January Live Night

Tuesday 5 January 2010
Mia Parsons’ Trio














Mia Parsons is a singer whose voice has been described as being like 'chocolate'. A singer/songwriter, her deeply moving music spans jazz/funk and blues. A regular performer at festivals and other musical events, she has worked with many of the great Irish jazz musicians, including Richie, Hugh and Michael Buckley, Greg Felton, Myles, Paul and Anto Drennan, to mention a few.
Mia is joined by the experienced guitarist, Robbie Overson, who is a member of the legendary Irish band ‘Scullion’, with Sonny Condell and Philip King.
Mick O’Neill is the third member of this unique musical venture. A talented musician and songwriter, he brings his keyboard skills to this eclectic band.
The Mia Parsons’ Trio is a fusion of jazz, folk, and Motown.
Not to be missed.


The Two Old Codgers
A Comic Sketch

Frank O’Keeffe and Justin Aylmer are professional actors with a vast number of years experience between them. As the old codgers, their humorous and insightful commentary on life is always entertaining.
Frank is also a playwright and his play ‘The Young Lady Says Yes’ , recently won Category B at the Cork Writers’ Week. Congrats to Frank and all the cast.

Wayne Dunne

Wayne has been playing music since he was a boy, fronting several bands as singer/ guitarist. A talented guitar player with singing voice, he has most recently fronted Feedback, one of Wicklow's most popular bands. Tonight he performs solo, singing songs from Pink Floyd and a host of other greats.
Get there early!

December Live Night

Paul Sharkey

Paul Sharkey trained at the Brendan Smith Theatre Academy (1975 - 1977) then worked with a number of Dublin based drama groups, including the Dublin Shakespeare Society, playing the title role of Hamlet in 1980.

Moving to Wicklow, Paul continued to study speech and drama and, in 1981, he co-founded Harlequin Players with his wife Liz.

For ten years Harlequin Players provided corporate entertainment (Ghost Night & Murder Mystery) for Tinakilly House Hotel and also Dinner Theatre, including shows based on the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce. During the same period Paul compiled and performed shows for the Synge Summer School.

This festive month, Paul will entertain us with ‘Bob Sawyer gives a bachelor party’ from Pickwick Papers. An occasion not to be missed!

www.paulsharkey.com

Jazz duo: Frank Gallagher and Gerry Clarke

Frank Gallagher has been playing blues and jazz in Ireland and Europe since the 70s. He has performed regularly with the likes of Don Baker, Red Peters and Johnny Norris, to mention just a few. In the 80s, he formed the Jitterbug Jug Band with Gerry Clarke. Since

then he has mainly performed solo or in small groups with Gerry Clarke. He has also lectured and written about blues and jazz and worked as a music critic for the Grapevine Arts Magazine.

Gerry Clarke has been performing blues and early jazz since the 70s in Ireland and America, where he worked with some of the important figures of the folk blues revival. He is also a music broadcaster, historian and record producer with an international reputation. His radio documentary, The Golden Age of Irish Recording, won the BCI award for best music documentary in Ireland. The third volume of his Old Time Records label, Piping Rarities, will be launched in the Pipers’ Club on 5 December 2009.

A.K.
A.K. is a singer/songwriter from Waterford. His foray into writing songs started when he was 15 finding himself unable to sing in the key of the popular singers he liked at the time. Since then he has been building up a range of songs, developing his style. Vocally he has been compared to Jack L, Nick Cave and James Hetfield. With a wide range in musical tastes.

November Live Night

Seamus Byrne - The Manach












Seamus Byrne - The Manach
Seamus Byrne is a Celtic singer, flautist and international performer. He performs music for meditation and relaxation and his haunting Celtic Music reaches in to move your spirit. Seamus has released a number of CDs, his latest with John Two-Hawks, the master American Indian musician.
Seamus plays Irish flute, whistles, Apache Spirit flute and bodhran, and loves to sing in the melodic Irish style. We welcome him back to our Live Night.

Timothy Kavanagh

Timothy Kavanagh

Timothy Kavanagh is a twenty five year old artist and musician from Wicklow Town. ‘I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, and picked up percussion instruments, like the bongos and bodhran, during my teenage years,’ he says. He taught himself to play the guitar and has been writing songs ever since.
On the night, Timothy will play some of his own numbers and songs he enjoys singing.

Wicklow Filmmakers Winning Shorts






Wicklow Filmmakers Winning Shorts
Wicklow County Arts Office and County Wicklow Film Commission make available 4 bursaries each year. Last month we brought you the winning short films in this bursary programme and now we bring you the outstanding runners-up.
Best short Film (22-25) Runner-up:
Size 9 – Pink (11mins 27) Dir/Prod: Aisling Gibney
Best short Film (18-21)
Ignorance is Bliss (6 mins) Dir/Prod: Alec Moore

There will be an opportunity to talk with the directors after each film.

