Strings& ThingsClashmore

FRIDAY JUNE 2ND - SUNDAY JUNE 4TH

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

CLASHMORE, CO. WATERFORD

Moana

Bring your small ones to watch Mona

the movie.

Sponsored by James Fitzgerald Electrical.

Old School House12.00pmFree

Pablo’s RegattaClashmore Ramblers FC will race their boats down the river in their annual Ramblers Regatta. All proceeds with be split between the club and Irish Cancer. Boats are €3 or three for €5.

Clown show and Circus Workshop

Sponsored by Youghal Credit Union

Clashmore Village12.00pm - 4.00pm Free

Junior Busking Competition Come join the junior busking competition on the main street in Clashmore from 1-4pm. All

age groups.

1st Prize ¤752nd Prize ¤503rd Prize ¤25

Sponsored by Kieran Foley Construction.

Well Lane1.00pm - 4.00pm Free Entry

Natural Gas TrioBest known for their song “The Langer”, Cork trad band Natural Gas

Trio with take to the River Stage.

River Stage2.30pm - 4.30pmFree

Gemma and the JetsGemma is one of most popular front women in Irish music. They cover a multitude of songs including The Beatles, Country,

Soul and Rock n’Roll.

River Stage4.00pm - 6.00pmFree

Crow Black ChickenCrow Black Chicken have earned

a reputation as one of Irelands

top blues acts. This power trio

of Christy O Hanlon (Vocals,

Guitar) Stephen McGrath (Bass)

and Gev Barrett (Drums, backing

vocals) combine elements of

folk and hard rock with the blues

rock of bands like Gov’t mule,

Lynyrd Skynyrd and Led Zeppelin

to create their greasy blues

rock sound.

River Stage 6.30pm - 8.30pm Free

Mick Flannery UnpluggedCork singer and songwriter

Mick Flannery released his fi fth

album ‘I Own You’ in 2016 to

great acclaim. Flannery’s songs

usher us into a world which is by

times emotional, romantic, dark,

insightful and hopeful.

Old School House 8.00pmTickets €20

Decies BarHank Wedel Trio

10.00pm

Rising Sun BarMartin Murray & Mo Connors

10.00pm

Old Still BarFull Circle

10.00pm

Sponsors

Aiden O’Rourke Electrical, Brian Foley Building and Carpentry Services,

Billy O’Connell, Motors, Bulmers, Clashmore Boarding Kennels, Cillian and

Lisa McGrath, Clashmore & Kinsalebeg Community Council, Clashmore

& Kinsalebeg GAA Club, Clashmore and Kinsalebeg Macra na Feirme,

Clashmore National School, Clashmore Ramblers FC, Cliff House Hotel,

Country Store, Dungarvan, Dawn Meats, Deise Line Dancers, Diageo,

Eachtra Archaeological Projects, Gerry Keane, Gerry Twomey, An Siopa

Nua, Gerry Vickers, Harvard Film Archive, Heineken, Imperial Hotel

Youghal, James Fitzgerald, Electrical, Jim McGrath, JJ Fitzgerald, John

Fitzgeralds Workshop, John Power, Johnny Flavin, Physical Therapist,

Kay Ledingham, Kiely Donohue Wholesalers, Kieran Foley, Killian McGrath,

Liquid Solutions, Mark Johnson, Nell Murphy, Paddy Hurton, Peter

Fitzgerald and Vinnie O’Rourke (Clashmore Road Bowling) Pat Nolan,

Wooden Products, Ruairi Roddy at WWCBB, Seanie Coyne, Shane Keohane,

Scaffolding, Stephen Dunne and Martin Hoskins, Stepping Stones,

SuperValu, Youghal, Suzanne Allen, Tom Kelly Kitchens, The Decies Bar,

The Old Still Bar, The Rising Sun, Walter Raleigh Hotel, Waterford County

Council, Waterford Wood, Ardmore, Whitehorses, Ardmore, Youghal Credit

Union and Yvonne & Maurice O’Donovan.

SUNDAY JUNE 4TH

Draw will take place on River Stage on Sunday June 4th at 8pm

Tickets €2 per line or 3 for €5

GRAND PRIZE DRAW

Overnight Stay for Two at

The Cliff House Hotel

Overnight Stay for Two at

The Imperial Hotel

Overnight Stay for Two at

The Walter Raleigh Hotel

Mick Flannery Unplugged“In the end of the day and the heel of the hunt, you’re left with the songs.

Everything else comes and goes - the shows and the tours and the

applause and the acclaim, which goes with them, the prattle and the

palaver which accompany an album release. Everything else fades out of

view. Everything else doesn’t matter in the long run. But the songs remain.

The songs you write on your own stick around. They’re going to be here

for many years to come so they deserve to be treated with due care and

utmost respect in the creation process”. Mick Flannery - 2017

Mick Flannery realised this a long time ago. He also realised that

songwriting was the best part of this strange job of being a jobbing-

gigging-talking-singing musician.

“Mick Flannery is a singing and songwriting force to be reckoned with”

Siobhán Long, Irish Times

“Mick is a songwriter of the fi rst order… His voice is pained, gravelly, and

powerful. Recorded or live, it carries through and stops you in your tracks”

Urban Folk, New York

“This former stonemason from Cork is a cracking songwriter with a voice

that can stop you in your tracks” Tom Gatti, The Times UK

Tickets can be purchased in The Old Still Bar daily from 3pm - 10pm.

Contact 024 82009 or 087 4148651.

Please note the Old School house is limited to 80 seats so please book early to

avoid disappointment.

