Caride Festival 2011 programme

summer festivalSligo July 3 - July 10 2011

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www.cairdefestival.com

Sligo BoroughCouncil

Sligo BoroughCouncil

The European AgriculturalFund

for rural Development:Europe investing in Rural

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Cairde gratefully acknowledges the support of the following

McGarrigles

Accomodation Sponsors Media Partners

Business Sponsors

hargadons

Cairde thanks all those who support our annual fundraiserAnnie Harrison, Ard Nahoo Eco Retreat, Art Upstairs, Avena Leisure Ballisodare, Beads upstairs, Blue Raincoat TheatreCompany, Cairde Festival, Castle Dargan, Cat and the Moon, Chapel Lane Dance Studio, Charlie Kelly, Cinema NorthWest, CMG Painting and Decorating, County Sligo Golf Club, Rosses Point, Craftsman Press, Curves Gym, Declan McPartland, Diamond Coast Hotel, Enniscrone, Dickon Whitehead Photographer, Donaghey’s , Dooney’s,Dumore Embroidery, Easy Rider & the Venusians, Elvery’s, Janet McGowan, Kathleen McGowan, Feehily’s Florist,Fionnuala O’Hare, Flanagan’s Cycles, Funny Bones, Gilbert Henry Goldsmith, Happy Days, Henry & Kearins Solicitors,Itchy Feet, Joyn Studios, Keith Clarke, Keohane’s Bookshop, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Lynda Gault Ceramics, MarkreeCastle, Michael Quirke, Michael Wann, Mike Harris, Miss Honey, Mulreany Guckian Optometrists, O2, Organic Centre,Rossinver, PJ Parking, Quickcrop, Record Room, Ron Beemster, Rosses Point Sailing Course, Sheena Gavin, SligoAcademy of Music, Sligo Aeroclub, Sligo Jazz Project, Sligo Live , Sligo Rovers, Sligo Yacht Club, Sligo Sailing Club,Rosses Point, Sligo Seashore Fishing School, Source Sligo, Steve Rogers, Strandhill Golf Club , Temple House Festival,The Studio, Tom O’Rourke, Vibe Tattoo, Vogler Festival, Voya Seaweed Baths, Westlife, Turf n Surf.

Co. SligoVEC

Sligo TouristDevelopmentAssociation

Festival Patrons Joe McGowan / sligoheritage.com, Peter McGowan,and Eileen & Ray Monahan

The Cairde Festival would like to dedicate this space, normally reserved for awelcome note, to the many people who help to make the festival happen.

Cairde would not exist without the generosity of a great number of individuals andvolunteers who selflessly give of their time, services, equipment, expertise, advice.We gratefully pay tribute to the following people for their unwavering commitmentand support.

Grainne Dunne, Jim Meehan, Barra Cassidy, Peigin Doyle, Eithne Hand, Brian Devaney, Karen Masden, Niamh O’Connor, Stephanie Pawula, Dicky Gabel,Amy O’Hara, Paul Cunningham, Marie O’Byrne and The Hawk’s Well, The Model, Heidi Wickham, Tara Henry, Paul Rippon, Meav Gallagher, Leonora Neary,Noreen O’Callaghan, Fiona McGeown, Jaimie Carswell, Peter McGowan, Joe McGowan, Roman Szypura, Teresa Needham, Jemma Clerkin, Paul Gavin,Michael Cummins, Aine Kelly, Pia Luck, Karen Webster, Shane Leonard, Kart Inno,Pauline McLoughlin, Michael Carty, John Carty, Shane Flanagan, Thorsten Kahlert, Liz Sheridan, Sligo Rowing Club, Dominic Callaghan, Sligo Kayak Club, RNLI.

This is in no particular order – Cairde thanks you all sincerely for helping to make ithappen. We apologise for anyone who we have forgotten and for all of you whohave come on board after print.

And thanks to all of you for coming along, taking part and supporting the CairdeSummer Festival. We hope you enjoy this year’s programme!

Cairde Festival Director: Tara McGowanCairde Festival Co-Ordinator: Grainne DunneCairde is a Limited Company. Charity No CHY 18249

Thank You

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The Shelly RiverBoat Race followed by open airperformance by The Odd Socks Revival

Sunday July 3 from 7pm

The Shelly River Boat Race is a massiveoutdoor celebration of the ShellyRiver(Garavogue River) featuring a modelboat race on the river with streetentertainment and music along the riverbanks. The Project is the result of acommunity arts project involvinggroups from Sligo town and county whohave been busy making model boatsand river decor using recycled materials.Individuals are also welcome to submittheir own boat into the race – details forentry, along with guidelines on boatbuilding, are available on our websiteon www.cairdefestival.com

Join us for the fun and excitement of theboat race which is accompanied by akaliedoscope of entertainment providedby Co. Sligo Youth Theatre, TheGombeens, Samboeire Samba Band,Sligo Concert Band and a free out doorconcert by The Odd Socks Revival.

