Winter Concert Series
Classes, Concerts, Dancing
- Date
- 8 December 2007
- Time
- 7:00 PM
- Admission
- €10/8/5
- Location
- Brú na Sí is situated at the top of Cork Hill near the GAA club in Youghal.
- Address
- Brú na Sí
- Town
- Youghal
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Contact
- Micheál / Daithí
- Phone
- 00 353 87 793 4504 / 00 353 87 641 9081
- Instructor
- Geraldine O'Callaghan
- Instruments
- Fiddle
Ongoing winter workshop/concert series supported by Meitheal. This month featuring guest artist Geraldine O’Callaghan, fiddle player with the Allow Céilí Band who recently became the first Cork band to win the Senior All-Ireland Title at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann.
Geraldine O’ Callaghan is a fiddle player from Freemount, North Co. Cork and a member of the Allow Céilí Band. She has toured Ireland, Britain, North America and Canada with Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. Having completed a B. Mus degree in UCC, where she received the Donal ‘Doc’ Glesson award for outstanding performance, she has most recently completed a Masters degree in Ethnomusicology in the University of Limerick. Geraldine has performed alongside Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Mel Mercier and Niall Keegan and recently performed for Michael Flatley receiving the freedom of Cork city.
Craobh Eochaill CCÉ, with the support of the Meitheal initiative, recently launched a new winter concert series at their purpose built Teach Cheoil, Brú na Sí.
Ceolta Sí, the performing unit of Craobh Eochaill CCÉ and the resident performers at Brú na Sí, were involved in an intensive summer season when they performed three nights each week to full and enthusiastic audiences. The younger musicians of the Youghal branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann who are involved in the Lár na Cruinne group also performed at Brú na Sí through the summer and are currently preparing for a trip to their sister group, Craobh Amergin na Gael, in Wales.
The Brú na Sí Winter Concert series will run in tandem with a workshop programme allowing young musicians in east Cork access to training with the best musicians in the country. The programme is being run with the support of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann under the Meitheal initiative and is part of the forward thinking of the local branch. The workshops are a vital element in the development of provisions for music education in east Cork. Students will receive valuable training in specific instruments and performance skills.
Other artists who will feature in the coming months include Aoife Granville who recently released her debut album Sráid Eoin Shuffle and Christy Leahy of the band North Cregg whose fourth album The Roseland Barndance was also recently released. For more information contact Daithí Kearney. Tel. (087) 641 9081 or email: .
