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Saturday 7th to Sunday 29th November 2015 England and England Wales No. 4927919 Company by Limited in Guarantee No. Charity 1101657 Registered Leeds Irish Arts Foundation enjoy it… Irish arts, we’re sure you’ll of traditional and contemporary bring you the finest examples We’ve tried our very best to 7th to 29th November 2015. Irish music and arts, from the festival is a celebration of The eleventh Leeds Gathering

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Preview Events Festival start Official Launch Friday 9th October Friday 30th October Saturday 7th November Tuesday 10th November ...... 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Dervish in Concert Hothouse Flowers in Concert Talisk in Concert Official Launch Event plus support plus support from plus support from and Lecture from In association with Saltairelive Rainy Boy Sleep Ellie Coast The Irish Ambassador to ...... Britain, His Excellency, Dervish are one of the greatest bands ever to have Something amazing happens when Hothouse Winners of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, Mr. Daniel Mulhall come out of Ireland. Featuring the distinctive Flowers step onto the stage — something that has Talisk have already made a big impression ...... vocals of Cathy Jordan — surely the finest front- been shaped by over thirty years of singing and on the folk music scene since their formation 2015 is the 150th anniversary woman anywhere in Ireland — and an impressive playing all over the world, yet no two shows have in August last year. of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning instrumental line-up brimming with firepower, ever been the same! There is a sense of musical The group also won a coveted Danny Kyle poet W.B. Yeats. To celebrate this they have been travelling the globe flying the flag adventure; an impulse to reach new heights and Award at 2015 and have we are delighted to welcome the for authentic Irish music for over 20 years. depths in music where the unspoken aim is that performed live in session on BBC Radio 2. Ambassador of Ireland, Daniel Their live shows are characterised by the the band and the audience become one and Mohsen Amini (concertina), Hayley Keenan Mulhall, to the Leeds Irish Centre carefully crafted arrangements, juxtaposing the world becomes a different place for a while. (fiddle) and Craig Irving (guitar) utilise their to deliver a talk on Yeats. infinite subtlety and a thrilling, fiery energy. Hothouse Flowers are a rock n ’roll band, strong individual backgrounds in Irish and The Ambassador has maintained Instantly compelling songs, delivered with Hothouse Flowers are a traditional band, and Scottish music to create an award winning sound. a lifelong interest in Irish literature, Cathy’s exquisitely measured vocals, and Hothouse Flowers are a soul band. Hothouse The trio’s engaging and energetic and Yeats in particular. A keen irresistibly rhythmic sets of tunes combine to Flowers are a jam band with their own homemade performances have already landed them slots historian, he will speak about capture all that is best in Irish music. jam spread into all corners of the bread! at some of Britain’s biggest festivals, including ‘WB Yeats and the Ireland of his time’, Years of creating music together have refined Despite the band’s lengthy career which is Folk Festival, Celtic Connections, using Yeats’s work as a gateway the distinctive Dervish sound, as the playing now heading into its fourth decade there Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival and into late-19th and early-20th century of musicians deeply at home with each other is a sense of unfinished business. Every night they now the Leeds Gathering Festival! Irish history. Ambassador Mulhall merges satisfyingly into one. If ever there was want to play the best gig they have ever played ...... joined the Irish Department of a band where the whole adds up to so much and take the musical risks that can maybe make “Setting scary standards” Foreign Affairs in 1978 and has then the sum of its highly accomplished parts, that possible. There are still songs to be written Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 previously served as Irish Consul- ...... that band is Dervish. and emotions to share. Whether it’s in a tiny club, General in Scotland and as www.talisk.co.uk www.dervish.ie an arena or in a festival field there is a sense that ...... Ambassador of Ireland in