Venue Race starts JFK Parade, SligoAdm Free



Sligo artist, Heidi Wickham, has put together a collection of animal and landscapecharcoal drawings for The Yeats Memorial Building, Hyde Bridge. The work includesWickham favourites: hares and cows, but a few other animals make an appearancetoo. All the drawings are made using compressed charcoal or “burnt wood",probably mankind's earliest mark-making tool.


Burnt WoodVisual Art Exhibition by Heidi WickhamRuns until July 15

Sunday July 3 at 2pm

Venue The Yeat’s Memorial Building, Hyde BridgeAdm Free

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Arts ‘n’ Health

Monday July 4 at 5pmRuns until Saturday July 9 11am to 4pm Daily

Venue Joyn Studios, Charles Street, SligoAdm Free

This is a collaborative exhibition featuring work from a wealth of arts and healthprogrammes which take place around County Sligo.

Image: H

eidi Wickham


From Montreal, Jeff Achtem transforms bits of junk into surrealshadow puppets. Flying chickens, brain transplants and sneaky Ninjas! Come play in the dark! In each shadow puppet scene, the audiencesimultaneously watches the visual transformation of household junk, into shadow puppet cartoons. A feast for the imagination.

“Nothing short ofmagical"Edinburgh Spotlight


Venue The Model, The Mall, SligoAdm €10/€7 (Suitable for all ages)

Bunk Puppets and Scamp Theatre present

Sticks, Stones and Broken Bones

Monday July 4 and Tuesday July 512 Noon and 7pm Daily


Don't miss this sublime one-act by themaster of farce Anton Chekhov. Anacerbic and insightful battle-of-the-sexes involving love, guns, and money,innovatively staged at the Sligo Tradesclub. In her drawing room, ElenaPopova, feisty and vulnerable in equalmeasures, and smouldering withmaudlin passion, is mourning the deathof her husband while attended by herfaithful manservant Luka. EnterSmirnov, an arrogant, self-centredretired soldier, farmer, vendor and self-proclaimed misogynist, seekingpayment of an old debt...In this hilarious comedy of errorsChekhov gives new insight into theabsurdly thin line between love andhate!

Featuring Jaimie Carswell, Fiona McGeown, Pablo Ibarluzeaand directed by Caroline Lynch


The Bearby Anton Chekhovwith Love, Guns and Money. A Cairde Festival Production

Monday July 4 to Thursday July 71pm Daily

Venue Sligo Trades Club, Castle Street, SligoAdm €12 incl Lunch by the fabulous Kate’s Kitchen

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Sligo's very own pocket-sized circushit Cirque de Légume returns for somevery exclusive Sligo dates before asummer tour to the UK Canada, and NewYork City!

Hailed by the Scotsman as “utterlybonkers" and described by theEdinburgh Fringe Review as “JacquesTati meets Tommy Cooper at thegreengrocers" this is your chance tocatch the Greatest Vegetable Circus onEarth before it tours to the prestigiousMontréal Completément Cirque Festivalwhere they perform alongside VictoriaChaplin and Cirque du Soleil, amongmany other circus greats. Enjoy 50 minutes of pure mayhem astwo idiots put on an amazingly stupid

circus spectacular using only a chair anda box of cast-off vegetables! Driven byan explosive theatrical imagination andunbridled absurdity, Cirque de Légumeshows us how beautiful life can be if weonly stop to play with it.

Catch the insanity of Sligo's homegrowncircus success with two exclusive Irishdates at Cairde.

“Has to be seen to bebelieved!" RTE Radio One


Venue McGarrigles, UpstairsAdm €10

Cirque DeLegume

Monday July 4 and Tuesday July 5at 10pm


Featuring the best of children's fairytales characters such as Alice in Wonderland,Red Riding Hood, Peter Pan and many more Eleanor's Secret is a beautifullyanimated tale about the importance of being able to read.This screening is generously funded by The International Fund for Ireland


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The Model CinemaEleanor’s Secret

Wednesday July 6 at 11am

Venue The Model, The Mall, SligoAdm Free, but booking is essential

Book online at www.themodel.ie or phone The Model reception on (071) 91 41405

Inter-active and fun storytelling session by Co Sligo Youth Theatre membersRebecca Williams and Jordan Gallagher. Suitable for ages 3 to 8, Rebecaa andJordan will tell some classic tales with unusual twists!