October Live Night

Tuesday 6 October

Siobhan Mac Mahon is an Irish Poet, Performer and Playwright resident in Leeds. The live experience of the Spoken Word is at the heart and centre of her work and she has many years of experience delighting audiences with her vital and often comic performances. Siobhan invokes the magic, myths and mayhem of the ancient Irish Goddesses and their modern day counterparts in a funny, passionate and provocative piece of performance - part poetry, part story telling.

Siobhan’s work explores our mystical, cultural and spiritual connection to the earth, the banishment of the Divine feminine and the resultant repression of a joyful sensuality. She has a diploma in Drama from the Drama Studio London, is a member of Equity and a member of National association of Writers in education (NAWE), B.Arch. from Trinity College Dublin. Check her out at: www.youtube.com/themouthofthecave

And hear her poems at: www.myspace.com/siobhanmacmahon

E mail: s.macmahon@ntlworld.com

Wicklow Filmmakers

Winning Short Films

Wicklow County

Arts Office and County Wicklow Film Commission make available 4 bursaries each year.

For the second year running, we are pleased to bring you the winning short films in thisbursary programme.

Best short Film (22-25) was won by The Fall of the House of Lawrence (10m

ins), Director: T.J. O’Grady-Peyton; Producer: Fan Yang.

Best short Film (18-21) was won by two animation films MY Day and On the Quiet. Director: Eamonn O’Neill; Producer: IADT

Dun Laoghaire

A discussion with directors follows each film.

Al O’Donnell’s career in folk music has had many highlights. He accompanied Luke Kelly on RTE TV on Raglan Road and his two solo album’s spawned two top-ten hits. He appeared on ‘The Late Late Show’ and at various festival, sharing the stage with Emmylou Harris and Rory Gallagher. He toured with Tommy Maken, The Chieftons, The Dubliners and many others.

Al’s latest CD, ‘Ramble Away,’ was released in late ’08. We are delighted to welcome this professional musician back to the Space Inside.

SPEAK UP! Performance skills workshop for poets and writers

A workshop with Performance Poet, Siobhan Mac Mahon, in association with Space Inside Arts, explores the skills you need to breathe life into your own words. A fun and enabling workshop promoting confidence in writers to read/perform their own work.
Siobhan draws from her drama training and her extensive experience of performing her own poetry to deliver this lively workshop. Bring along a piece/s of your writing and spend the session learning performance skills to do justice to your words at a reading.
Come prepared to move!

“Gave me a whole new approach to performing my writing”

“Has given me confidence and skills which I will use in the future”

Date: Wed 7th October
Venue: Tinakilly House Hotel, Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
Time: 10am - 4pm
Cost: €45 (includes light lunch)
To reserve your place contact Carol Boland on 0851138367 or email spaceinside@hotmail.com

Visit www.youtube.com/themouthofthecave to see some video clips or
www.myspace.com/siobhanmacmahon to hear some of the poems.

We are now taking a break for the summer. See you on Tuesday 6th October.

June Live Night

Tuesday 2 June '09

Elis Taves













Elis Taves is a well-known Brazilian photographer with a special interest in Ireland. During 2003, she came to Ireland to further develop her photography skills. While here, her exhibition ‘Celebrating Easter in Brazil’ was held in the Chapel of Trinity College sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy and The Chaplaincy of Trinity College.
On returning to Brazil, her exhibition “Ireland” was held in the Irish Embassy, Brasilia. In 2005, she came back to launch her book, City of Children, at Oscar Wilde House, The American College.
Elis is now back in Ireland, living in Bray, working on her new project focused on Irish women,“Behind the Eyes”.
We are looking forward to seeing her wonderful photographs of Brazil.
Visit www.artvitae.com for info on the artist and her photography

Chaos and Harmony

Chaos and Harmony, formerly Song Circle, is a natural voice workshop which meets weekly in Greystones for the sheer joy of singing together. Led by Eileen and Anna, the group will perform a selection of inspiring music and, as a special treat, they will be joined on the night by Eleanor Dawson, an exceptional flautist. Eleanor's unique presentation includes various flutes and their music down through the ages. Chaos and Harmony always welcome new members to their group.

Avoca

Avoca
Sean Olohan and Simon Keogh have been very busy. They had a top 10 hit in the Irish and download charts with their song ‘Saving Lives’ in aid of the RNLI. Since their last visit, they have toured Switzerland twice, releasing 2 songs there. Sean’s recent compositions include songs about local heroes: Charles Barrington, a Bray man who was the first to climb the Eiger mountain in Switzerland, and Wicklow Town’s Robert Halpin, whose claim to fame was the laying of undersea cables. Both these songs are in their final editing. Later this month, the 2 lads will perform at an International Festival in France which will coincide with the release of another new song ‘A French Connection’, to celebrate Wicklow Town’s twinning with Montigney. Always a pleasure to hear them perform.