Malaysia Tickets: £15.00 the best is yet to come. We are delighted to feature Leeds based singer- and Germany. Victoria Hall, Victoria Road, Saltaire BD18 3JS Tickets: £29.50 | £28 songwriter and recent graduate from Leeds ALL WELCOME www.saltairelive.co.uk Telephone: 0113 224 3801 College of Music, Ellie Coast, who is fast gaining FREE EVENT www.leeds.gov.uk/townhall/Pages/ a following in the Leeds unplugged scene. The O’Meara Suite default.aspx www.reverbnation.com/elliecoastmusic Leeds Irish Centre, York Road Leeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AD Tickets: £8 | £6 concessions Leeds LS9 9NT To book online (additional fee applies): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talisk-in- concert-plus-support-from-ellie-coast- tickets-18117626308 Concert: Concert: Please see www.irisharts.org.uk for hyperlink. Hothouse Flowers Talisk The Inkwell, 31 Potternewton Lane Fri 30th Oct Sat 7th Nov Leeds LS7 3LW www.inkwellarts.org.uk Wednesday 11th—Monday 16th November Wednesday 11th November Saturday 14th November Saturday 14th November Sunday 15th November ...... 7.30pm 11.15am 2.30pm 2.30pm The Leeds Gathering Film Event Traditional Irish Music Acoustic Showcase Acoustic Showcase The Road to God ...... Michael Tennyson (piano accordion) and and Traditional Irish and Traditional Irish Knows Where Patrick Flannery (banjo) ...... Music Session Music Session FREE EVENT ...... The Road to God Knows Where (1988) was a After extensive refurbishment The Bridge Inn The Chemic has established itself as a venue Oakwood Farmers Market, Oakwood Clock, break-through, iconoclastic film for Alan Gilsenan is now the brewery tap for Kirkstall Brewery. for live music and sessions in Leeds. Leeds LS8 2HU and remains a memorable zeitgeist movie of Today we feature performances from Eilish Today we feature performances from our Ireland in a transformational decade. If the 1980s Byrne-Whelehan (fiddle), Dave Wood (guitar) guest musicians Síle Friel (uilleann pipes), Conor was a period of social regression, emigration Saturday 14th November ...... Paul Ruane (fiddle), Deirdre Ruane (tin whistle, Healey (flute), Colm McGonigle (concertina) pm and political crisis, it was also the harbinger of 12.45 button accordion) and Tad Sargent (bodhrán). and Brian Kelly (banjo). seismic cultural shifts that dynamically connected FREE EVENT FREE EVENT Irish people at home and away. Road captures Traditional Irish Music Kirkstall Bridge Inn, Bridge Road The Chemic Tavern, Johnston Street this shock wave spirit in its chaotic ensemble of Workshops Leeds LS5 3BW Leeds LS6 2NG testimony, stark visual imagery and arresting ...... www.kirkstallbridge.co.uk www.thechemictavern.co.uk music track featuring U2, Aslan and the Pogues. Fiddle featuring Paul Ruane and Eilish Byrne- The film was infused with the idea that Ireland Whelehan (Junior and Adult classes available) In association with Leeds Folk Fiddle Group Sunday 15th November Monday 16th November was on the move, on a journey, literally and ...... figuratively, to unknown destinations. www.leedsviolinschool.co.uk/ 1.00pm 8.30pm With an introduction from Chris O’Malley, leeds-folk-fiddle-group Documentary Screening featuring Tad Sargent Leeds University Union Director, Irish Arts Foundation. Bodhrán In association with Leeds Folk Fiddle Group FREE EVENT In association with Honeydrum World Music Folk Society Session www.honeydrum.co.uk ‘The Sligo Masters’ ...... Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre ...... Tin Whistle featuring Deirdre Ruane The Leeds University Union ‘FolkSoc’ organise Bennett Road, Leeds LS6 3HN Duration: 58 minutes. a number of regular and one off events Guitar Accompaniment featuring Dave Wood Filmed on location in Sligo, Dublin and New ...... throughout the academic year. Come down to York, this documentary is the story of three of ALL WORKSHOPS ARE FREE. the Pack Horse in Woodhouse to find out more! the greatest fiddle players ever to grace the We advise early arrival, as places will be filled http://groupspaces.com/folksoc/ Film: traditional Irish music stage, Michael Coleman, The Road to on a first come — first serve basis. FREE EVENT God Knows Paddy Killoran & James Morrison. Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre The Pack Horse, Woodhouse Lane Where ‘The Sligo Masters’ recalls a thriving musical Wed 11th Nov Bennett Road, Leeds LS6 3HN Leeds LS2 9DX industry in the 1920s but one which collapsed during the Great Depression. It recalls the Presentation: indelible mark Coleman, Killoran and Morrison Acoustic: Untold Stories left on Irish music at home and abroad and the Conor Healey Mon 23rd Nov Sun 15th Nov personal tragedies which evoke musical genius and human frailty. FREE EVENT Oblong Resource Centre Acoustic: Workshop: Colm McGonigle Eilish Byrne-Whelehan 197 Woodhouse Street, Leeds LS6 2NY Sun 15th Nov Sat 14th Nov www.oblongleeds.org.uk Tuesday 17th—Sunday 29th November Tuesday 17th November Monday 23rd November Friday 27th November Saturday 28th November ...... 12.15–3.00pm 2.00pm 8.00pm 7.30pm Tuesday Irish Elders Club In collaboration with Cara Dillon in Concert Lynched in Concert ...... Leeds Museums and Galleries Includes bingo and refreshments. plus support plus Support Untold Stories — ...... This Tuesday features music from Irish Arts In Association with Heart Events From , Co. Derry, Cara Dillon has ...... musicians Gerry Brownridge and Kevin The Leeds Irish Community ...... risen to become one of the finest exponents Lynched are a four-piece traditional folk group Mullowney. Contact the Irish Centre for Untold Stories is a community archive project of traditional Irish Music. Together with her from Dublin, Ireland, who combine distinctive details on how to join. undertaken by the Irish Arts Foundation. husband and musical partner, , four-part vocal harmonies with arrangements of Telephone 0113 2480887 Initially funded through the Heritage Lottery she has successfully steered an eclectic musical uilleann pipes, concertina, Russian accordion, www.theleedsirishcentre.co.uk Fund, the project looks at the experiences of the path defying the typical pigeonholes that fiddle and guitar. Their repertoire spans humorous Leeds Irish Centre, York Road, Leeds LS9 9NT emigrant Irish community in Leeds in the second hinder most artists. Dublin music-hall ditties and street-songs, classic half of the twentieth century, particularly their In 2010, Disney asked her to sing the title ballads from the Traveller tradition, traditional Tuesday 17th November settlement patterns and cultural traditions such song to the animated movie ‘Tinkerbell and the Irish and American dance tunes, and their own ...... 9.15pm as music, dance, song and sport. Great Fairy Rescue’. She won ‘Album of the Year’ original material. ‘Cold Old Fire’ was recorded www.untoldstories.co.uk at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, The Meteor in August 2013, and although fundamentally an Traditional Irish Music Session This event features a presentation using the Music Award for ‘Best Irish Female’, and Tatler’s album of traditional Irish song, heavily influenced ...... Untold Stories website and documentary ‘Woman of the Year in Music’. by Irish legends such as Frank Harte, Planxty Featuring local musicians, Harry Scurfield as well live traditional Irish music. Whether she’s singing her native traditional and The Dubliners, subtle traces of the group’s (concertina), Karen Lacy-Roberts (fiddle), FREE EVENT songs of lost love and emigration, or original collective influences can be detected, from PJ Boyle (accordion) and friends. The Drawing Room, Lotherton Hall, Aberford compositions, you will be hard pressed to American old-timey music, ambient techno and FREE EVENT Leeds LS25 3EB find a more emotive and captivating performer. psychedelic folk, to black metal, punk and rock The Old Cock 11–13 Crossgate, Otley LS21 1AA Cara Dillon is at the very top of her field n’ roll. Since then, the group have completed www.theoldcockotley.co.uk Wednesday 25th November and one has the feeling she’ll remain there for a six-week coast-to-coast tour of the United ...... a very long time. States, don’t miss this opportunity to catch them am pm Friday 20th November 10.30 –12.30 Tickets: £18 in Leeds! ...... Noon Irish Elders Coffee Morning www.saltairelive.co.uk Tickets: £10 | £8 ...... Victoria Hall, Victoria Road, Saltaire BD18 3JS Concessions: on the door or online A regular event, this week featuring live Irish Over 55’s Day Club www.heartcentre.org.uk/whatson ...... music. For information contact Leeds Irish Health Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre New people are always welcome to join the & Homes. Saturday 28th November relaxed Irish environment at the Montague ...... Bennett Road, Leeds LS6 3HN Telephone 0113 262 5614 | www.lihh.org pm Burton Resource Centre. Lunch is provided and 1.30 St Anthony’s Parish Hall, Old Lane, Beeston to celebrate the Leeds Gathering Festival this Leeds LS11 7AA Irish Dancing Sunday 29th November week, musicians from the Irish Arts Foundation ...... at Kirkstall Abbey Deli Market pm will deliver a showcase of Irish music...... 