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Bringing Liverpool and Ireland together 10th-20th October 2013 Festival Hotline: 07804 286145 www.liverpoolirishfestival.com Welcome Festival Ticketing Welcome to the 11th Liverpool Irish Festival, by now (to the Liverpool For the first time we have introduced Echo at least) the ‘most successful a multibuy ticketing scheme: purchasers Irish cultural festival in the UK.’ of tickets for at least one Festival event from each of three categories will get Look through these pages and you may ticket discounts and a free Festival Club come to share that view. Better still, Pass. Further details of Your Festival come to the events and enjoy the Festival ticketing and an online application form Club after the shows, a new experience are on the Festival website. we have sought to provide for some time. Tickets for Festival events can be You will see that besides the variety of purchased directly through the Festival activity, from humour to heritage, from Website: www.livepoolirishfestival.com cinema to céilís, the music events are, or online, by phone or in person through dare I say it, stronger than ever this year. our partner, Liverpool Philharmonic’s It’s a hugely impressive line-up that you box office - 0151 709 3789 will not see replicated anywhere else. That’s as it should be in Liverpool, with its unique links with Ireland. Besides films, family days, music sessions Festival Club and workshops, you can choose to unearth some of the city’s historical links Concert over? Play finished? Talked on the bespoke walking tours or talks out? Film got to The End? Come on on the centenary of the 1913 Dublin down to the Festival Club, meet up with lockout. Christy Moore graces the stage your friends and make new ones, and be of Liverpool Philharmonic again as do the entertained by some of Liverpool’s finest brilliant Irish Sea Sessions but there is a players as well as many of the guest legion of newcomers, too, such as Luka musicians taking part in the Festival! Bloom, Pat Shortt, and Sean Keane. The Festival Club will run from 10.30pm As Liverpool novelist Niall Griffiths on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights writes: ‘Ireland runs through Liverpool during the Festival at The Zanzibar Club. like a seam of coal, in the accent, the It is hosted by Alan O’Hare (Thursdays), musicality, the lexical wordplay, the and Ian Prowse (Fridays and Saturdays.) swagger.’ You will find this and much Priority admission is to Festival Club more in our celebration of Liverpool and Pass-holders: these are issued free to Ireland. I hope you will find much to enjoy people joining the multibuy ticketing in this Festival. scheme, or available to purchase for £12, subject to availability, from September 1st. Door admission for non pass-holders will be £5 per night, subject to availability. Interested at performing at the Festival Club? Visit www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/ the-festival-club/ The Zanzibar Club, 43 Seel Street, Liverpool, L1 4AZ, Tel. 0151 707 0633 John Chandler Chair, Liverpool Irish Festival www.thezanzibarclub.co.uk 2 The Festival Club Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night at The Zanzibar Your passport to the best news for the Irish in Britain In stores every Wednesday www.irishpost.co.uk THE Irish Post3 Traditional Liverpool Irish Music Sessions Heritage Walking and Coach Tours Friday 11th October, 9pm Peter Kavanagh’s Walking tour tickets: £7 and £5 (concessions) 2-6 Egerton Street, L8 7LY Coach tour tickets: £10 FREE ADMISSION Booking essential - Book online via the website Or phone 07854 415721 Peter Kavanagh’s is one of Liverpool’s most atmospheric pubs, great ales and great music – who could ask for Join us on these fascinating more? Come along and join in. tours around Irish Liverpool: Monday 14th October, 9pm City Centre North The Edinburgh Saturday 12th October, 2pm 4 Sandown Lane, L15 8HY Meet at St. Luke’s Gardens, Leece Street, L1 2TR FREE ADMISSION Priests, paupers and politics From the glories of Empire to the darkest depth The ‘Eddie’ is the home of Liverpool’s of the Irish Famine, from Braddock’s egg to the top weekly traditional music session – footsteps of O’Connell, Larkin and Parnell, it’s tiny, so be prepared to make new the city’s Irish links are revealed. friends! Come along and join . Saturday 19th October, 10.30pm City Centre South St. Michael’s Irish Centre Sunday 13th October, 11am 6 Boundary Lane Wednesday 16th October, 2pm West Derby Road, L6 5JG Meet at St. Luke’s Gardens, Leece Street, L1 2TR FREE ADMISSION Nuns knaves and nurses As old buildings yield up their stories, many questions St. Michael’s is the base for the local are answered. Who was the white angel and where branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann is she now? Who came for a weekend and stayed – the worldwide organisation dedicated twenty years? What happened to the Bishop’s coach? to the teaching and development of Irish traditional music. Following Scotland Road the Sean Keane concert earlier in the Sunday 13th October, 2pm evening there will be a late session – see Sean and then stay behind, make Saturday 19th October, 2pm a night of it! Come along and join in. Meet at Juvenal Street, L3 3BE Explore Liverpool’s former Irish district, with local experts, encountering tunnels of all sorts, stories of days long gone… and old ghosts. Liverpool Irish Heritage Coach Tour: Larkin’s Liverpool Sunday 20th October, 10am Meet at The Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX A special tour linked to the anniversary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout. The tour will visit the birthplace of Jim Larkin, places in Liverpool associated with him, sites associated with the Liverpool General Strike of 1911, and the Clarence Dock Gates. 4 The Festival Club Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night at The Zanzibar Pádraig Rynne, Dónal Lunny & Sylvain Barou plus Rioghnach Connolly Thursday 10 October, 7.30pm The Epstein Theatre, Hanover House, Hanover Street Tickets £16, £14 when bought as part of the Your Festival Package www.liverpoolphil.com or 0151 709 378 Rynne, Lunny and Barou are three names which, individually, would excite any traditional music fan. As a group they have a chemistry that produces more than the sum of their parts. Dónal has been at the forefront of Irish music over the last 50 years being a founding member of important bands such as Planxty, Moving Hearts and The Bothy Band. Pádraig and Sylvain are founder members of Guidewires, one of the most exciting bands to emerge in Irish music in recent years. Rioghnach Connolly is an Armargh born singer and flautist firmly rooted in her traditional sean-nos background – whilst adding in a touch of Appalachia, Blues and Jazz. For tickets and latest information visit www.liverpoolirishfestival.com 5 Luka Bloom plus Dominic Dunn Friday October 11th, 7.30pm The Zanzibar Club, 43 Seel Street, L1 4AZ Tickets £12 adv, £15 door if available, £10 adv when bought as part of the Your Festival Package Luka has enjoyed more than twenty years of success worldwide. Since the release of one of the all-time Irish classics ‘Riverside’ recorded in 1990, people from all corners of the globe have embraced the true beauty of this remarkable musician. He has a catalogue of quality recordings that any songwriter would aspire to. Luka comes from a family of Irish singers and songwriters and he first went on tour many moons ago with older brother Christy Moore. In 1987 Luka went to the US and toured with The Pogues, The Violent Femmes, Hothouse Flowers and The Cowboy Junkies. He has enjoyed many years of successful worldwide tours since. Dominic Dunn is a 16 year old singer, songwriter and self- taught musician from Kirkdale in Liverpool. He has an innovative ‘…someone whose quest style, heavily influenced is far from over, by jazz, folk, bluegrass but whose comfort in his and ragtime; all fused together with a own skin bears testament contemporary twist. to a road well travelled. And the music’s not half- bad either. Magnificent.’ Siobhán Long - The Irish Times 6 The Festival Club Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night at The Zanzibar From ‘special A Liverpool position’ to Irish Celebration special pleading Saturday 12th October, 10am-4pm Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head, L3 1DG Changing church / Free admission state relations in Ireland since 1937 A talk by Doctor Kevin Bean Saturday 12th October, 10am Once again Liverpool Irish Festival visits the UK’s most popular museum outside of Institute of Irish Studies London. As you enter the museum 1 Abercromby Square you will see the traditional musicians Free admission playing away in the Atrium, you can join a whistle-stop tour of exhibits dedicated to the story of the Irish in Liverpool, see one of Liverpool’s finest Irish dance schools strutting their stuff and watch a performance by children from Our Lady & St. Swithin’s Primary School telling the story of our city’s Irish roots. Our celebration of Irish Liverpool will also include a talk by Tony Birtill - Liverpool born Irish teacher and journalist – as he launches his publication ‘The Irish language in Liverpool’ with new research showing the importance of the Irish language in the history of the city – there are still more events to be announced. We are sure that they will include a ceili for all the family! The tour of the exhibits will be at 11am and will be free. However, it is essential to book ahead as places will be limited. Tel: 07854 415721. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol For tickets and latest information visit www.liverpoolirishfestival.com 7 Christy Moore with Declan Sinnott Saturday 12 October, 8pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Tickets £30, £32.50, £38.50 www.liverpoolphil.com or 0151 709 3789 The iconic Irish singer-songwriter returns to Liverpool Philharmonic Hall for the Liverpool Irish Festival 2013 following sell-out performances in 2008, 2010 and 2012.