Storytelling

Wednesday July 6, Thursday July 7and Friday July 8 at 2pm daily

Venue Wednesday 6 July County Sligo Library, Stephen Street, SligoThursday 7 July Greenlands Caravan Park, Rosses PointFriday 8 July Strandhill Caravan Park, Strandhill

Adm Free. Suitable for ages 3 to 8


Cairde welcomes Lisa Hannigan to this year’s festival. With the wonderful JohnSmith in support.

Lisa is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician. Her music has received criticalpraise, airplay and award nominations both in her native Ireland and, more recently,in the United States. She began singing with Damien Rice in 2001, performing onthe majority of tracks on his debut album, ‘O’, and accompanying him in his liveperformances as a vocalist and, occasionally, on electric guitar. Lisa also workedwith Damien on his album, ‘9’, singing the lead vocal on the album’s first singleand opening song, ‘9 Crimes’. She began her solo career in 2008 with her debutalbum Sea Saw which spawned the single ‘Lille’, a Choice Music Prize nomination,two Meteor Music Awards nominations and a Mercury Prize nomination.

There has also been praise from fellow musicians and, in recent times, from JoolsHolland and from US television hosts Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert.

Herby Hancock said of her vocals, “there’s so much jazz in the notes and phrasesthat she picks… I mean some of the things sound like choices that Miles would havemade”.


Venue The Model, The Mall, SligoAdm €20

Lisa HanniganWith support byJohn Smith

Wednesday July 6 at 9pm


Tupelo are one of the nation’s most unique bands, blending classic Irish influencesand instrumentation with the less expected influence of American folk andbluegrass music. Their eclectic line-up includes banjo, fiddle, brass and double bass– all blended into a sound that is both unusual and familiar. The band have beenhoning their sound up and down Ireland for the past few years, playing at festivalssuch as the Electric Picnic and Cork Jazz and picking up fans of the stature of DaveFanning and Imelda May.

Following the release of their debut album Dirty Money, Tupelo have been playinglive to packed houses all over Ireland.

The Creaking Willow String Band features Sarah Barry, Fionnuala Kennedy, Devon MacGillivery, Willie Stewart


TupeloWith Support by The Creaking Willow String Band

Thursday July 7 at 10pm

Venue McGarrigles, O’Connell Street, SligoAdm €10

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Sunday July 3 Burnt WoodVisual Art Exhibition by Heidi Wickham2pm, The Yeats Memorial Building,Hyde Bridge, Sligo,Free (Runs until Fri July 15)

Sunday July 3 The ShellyRiver Boat Race and TheOdd Socks Revival7pm, JFK Parade, Sligo, Free

Monday July 4Arts ‘n’ Health Exhibition5pm, Joyn Studios, Charles Street, Sligo,Free (Runs until Sat July 9)

Monday July 4 & Tuesday July 5Sticks, Stones and Broken Bones12 noon and 7pm daily, The Model,The Mall, Sligo, €10/€7

Monday July 4 to Thursday July 7The Bear by Anton Chekhov1pm daily (duration 35 mins), The Trades Club, Grattan Street, Sligo,€12 including lunch

Monday July 4 & Tuesday July 5Cirque de Legume10pm, McGarrigles, O’Connell Street,Sligo, €10

Wednesday July 6 Film: Eleanor’s Secret11am (duration 116 minutes), TheModel, The Mall, Sligo, Free

Wednesday July 6Storytelling2pm, Sligo County Library, StephenStreet, Sligo, Free

Wednesday July 6 Lisa Hanniganwith support by John Smith9pm The Model, The Mall,Sligo, €20

Thursday July 7Storytelling2pm, Greenlands Caravan Park,Rossespoint, Free

Cairde Festival 2011 Events at a Glance

Thursday July 7Tupelo, with support by CreakingWillow String Band10pm, McGarrigles, O’Connell Street,€10

Friday July 8Storytelling2pm, Strandhill Caravan Park,Strandhill, Free

Friday July 8The Bahh Band7pm, Source, O’Connell Street€15, incl glass of wine and Tapas

Friday July 8Yungchen Lhamo and Dónal Lunny9pm, The Hawkswell Theatre, Temple Street, Sligo, €22/€18

Friday July 8Double Bill: Barefoot and Co-Ex10pm, McGarrigles, O’Connell Street,Sligo, €10

Saturday July 9The Frivolous Fare12 noon – 6pm, Stephen Street CarPark, Sligo, Free

Saturday July 9Global Kids DiscoThe Library Room at The GaravogueBar, Sligo, €3

Saturday July 9Rumbatism10pm Source, O’Connell Street, SligoFree (Donations Welcome)

Saturday July 9Rhythms of the City followed byDJs Barra and Will Softly10pm, The Garavouge Bar, Sligo, Free

Sunday July 10Park Fest12 noon to 7pm, The Peace Park,Sligo, Free

Sunday July 10Massive Sunday Mass8pm McGarrigles, O’Connell Street,Sligo, Free

For booking www.cairdefestival.comor telephone 071 9161201


Concerts in Care is a series of performances which take place in care settings duringthe festival week, thus making the festival more accessible. Following the successof last year’s performances in care settings, Cairde has invited Oleg Ponomarev andlocal musicians Eddie Lee, Steve Wickham and Jim Meehan to play in a number ofhealth and care settings to include, Nazareth House Nursing Home and theAdmissions Unit of the Mental Health Services in Sligo Town. The performances areopen to residents, service users, their families and staff.


Concerts in Care


What happens when a thousand year old musical tradition gets washed up on theshores of a vibrant multi-cultural city in the West of Ireland. The result is the BahhBand. Based in Galway, the Bahh Band mix Indian classical forms with an array ofworld folk traditions and stir it all up with a healthy dose of rock and blues.Founded in 2007, the group have been recruiting musicians to realise a vision ofecstatic and passionate semi-improvised music. From performing in a thunderousstorm packed tent on the final night of Electric Picnic, to playing for thousands ofdevotees in the RDS in Dublin for Indian guru, Amma, the Bahh Band have becomeknown for their hypnotic and engaging live shows. An equal parts blending of DeadCan Dance, Sigur Ros and Kila, the Bahh Band have developed a cult followingbased on their unique sound.

“exceedingly talented and diverse the BahhBand mix bluegrass, folk and easternsounds seamlessly… East meets West inthe best possible way”


Bahh Bandwith wine and tapas by Source Sligo

Friday July 8 at 7pm

Venue Source, O’Connell StreetAdm €15, including a glass of wine and tapas

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A rare musical treat. Cairde takes greatpleasure in presenting two of theworld’s most inspirational musicians forwhat promises to be leading a uniqueand spellbinding performance. Yungchen Lhamo

Since fleeing Tibet on foot in 1989,Yungchen Lhamo has emerged as theleading Tibetan vocalist on the worldstage. From the quays of Sydney,Australia to the spotlight of CarnegieHall, her a cappella performances haveenchanted audiences in more than 70countries since she began touringprofessionally in 1994.

Yungchen's name was given to her by aTibetan Lama when she was a baby andtranslates to “Goddess of Melody and

Song." Since the release of her award-winning first album Tibetan Prayer, hermusic has met with critical praiseworldwide, alternately described as

“beautifully evocative," “mesmerizing,"“spine-tingling," and “transcendent."

Dónal Lunny needs no introduction.Considered to be one of the moreinfluential people in the renaissance ofIrish music since the '70's, Dónal Lunnyhas been involved in Irish music all ofhis life. He was a founding member ofPlanxty, The Bothy Band and MovingHearts and has produced some of themost important albums of thetraditional music revival since the '70s.


Venue The Hawk’s Well Theatre, Temple StreetAdm €22/€18

Donal Lunny &Yungchen Lhamo

Friday July 8 at 9pm


An exciting musical double bill featuring Barefoot and Co-Ex

Barefoot are a dynamic trio who bring together a unique blend of original andtraditional music. Influences such as Irish, Balkan and Austrian folk, Indianclassical music, and African rhythm, meet the original songs and compositions ofthis vibrant, atmospheric project. Featuring Claudia Schwab, Fergal O’Connor andEamonn Cagney.

CoEx Electro-dub and Live Art (Germany/Austria/Ireland)Cork-based German Klaus Vormehr, has been composing and recording electronicmusic for 20 years here in Ireland. One of the founders of Sligo’s infamous Dub Clubin the early 90’s he will performing his first gig in the town since then. The CoExsound is steeped in deepest dub, but with lively latin dance beats played by Dublinpercussionist, Peter Crann. Claudia Schwab draws from her classical and orientalmusic influences to create virtuostic trance-tastic soundscapes with her violin.Multi-instrumentalist Sarah Barry adds to this high-octane and colourfulperformance with a variety of instruments.

Peter will be improvising live animation by creating sand drawings projected onto alarge screen


Double BillBarefoot and Co-Ex

Friday July 8 from 10pm til late

Venue McGarrigles, O’Connell Street, UpstairsAdm €10

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An eclectic market of fancy and frivolous fare, vintage and new bazarr, arts andcrafts and beautiful bits ‘n’ bobs. The Frivolous Fare will also feature guest Djs, TheMad Hatters tea party, face painting for the little and not so little uns, tea, coffeeand snacky, goody, yum yums. An outdoor market with groovy laid back music andsome mad cap fun thrown in for good measure right in the centre of Sligo Town.

Children! Bounce, wiggle, move and groove to some of the best in global sounds byeffervescent One World Irish DJ Will Softly. A regular at the Festival of WorldCultures and a veteran of The Midlands Music Festival, Electric Picnic, andGarden Party, DJ Will Softly invites kids and their parents alike to boogie on downfor an afternoon of family-friendly tunes and lively beats.



The Frivolous FareSaturday July 9 from 12pm - 6pm

Venue Stephen Street CarparkAdm Free

Kids Global DiscoSaturday July 9 from 4pm - 6pm

Venue The Library Bar, Garavogue BarAdm €3


Rumbatism is a band lead by the Sligo-based Mallorcan singer/guitarist FelipCarbonell of NoCrows fame and his long time collaborator, Sligo's greatest jazzexport, Mike Nielsen, in an enticing musical mix, both rootsy and virtuosic. The bandspecialises in Felip's own fiery brand of Catalan Rumba, a Catalonian take on themore traditional Rumba music of South America, made famous throughout the latinworld in the 70's and 80's by Gato Perez. Rumbatism, which also features guitaristEddie McFarlane, bassist Eddie Lee and drummer/percussionist Ken McDonald, alsoperforms latin jazz and even some pop standards in the same style. As Felip says

“Everything is Rumba-ble!"


RumbatismFelip Carbonell and Mike Nielsenwith Eddie McFarlane, Eddie Lee and Ken McDonald

Saturday July 9 at 10pm

Venue Source, O’Connell StreetAdm Free (Donations Welcome)

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Rhythms of the City... London's baddest bateria (percussion section)with dancers and singers cover it all...funk, reggae, motown, samba, soca -mashed up carnival style.

Since 1999, Rhythms of the City hasbeen the F-IRE Collective's beating heart,a street percussion band where teachers,professionals and students learn andplay alongside one another. Togetherwith star singers, dancers, horn sectionand guitars, the band presents powerfulmusic played on Brazilian drums -fromclassic samba and samba-reggae, to itsown unique and revolutionarydevelopments in samba-funk, samba-hip-hop and even soca and salsa!


Venue Garavogue BarAdm Free

Rhythms of the CityFollowed by DJs Barra and Will Softly

Saturday July 9 at 10pm

“a careering,squeaking in-your-face mix that makesyou proud to be aLondoner. Visionary stuff."Songlines Magazine


A day long celebration of music,performance, food, arts and crafts inSligo’s Peace Park! Those who knowPark Fest know that this is one of thehighlights of the Cairde Festival. This year’s Park Fest features music byOliver Alcorn, Chord Barbershop Quartet,Raw Chocolate, JPTrio and No Crowstogether with a range of children’s artworkshops and global arts, craft andfood stands and circus performance byThe Barren Carrousel. The lastremaining members of this 27thgeneration circus family will dazzle youwith backcracking contortions and deathdefying aerial feats. Prepare to beamazed.


Park Fest

Sunday July 10 from 12 noon to 7pm

Venue The Peace ParkAdm Free

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Event Location Map

Booking Info

SHELLY RIVER (GARAVOGUE)

WINE STREET HYDE BRIDGE STEPHEN STREET THE MALLBRIDGE STREET TEELIN

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MARKIEVICZ ROAD

CONNAUGHTON ROAD

HOLBURN STREET

ROCKWOOD PARADE

JFK PARADEO’CON

NELL STREET HARM

ONY HILL DOM

INIC ST

JOHN STREET GRATTEN STREET CASTLE STREET

ABBEY STREET

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INNER RELIEF ROAD (N4)

CHURCH ST WEST GARDENS

MARKET STREET HIGH STREET

QUAY STEET

CHAPEL STREET

CHAPEL HILL

PEARSE ROAD

Visit www.cairdefestival.com or buy tickets at Sligo Tourist Office 071 9161201

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