posture, ergonomics and safe practice.
Most BAPAM patients are musicians, but actors, dancers and variety artists can also get help with conditions ranging through muscle strain, voice loss, hearing impairment, anxiety, stress and addiction.
BAPAM ran an advice stall and short exercise classes at LHS 2009 and we hope to expand on this theme in 2010 and future Hedge Schools.
Programme 2010
cleclub@gmail.com
Phone 01 4066517
Peter Browne
Peter Browne was born in Dublin in 1953 and commenced playing traditional music at the age of 6. He received tuition in the playing of the uilleann pipes from three of the great players of modern times; Séamus Ennis, Leo Rowsome and Willie Clancy and on reaching his 'teens was already acknowledged as a leading player of that instrument. In his youth he attended many of the major traditional music events of the time with his family and frequently visited Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, home of Willie Clancy and Lisheen, Gneeveguilla, Co Kerry staying in the home of Denis Murphy the famous Sliabh Luachra fiddle player who was a family friend.In the early 1970's he played with the group 1691 which was a forerunner of The Bothy Band and later spent two periods playing on both pipes and flute with The Bothy Band who were much celebrated for their skilled and energetic approach to the playing of traditional Irish music.
He has played music in many countries in Europe and in North America at concerts, lectures and recitals and made two groundbreaking albums of music and song in the 1980's together with Philip King on the Gael-Linn label - Rince Gréagach and Seacht Nóiméad Déag chun a Seacht. These discs were combined and reissued in 2001 as Seacht Nóiméad Déag chun a Seacht on Gael-Linn CEFCD 097.
He has played as a session musician on recordings by such people as Paul Brady, Maura O' Connell, Mary Black, Mick Hanley, The Dubliners, Scullion and Cór Chúil Aodha and has also been part of various ventures in modern experimental music and has played the works of Bill Whelan, Michael Holahan, Roger Doyle and Paddy Meegan. He has featured as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra and with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on their 1998 tour of North America and in the series Music in the Classroom. He was the soloist with the Ulster Orchestra in a performance in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on St Patrick’s Day 2001 of The Brendan Voyage by Shaun Davey and has played the same work with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland. He performed on the Millennium stage in 2000 in the Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C and his performance can be viewed on the Kennedy Centre website. He frequently attends gatherings of uilleann pipers and summer schools as guest teacher, lecturer and performer. In May 2003, he was a guest musician with the Chieftains in two memorial concerts for harper Derek Bell, held in Dublin and Belfast.
He has twice been the winner of the Oireachtas uilleann-piping competition (The Breandán Breathnach Trophy in 1994 and 1998) and has also won the prize for slow-air playing in both those years.
He works in RTÉ Radio One with a special interest in traditional music. His most recent projects have included researching, presenting and producing series of documentary programmes on the lives and music of famous traditional players such as Séamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Pádraig O' Keeffe, Denis Murphy, Elizabeth Crotty and the 19th century traditional music collector Canon James Goodman.
He has also produced a series of commercial CD's for RTÉ which feature rare recordings of traditional music from the RTÉ Sound Archives, the latest of which are The Return from Fingal which features old recordings of the piper Séamus Ennis made over a 40 year period along with extensive biographical and musical notes, Elizabeth Crotty - Concertina Music from West Clare, a compilation of rare recordings by a famous musician from the West of Ireland and Labhrás Ó Cadhla, Amhráin ó Shliabh gCua, a collection of songs by a famous Waterford sean-nós singer.
He also teaches uilleann pipes, flute and tin-whistle at the DIT Conservatory of Music and drama.
Sibéal Davitt
SIBÉAL DAVITT is from Ranelagh, Dublin, where she grew up in an Irish speaking household with Gaeltacht connections to Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, Co. Mayo, in the west of Ireland. She comes from a musical background and has been sean-nós dancing and playing traditional Irish music from an early age. Her unique style of sean-nós dancing, which is heavily influenced by the Connemara sean-nós style, reflects her own passion for innovation and spontaneity as a form of expression through dance. She is a popular performer and teacher of sean-nós dancing at venues and festivals throughout Ireland and abroad.
2009 was a particularly busy and creative year for Sibéal having won the All-Ireland Glas Vegas talent competition on TG4, a prize which took her on a trip to the capital of entertainment, Las Vegas, where she performed as part of her winning prize.
This year is equally busy for Sibéal. She recently made her debut on TG4’s Glas Vegas 2010 show as a talent judge and mentor among the panel of judges. She has just returned from a very successful ‘Echoes of Erin 2010’ tour of Britain, a show which showcased the best of Irish talent and which visited over a dozen venues throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
Sibéal has performed on numerous RTÉ, TG4 and Raidió na Gaeltachta shows including the ‘The Late Late Show’. A recent ‘Mooney’ radio show with presenter Aonghus McAnally featured a live sean-nós dance performance with Sibéal that had distinct echoes of Din Joe’s ‘Take the Floor’ from another era. Other recent television performances and venues include TG4’s ‘Steip’, ‘Imeall’ and the ‘Electric Picnic 2009’ show; Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, Scotland, Yn Chruinnaght in the Isle of Man, Willie Clancy Festival in Miltown Malbay as well as Cork Opera House, Wexford Opera House, Armagh Theatre & Arts Centre and the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Sibéal has a keen interest in all dance genres. She studied ballet at the Doreen Feely School of Dance, Dublin, and contemporary with Coiscéim Creative Steps Dance Theatre Company, where she’s a current member. She developed her interest in contemporary, jazz and traditional forms of dance through workshops and stage performances. She won first prize in Ireland in the creative dance section of Scléip 2007 sponsored by Foras na Gaeilge and came second in the sean-nós dancing section at the Oireachtas arts festival later that year.
She conducts dance workshops for adults and young people and is currently teaching sean-nós dancing at The Cobblestone, Dublin and at Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s headquarters, An Chultúrlann, Monkstown, Dublin.
Sibéal is a student at Trinity College, Dublin, studying film media and the Irish language.
Email: sibeal.davitt@gmail.com Tel. 086 156 9833
See Sibéal’s winning performance on Glas Vegas competition with accordion player, Cormac Ó Murchú, on the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbvCp-aScBY&feature=related
Johnny Morrissey
Dance master Johnny Morrisey, who is also a well-known concertina player, is one of the featured instructors on the DVD, Irish Set Dancing Made Easy. He dates his interest in the dance form – which is said to have descended from the French quadrille – to his childhood in Tipperary, where he learned the steps first by watching his parents, relatives and neighbours stepping it out.
He has taught many calsses in the Dublin area in recent years, and has a long association with the Cumann Merriman Summer School, where he teaches classes and organises the nightly ceilí.
Gerry O’Connor
A founding member of Skylark, Gerry O’Connor is from Dundalk and comes from a long line of fiddle players in the northeast from whom he has inherited a rich tradition. He is also influenced by John Joe Gardiner, the great Sligo fiddle player, who lived in Dundalk for many years.His unique personal style and splendidly fluid bow-hand, combined with technical virtuosity, have brought him to concert stages throughout the world and have earned him international renown. He recorded four albums with Skylark and toured Europe with the band for 10 years. He has also produced a number of solo, live and collaborative albums.
He currently teaches music in the Dundalk Institute of Technology.
See: www.gerryoconnor.net
Nicholas Carolan
Nicholas Carolan is co-founder and director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive; lecturer and writer on Irish traditional music; presenter of The Irish Phonograph radio series and Come West Along the Road, RTÉ television series; secretary of the Folk Music Society of Ireland; lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin; and author of A Harvest Saved, the definitive work on Francis O’Neill and his crucial role in the preservation of Irish traditional music.
Manus O’Riordan
Manus O’Riordan is head of research at SIPTU. He has written extensively on the history of Ireland’s War of Independence and the Spanish Civil War, as well as on Irish and Irish-American labour history. A member of the National Economic and Social Council, he also serves on the Economic and Employment Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation.Manus is a frequent participant at the Clé Club and is known for his original and entertaining background research and songs, often in several languages, with which he illustrates his given themes.
Francis Devine
Francis Devine is a distinguished labour historian and was a tutor in SIPTU’s Education and Training Department. He is a former editor of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, of which he is a past President.Francis is a poet and singer who performs often at the Clé Club.
Dónall Ó Braonáin
Dónall Ó Braonáin is a journalist and critic, with a particular interest in the writings of Breandán Ó hEithir and Máirtín Ó Cadhain.
He lives in Conamara and is on the editorial staff of Raidió na Gaeltachta.
Vincent Woods
Vincent Woods is a poet and playwright from Co Leitrim. His plays include John Hughdy/Tom John (Galway, Druid Theatre Company, 1991); At the Black Pig’s D ẏke (Druid Theatre Company, 1992); Song of the Yellow Bittern (Druid Theatre Company, 1994); Fontamara (adaptation from the novel by Ignazio Silone, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Vesuvius Theatre Company, 1998); and A Cry From Heaven (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 2005, published London, Methuen, 2005); and for radio, The Leitrim Hotel. He has staged Winter (Dublin, Projects Arts Centre, 2005), a version of an original play by Jon Fosse; and an adaptation of King Ubu by Alfred Jarry (Galway, 2006).
His poetry is collected as The Colour of Language (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1994): and Lives and Miracles, with drawings by Charles Cullen (Galway, Arlen House, 2006/Syracuse University, 2006).
He has won several awards, including The Stewart Parker Award for Drama, 1993; the PJ O’Connor Award for Radio Drama, and the M.J. McManus Award for Poetry.
A member of Aosdána, he hosts the weekly arts show, Arts Tonight, which is broadcast on Monday nights on RTÉ Radio One.
Néillidh Mulligan
Néillidh Mulligan has won All-Ireland titles throughout his lifetime, has toured extensively and has represented Ireland at various festivals throughout Europe. He is a founding member, patron and former chairman of Na Píobairí Uilleann – The Society of Uilleann Pipers. In 1991 he released his debut solo album Barr Na Cúille – described as “one of the definitive recordings of uilleann piping” – to great critical acclaim, both at home and abroad, and includes some of Néillidh’s own compositions.
His second solo album, The Leitrim Thrush, which includes a track of the unique fiddle-playing of his father, Tom, was voted the Best Traditional Album and the Best Solo Album of 1997 by the readers of Irish Music Magazine.
He was selected to perform in the musical stage production The Well during the Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2000. More recently, he collaborated with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra for the music of the film When Harry Became a Tree.
Groups
Aisteoirí Chrónáin
Aisteoirí Chrónáin is a drama group comprised of members of Muintir Chrónáin, a community-based Irish language and cultural organisation based in Clondalkin. The group was founded in 2003 by two members of Muintir Chrónáin, Brendan Murray (a professional actor/director and well known as an adjudicator at drama festivals) and Brendan Kennedy (an amateur actor previously with Clondalkin Drama Group). Following a recruitment campaign within the membership of Muintir Chrónáin, their first production Thompson In Tír Na nÓg was performed in Áras Chrónáin in February 2004. Since then they have produced a number of plays including The Playboy Of The Western World, Juno And The Paycock and most recently The Plough And The Stars in addition to which they have performed sketches “as Gaeilge” in the annual Seachtain na Gaeilge.
In December 2006 they performed An Beithlín Beo (The Living Crib) for the first time and this has now become an annual Christmas event. The main hall of Áras Chrónáin is transformed into a life size crib with live animals, and actors playing all the main parts of the Christmas story including a live baby. The production, which features choreographed movement to a specially collated musical sound track, has become a very popular family event attracting visitors from all over the country and from many different ethnic groups.
The Liberties History Group
The Liberties History Group evolved from an adult education class called “Fun With Words” in the Whitefriar Street Community Centre. Máirín Johnston, author of Around the Banks of Pimlico and Dublin Belles, was invited as a guest speaker to talk about Dublin’s Liberties.
Maírín found several former schoolmates and neighboiurs among the students. Many of them were women from the south inner city who decided to expand their studies to improving their Irish as well as their English.
Since then the women.have gone on together to explore song, music, arts, history, and literature. All singers and performers, they now meet in the Dublin 8 Community Education Centre in James’ s Street, and have established themselves as an annual feature of Bloomsday, when they dress in period costume and take over the back room in Davy Byrne’s pub with Joycean songs and readings from Ulysses.
An Góilín
The Góilín Traditional Singer's Club celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009. The Club was founded by Tim Dennehy and his brother-in-law Donal de Barra to give a platform for people who like to sing and listen to traditional Irish songs.
The Góilín’s motto is: “there is no standard set”, not in the singing anyway. We set a very high standard in listening. The rule of the club is: if someone is singing, reciting or performing in any way, total attention is given to the performance. Experience over the years has taught us that it doesn’t work any other way.
Anyone who has an interest in listening to, or performing songs will find that they are “as welcome as the flowers in May”.
The club meets every Friday night (with some exceptions) and breaks for the summer. The current schedule can be found on www.goilin.com. Everyone who attends is expected to contribute to the box when it goes around. A minimum contribution of €3 is expected.
BAPAM
BAPAM (the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine) is a unique charity delivering specialist health support to performing artists. Based in Britain where it has run specialist clinics since 1984 the organistation has recently been extending its services to Ireland where Dr Juliet Bressan, who is also a classical musician and writer, offers free, confidential health assessments for professional, semi-professional and student performing artists.
All BAPAM’s doctors are trained to high specifications in the specialised area of performing arts medicine. BAPAM has initiated a programme of health and safety talks for schools and colleges of the performing arts where students are advised on important, but often overlooked, aspects of performance relating to posture, ergonomics and safe practice.
Most BAPAM patients are musicians, but actors, dancers and variety artists can also get help with conditions ranging through muscle strain, voice loss, hearing impairment, anxiety, stress and addiction.
BAPAM ran an advice stall and short exercise classes at LHS 2009 and we hope to expand on this theme in 2010 and future Hedge Schools.
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