African music, festival, music, dance, tribal, Cork city, Cork music, Feile Africa.
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| From: May 7, 2008 |
To: May 31, 2008 |
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Description: Cork city plays host the Feile Africa music festival. |
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Thursday 22nd
Visual Representations of Africa chaired by Nora Hickey
For more info and booking enquiry contact Nora Hickey
Lewis Glucksman Gallery UCC Cork - 5.00 pm
FREE ENTRY
Music events:
Thursday 22nd May
GREGORY ISAACS with his band Live Wyya
With DJ Bellyman in support
Reggae's leading 'loverman' Gregory Isaacs is about to play his first gig in Ireland. Born into poverty in 1950 in Fletchers Land, Kingston Jamaica, Gregory worked as an electrician and cabinet maker before turning to music and forming a group called the Concords..
When success eluded them, Gregory decided on a solo career and released “Dancing Floor” with ska legend Prince Buster. But it was his own African Museum label, formed with friend Errol Dunkley that started his extraordinary run of hits - reggae classics such as “Love is Overdue, “Soon Forward” “Black A Kill Black” and “Night Nurse”, later recorded by Simply Red, Gregory's astute social commentary combined with the intimate tenderness of his vocal style makes him unique. So enjoy a rare opportunity to
see one of reggae's greats ‘live an direk’ - the Cool Ruler in person. Denise Hall
The Savoy Theatre, Patrick Street Cork
8.30 PM
Tickets 22.50 (booking fee may apply)
Available from Plug’d records, Ticketmaster, www.tickets.ie
Friday 23rd (afternoon)
African Vocal Workshop with
N'FALY KOUYATE
Cork School of Music
2 - 4pm FREE
N'Faly Kouyate, charismatic performer and core member of the Afro Celt Sound System will lead a workshop on African polyphonic singing. N’Faly will give an introduction to African polyphonic and polyrhythmic music and to the Kora (African harp), and as a group, participants will create a rich vocal tapestry of interweaving melodies and voices. N’faly joyfully follows in the footsteps of his father, seeing his preordained role of griot or traditional storyteller as both a responsibility and a means of explaining the beauties of the Manding culture of West Africa to the rest of the world.
For more info and booking enquiry contact Nora Hickey
Friday 23rd May
N’faly Kouyate & Dunyakan
Since 1997, N'Faly has been a permanent member of the Afro-Celts, contributing kora and voice to many of their award winning albums and performing live with them on stage throughout the world.
His band, Dunyakan, make music with the traditional instruments of West Africa like the kora, djembe and balafon, but also integrate the 'western' sound of the bass and drums. Their inspiration comes from jazz, traditional West African story-telling, rock and the sweet polyphonies of N'Faly's native Guinea. It's a potent mix and N'Faly is a tireless advocate of his own Manding roots, and West African music in general.
The Manding people populate vast swathes of West Africa. Their culture is one of the richest and deepest in the region and their griots are famed far and wide. The Kouyates of Guinea are a renowned griot clan and N'Faly Kouyate has taken their skill for improvisation and kora playing, inherited from his father, Konkoba Kabinet Kouyate, to new audiences the world over. Andy Morgan
Crane Lane Theatre Phoenix Street Cork
8.00 PM
15 Euros
Available from Plug’d Records & the venue
Saturday 24th May
FeileAfrica African Roadshow with
Oleku Afrobeat from Nigeria 3.00 PM & Motema from Congo 5.30 PM
2 full sets from the busiest and most authentic African bands currently living in Ireland today together on the same afternoon. 2 bands, 12 musicians plus a DJ
Family event with free African food supplied by the New Communities Partnership
Crane Lane Theatre Phoenix Street Cork
3.00 pm – 7.0 pm FREE Entry
Saturday 24th May
AFRONOVA
Sound System With DJ Lex Woo and the AFRONOVA musicians in the mix
Afrobeat, Arabic, Latino & Hard Jazz from this popular Dublin based collective
Crane lane Theatre Phoenix Street Cork
11.00 pm FREE
Saturday 24th May
Niwel Tsumbu & Friends
Acoustic Congolese Jazz/Rumba & Maringa
Sin E Coburg Street Cork
9.30 pm FREE
Sunday 25th May
African Dance Workshop with Aida
Learn West African dance moves
with accomplished dancer and
singer, Aida, originally from the
Ivory Coast. The workshop offers
an introduction to the rhythms and
dance movements of West Africa.
Special introductory 90 minute
class for only €5
Crane lane Theatre Phoenix Street Cork
2.30 – 4.00 pm
Sunday 25th May
Barbecue, Pig Roast with all day P.A. featuring a variety of live acts & DJs including the Children of Soweto
Reggae, African, Latino
Franciscan Well North Mall Cork
Family Event
From 2.00 pm FREE
Sunday 25th May
Afro-Saxon Ma n
Acoustic African Jazz
Sin E Coburg Street Cork
9.00 pm FREE |
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