2.30 For information contact Leeds Irish Health This popular monthly event features a dancing Traditional Irish Music Session & Homes. display from the Doncaster based Celtic Rose ...... Telephone 0113 262 5614 | www.lihh.org School of Irish Dance. Featuring Tom Keating (fiddle), Cormac Keating Montague Burton Resource Centre FREE EVENT (tin whistle) and friends. Concert: Banstead Street West, Roundhay Road Lynched The Visitor Centre, Kirkstall Abbey, Kirkstall FREE EVENT Leeds, LS8 5RU Sun 29th Nov Leeds LS5 3EH The Manor House, Walkergate, Otley LS21 1HB The Leeds On the road Gathering Festival Guest Educational Musicians Tour ...... Conor Healy is a flute Paul Ruane from Leeds Throughout the festival a player who grew up in originally and now resident team of tutors from the Irish Birmingham’s vibrant Irish in Newcastle has a fluid, Arts Foundation will visit a music scene. Now based highly ornamented ‘Leeds/ number of primary schools in London, he is co-founder Sligo’ style of fiddle playing. in Leeds. This year we are and director of The Trip to This was developed in the working with St. Anthony’s Birmingham Tradfest, an strong session scene in Leeds in Beeston, St. Urban’s in annual festival which takes and on regular visits to Ireland. Meanwood and St. Joseph’s place in late November. Much in demand as a ceili in Otley. He is a tutor for Comhaltas bandleader, he has toured We deliver workshops on and at The Anne and Pat Europe and the Far East. Irish music, dance and arts as Molloy Summer School. Deirdre Ruane is from well as some background on Colm McGonigle is Birmingham and is triple Ireland and the Irish in Britain. originally from Belfast and All-Ireland Champion at If your school would plays concertina and harp. both junior and senior levels be interested in hosting a He is in regular demand on accordion, melodeon workshop please contact as a performer, teacher, and whistle. From Clare and [email protected] recording and session Roscommon stock, Deirdre musician throughout the has played as far afield as UK and Ireland. He has Taiwan and Hong Kong, performed on international as well as most of Europe. television and radio She is in much demand as including a live broadcast a session musician for both from the BBC Proms 2014. studio and live work. Committees Eilish Byrne-Whelehan has Dave Wood was one long been established as a of the first graduates on hugely respected fiddle The Folk and Traditional HughesGerry by player and Is currently musical Music BA Honours degree

director of ‘Feith an Cheoil’ course at the University Eleventh (A Flair for Music’) School of of Newcastle. Based Music based at Haringey in Tyneside, he is now an Irish Cultural and Community established workshop Jig Killavil The Centre in north London. practitioner at The Sage,

Brian Kelly is a stunning banjo Gateshead and a senior player, regarded by many guitar tutor at Durham November 2015 November Saturday 7th — Sunday 29th 29th Sunday — 7th Saturday as being at the very top of his Folkworks Summer School. image:Main game. As well as holding Tad Sargent is a virtuoso numerous All-Ireland Titles, bodhrán player and an Brian has played with a accomplished bouzouki number of prominent bands player. He is frequently

including Shane McGowan in demand for sessions, 7442 278 0113 & The Popes and The Bible gigs and media work. Code Sundays. Tad has played in many Síle Friel hails from great pubs, folk clubs, but her roots are in the concert halls and venues Foundation Arts Irish [email protected] Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area) such as the Royal Albert of Donegal. A fine uilleann Hall, The National Theatre piper, Síle is fast gaining a and the Glastonbury www.irisharts.org.uk reputation in the traditional Festival. He has also has Irish music scene and has appeared with the Punch performed in various venues Bowl Band on the BBC’S and festivals across Europe, ‘Friday Night is music night’, America and Asia. She has and on the soundtrack of appeared as a guest on John Landis’s film ‘Burke and stage with acts such as Altan, Hare’. Tad currently plays The Chieftains, Cherish the with well-known bands Ladies and Solas. CrossHarbour and Ranagri. Management Area South Inner East, North Inner East, Inner Council City Leeds Partners: