West Cork Arts Centre Is Collaborating with West Cork Mental Health to Host and Support

World Music Day 2015: Regional Events and Contact Information

Cork University Hospital (CUH) Midsummer Festival of Song & Music Schedule of Events Friday 19 June 2015

Welcome to our First Midsummer Festival of Music in CUH, for one fabulous day only, not to be missed! See our fantastic line up below.....and come along on the day or listen in on CUH 102 FM Radio.... www. cuh .hse.ie

Times Performer/s or Venue/s Description Facilitator/s 10:00am - HSE Music 5th floor lecture room, Kick-start your day with a Coffee 12:00pm Facilitator Cork University break style Music Therapy Session. Maternity Hospital Open to all CUH staff...a music (CUMH) workshop facilitated by a music therapist, with a focus on the role music can play in increasing well- being in Healthcare environments. Participants must pre-register.

11:00am - The Dunmanway Day Unit, A choral group formed by Cancer 11:45am Bravehearts The Daffodil Centre, Survivors, this unique choir Choir Oncology Wards & includes family & friends who Clinics support each other through Cancer https://www.face treatment & beyond. They book.com/brave performed for us on Daffodil Day heartscork 2015 & we welcome them back to recruit new members! Bringing joy, hope & understanding to patients, family & staff affected by cancer. 12:00am A local Cork Church of Christ the The daily lunchtime Mass will – Liturgical Saviour & live on CUH feature a local liturgical choir. The 12:45am Choir 102 FM Radio performance will feature live on CUH 102 FM Radio. Tune in from your hospital bed, your home, office, workplace or car to this special meditative mass in song. 1:00pm – Billy Horgan & Staff Dining room Jazz it up at lunchtime with the 2:00pm Friends CUH Gallery Gig resident CUH big band of Jazzy venue sound! After a few years break we warmly welcome back former CUH staff member Billy Horgan & Friends, well know on the local Cork Jazz scene & regular performers on the Guinness International Jazz Festival Circuit. A must see & hear for all CUH staff! Enjoy the food; enjoy the mood, with all that Jazz... From Gramaphone Touring the A gentle reminiscence of the days early till recital hospital...e.g. in the of the Silver Screen, evoking the late Day room 2nd floor & cracking soft sounds of the throughou various locations in Gramaphone era this performance t the day CUH is specifically geared to reach patient & family audiences that might need to rest & sleep & where musicians & musical instruments might not be a possibility. Soft & gentle & soothing & almost silent...Shush..... 2:30pm – Capella’s Fun Paediatrics Department Capella Sherwood & assistants are 3:30pm Facts For Children’s unit, professional musicians & mothers Music! Playroom, School & & know what it is like to Juggle A Workshop Wards Unwell Children & play Music! for Kids & They bring their fun workshop Parents which was designed originally for the Cork Homeschooling Network & encompasses some elements of the CUH Schools’ Music Curriculum for National & Second Level Students. Kids will be encouraged to participate & explore the wonderful world of sound & musical instruments. 3.30pm – The Cardiac Renal Centre From the wonderfully rich Cork 4.30pm Inchigeellagh & (CRC), Main Atrium. traditional musical heritage come a Friends With balconies group of musicians resident in the Traditional spanning over 4 floors famous Inchigeelagh Hotel in Co. Music Group allowing for patients & Cork. A hotel owned & run by Joe staff to view the Creedon & family, they were performance from near instrumental in helping to secure their wards. Or enjoy over 50 artworks from the Br. the music wafting into Ambrose art collection in CUH & your room & office in helped celebrate the launch with this amazing building music, poetry & song. We warmly designed with natural welcome them & HSE staff light & rich natural member Margaret O’Shea for a acoustics from the mixture of music & song with a outset. plethora of musical instruments & musicians! Not to be missed. 4:30pm – The CUH Work 5th floor lecture room A Choral performance by the 5.00pm Place Choir CUMH ‘Workplace Choir of the Year’ runners up 2013). This busy choir 1. www.yo of Healthcare Providers will take a utube.com/watch quick break from delivering babies ? to deliver you songs instead! With a v=OYp4YSSBxJ clever repertoire to match their k name, they will be performing favourite songs such as aptly titled 2. ‘The Rhythm of Live’ & other favourites. https://twitter.co m/workplace cho ir /status https://www.face book.com/workp lace choi

7.00pm ‘The CRC Main Atrium And finally the finale from the until late! Polyphonics Barbershop acapella ensemble. Ireland’s longest established www.the polyph barbershop chorus formed in 1980 onics .com and a member of the Irish Association of Barbershop Singers (I.A.B.S.) ever since it was inaugurated in 1988. The Polyphonics are the current Irish Male Barbershop Chorus Champions having won the crown for the 13th time in October 2014. Also winners of the 2012 National Light, Jazz and Popular Music Competition in the Cork International Choral Festival. What a perfect group to sing us out into the long Midsummer evening & night with their wonderful songs and harmonies.

For more information please contact:

Edelle Nolan Arts Coordinator, Cork University Hospital Campus; Mobile: 086-7714617 Telephone: 021-4922055 Email: [email protected]

Terry Kiely Finance Manager, Cork University Hospital; Telephone: 021-492201; Email: [email protected]

West Cork

For the second year running, West Cork Arts Centre is collaborating with West Cork Mental Health Services to host an exciting free event suitable for all the family on Sunday 21 June, in the courtyard at Uillinn, commencing at 3pm. Last year’s event, which celebrated the legacy of Pete Seeger attracted many local musicians and this year the organisers are again inviting musicians of all styles and the community to come together and celebrate Skibbereen’s contribution to World Music Day.

All are welcome to join in this global celebration of music making and community. Confirmed acts include, The Happiness Ensemble, Clon Drums, Bantry Community Choir, and traditional music with Ann Coughlan and friends. Liz Clark will perform with The Baltimore Singers and there will also be songs from young people participating in Skibbereen Community & Family Resource Centre Youth Music Projects.

There will be an instrument making workshop with Peter Fitzpatrick, of the Happiness Ensemble where children of 8 years and over, will have the opportunity to make and decorate their own customised didjeridoo! An ‘Open Door’ music session, to which all musicians are welcome to contribute, will conclude the event, so if you play an instrument or sing, come along and play your part on World Music Day 2015. For further information, contact: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen: 028 22090 or [email protected]

Waterford Waterford Healing Arts Trust presents a fusion of Irish and Indian music in celebration of World Music Day

In celebration of World Music Day, the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) is delighted to present a unique fusion of traditional Irish and Indian music and dance as part of its Healing Sounds in the foyer programme.

This event will showcase the music of Casóg, a talented group of young musicians who attend music classes through the auspices of Waterford Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann. These classes are organised by its chairman, Martin Forristal, with students receiving accreditation from the London College of Music. The group play an exciting array of instruments including flutes, fiddles, banjos, accordions and concertinas. They will also perform some Irish dancing.

Sandwiched between music and dance by Casóg will be a performance of Indian dance in traditional dress by Indian adults and children who have made Waterford their home. Given that a number of Indian nurses work within University Hospital Waterford, this is an ideal opportunity for the staff of the hospital to celebrate the colourful culture of their colleagues.

This combined performance of Irish music and Indian dance will take place in the foyer of University Hospital Waterford on Monday 22nd June at 1.30pm. The Healing Sounds in the foyer programme is funded by the Arts Council and sponsored by AIB.

For further information contact Alan Browne at 051-842664 or e-mail [email protected]

Galway Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust presents singing duo The Couple. They will perform an acoustic set in the foyer of University Hospital Galway at 6.00pm. Multi instrumentalists, The Couple will play a varied repertoire of both traditional and contemporary music to suit all tastes. The Trust will also present a live performance by Sean Nós Singer Ceara Conway in Unit 4, Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway at 2.00pm. Ceara hails from Carraroe, County Galway; an accomplished artist and singer; residents in the rehabilitation department of Merlin Park are in for a treat.

For further information contact Tel: +353 (0)91 544979 Email: [email protected]

Dublin Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services and the National Centre for Arts and Health will host a music recital from 1-1.40pm on on Friday 19th June in the restaurant in Harold’s Cross in celebration of World Music Day. This free event is open to residents, patients, families and staff. Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services music therapist Martin Fahy will play piano and Dr Hilary Moss from the National Centre for Arts and Health will play trombone. The duo will then repeat the performance at Tallaght Hospital main atrium on Monday 22nd June at 1pm. All welcome.

For further information contact: Hilary Moss [[email protected]]