Old School House Sunday June 4th at 8.00pm Tickets €20

MICK FLANNERY

MAYFIELD BIRDS OF PREY

WOBBLY CIRCUS

WOBBLY CIRCUS STILTWALKERS

VILLAGE FAIR

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Two Time PolkaGuitars, bass, drums, mandolin and accordion drive the Cajun sound of

this band with classic rhythms and punchy vocals. Brilliant musicianship

combines with a swing-sound that defi es toes to tap and makes Two Time

Polka an infectious, danceable festival band. Tickets can be purchased in

The Old Still Bar daily from 3pm - 10pm. Contact 024 82009 or

087 4148651.

Please note the Old School house is limited to 80 seats so please book early to

avoid disappointment.

Old School House 8.00pm Tickets €15

PONTIUS PILOT AND THE NAILDRIVERS

CROW BLACK CHICKEN OIDHCHE SHEANCHAIS

GEMMA AND THE JETS

TWO TIME POLKA

NATURAL GAS TRIO

CLARE SANDS

HANK WEDEL

Decies BarEastbound & Down

10.00pm

Rising Sun BarDave L

10.00pm

Old Still BarKaara

10.00pm

Decies BarClare Sands Trio

10.00pm

Rising Sun BarThe Relics of Valentine

10.00pm

Old Still BarHank Wedel Trio

10.00pm

We would like to welcome you to the 2017 Strings and

Things Festival. Due to the success of last year’s Festival

we decided, as a committee, to continue it in 2017. It

would not work without the support of so many people in

the village who have organised and supported our fund

raisers. We hope you enjoy our programme for this year.

There is an old Irish saying “Ar scath á chéile a mhaireann

na daoine” which means people live in each other’s

shadows or that we depend on each other. We hope that

this festival will be an opportunity for neighbours and

friends to celebrate all that’s good about our village and

that you will come and join us in that celebration.

Strings and Things Festival Committee

Tickets can be purchased in The Old Still Bar daily

from 3pm - 10pm. Contact 024 82009 or 087 4148651.

Please drink responsibly over the weekend.

Opening Parade Village parade led by the winners of the national schools poster design

competition from Old School House to the River Stage accompanied by the

Wobbly Circus Stiltwalkers. Offi cial opening of the festival followed by ‘The

Little Strings’ and ‘The Hard Workers’ performing their guitar prowess on

the main stage (T-shirts Sponsored by Eachtra Archaeological Projects). Kaara

will play on the River Stage from 7.00pm to 9.00pm.

The River Stage is sponsored by Killian McGrath & Liquid Solutions.

Starting at the Old School House to the River Stage6.00pmFree

Len Rodgers MemorialThe annual Len Rodgers Memorial Cup will be held in Pablo Park. This competition showcases the talents of local schoolboy soccer teams. Come out and support the young ramblers and ramblerettes.

Pablo Park10.00am - 4.00pmFree

Teddy Bears PicnicCome to the teddy bears picnic in the playground. Entertainment will be provided by the Balloon Man and storytellers and there will be lots of little treats for the small ones. Bring

your own Teddy.

Sponsored by Stepping Stones .

Playground11.00am - 1.00pmFree

Village FairVisit the village fair which will be held around The Heritage Centre along with Mayfi eld Birds of Prey from Kilmacthomas.

Mayfi eld Birds of Prey Sponsored by

Stephen Dunne and Martin Hoskins.

The Heritage Centre11.30am - 2.30pmFree

Children’s ActivitiesA host of children’s activities, Bucking Bronco and Bouncy Castle Slide will take place at the Village Fair including a Clown Show.

Clown show and Circus Workshop

Sponsored by Liz Salmon & The

Old Still.

The Heritage Centre11.30am - 2.30pm Free

Local BandsThese are Clashmore/ Kinsalebeg’s fi nest young musicians from 8-16 who will

sing and play on the River Stage.

River Stage2.30pm - 4.00pmFree

NewfoundlandAn Irish traditional contemporary band just back from touring Canada, playing banjo, mandolin, fi ddles,fl utes.

Mighty craic.

River Stage4.00pm - 6.00pmFree

Oidhche SheanchaisA viewing of the fi rst Irish language fi lm Oidhche Sheancchais directed by Robert Flaherty.

Old School House7.00pm - 8.00pm Free

Pontius Pilot and The NaildriversIn 1999, four people came

together as Pontious Pilate &

The Naildrivers because of their

love of the energy, message

and fun of ska music. They are

now a nine piece ska explosion

complete with brass section.

River Stage7.00pm - 9.00pmFree

FRIDAY JUNE 2ND SATURDAY JUNE 3RD

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Robert Flaherty’s lost Irish Gaelic fi lm found at HarvardDocumentary pioneer Robert Flaherty directed the fi rst fi lm made in the

Irish language, Oidhche Sheanchais (“A Night of Storytelling”) in 1935

during the production of his now classic fi lm Man of Aran.

Cited in nearly every history of Irish cinema, this short (11 minute) fi lm

has been missing, believed lost, since a fi re destroyed the only known

copies in 1943. A nitrate print of the fi lm, purchased by the Harvard

College Library in 1935 at the request of Harvard’s Department of Celtic

Languages and Literatures, was rediscovered by Houghton Library

curators during a cataloging update in 2012.

Oidhche Sheanchais, a fascinating distillation of Flaherty’s belief in

cinema as a kind of folkloric art, depicts a typical Irish hearth, where

the main cast members of Man of Aran sit, listening to an ancient tale

told by famed Seanchaí (storyteller) Seáinín Tom Ó Dioráin. Oidhche

Sheanchais is Flaherty’s fi rst work in direct sound and the fi rst “talkie” in

Irish Gaelic. It was fi lmed in the same London studio where the Man of

Aran cast had already gathered for the recording of post-synch sound.

Sponsored by Brian Foley Building and Carpentry Services.

Old School House7.00pm - 8.00pm Free