The Gathering 12th-20th October 2018

Well... 12th—20th October 2018 You’re welcome here kind stranger.

12th—20th October 2018

www.irisharts.org.uk The Leeds Gathering 12th-20th October 2018

Well... You’re welcome here kind stranger.

The fourteenth Leeds Gathering festival is a celebration of Irish music and arts, between the 12th to the 20th October. Our aim is to bring you the finest examples of traditional and contemporary Irish arts, we’re sure you’ll enjoy it… 12th—20th October 2018

Leeds Irish Arts Foundation Registered Charity No. 1101657 Company Limited by Guarantee in England & Wales No. 4927919 12th—20th October The Leeds Gathering Festival 2018 Educational Tour Throughout the festival and during the academic year a team of tutors from the Irish Arts Foundation will visit a number of primary schools in Leeds.

We deliver workshops on Irish music, dance and arts as well as background on Ireland and the Irish in Britain.

If your school would be interested in hosting a workshop, please contact [email protected].

Irish Arts Foundation 0113 278 7442

www. irisharts. org.uk Friday 12th Saturday 13th 9.15 PM 8.45PM Traditional Irish Music Blás in Concert Session Celebrating the Leeds Hosted by Michael Tennyson (piano — Mayo Connection accordion) and Patrick Flannery (banjo) We are delighted to welcome this year FREE EVENT from Foxford, in North County Mayo, Blás, a dynamic young band who hail from a The Old Kings Arms part of Ireland with strong links to Leeds. The Green, Town Street, Leeds LS18 5JB The Leeds Irish community represents members from all over Ireland but there exists a particularly strong connection Saturday 13th with County Mayo. Many of those who emigrated to Leeds post 1950 were from PM 4.00 the towns and villages of the north of IN COLLABORATION WITH LEEDS CCE Mayo in particular. (IRISH MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION) With their sound being described as Instrumental Workshops innovative and highly energetic it is not hard to see why Blás are being described FIDDLE: DAVID DOOCEY / DES HURLEY as one of the must-see bands to come FLUTE: STEPHEN DOHERTY out of Ireland in recent times. The band Suitable for junior and adult musicians at consists of Stephen Doherty on flutes, an intermediate to more advanced level. accordion and percussion, David Doocey REGISTRATION ON THE DAY on fiddle, Anne Brennan on vocals and £ ALL WORKSHOPS ARE FREE Pat Coyne on guitar.

The Claremont Rooms £PWYF (PAY WHAT YOU FEEL) Enterprise & Arts Centre New Headingley Club Bennett Road, Leeds LS6 3HN 56 St Michael’s Road, Leeds LS6 3BG

Sat 13th Oct Blás Sunday 14th Monday 15th 2.30PM 8.00PM Traditional Irish Music The Leeds Gathering Afternoon Film Event An afternoon of traditional Irish Music The Wind That Shakes with special guests flute player the Barley Dee Tasker (née Havlin) from Ballymoney IN ASSOCIATION WITH SCREEN SEVEN in County Antrim, fiddle player Niamh Set during the Irish War of Independence Gallagher originally from County Armagh in the early 1920s. Damien, an Irish medical now living in Cambridge and The Leeds student, is about to leave Ireland to CCE Junior Ceili Band. complete his training in London, but FREE EVENT before doing so witnesses atrocious The Grove Inn brutalities carried out by the Black and Back Row, Urban Village Tans which leads him to join his brother Leeds LS11 5PL Teddy in the Irish Republican Army. Soon however, the peace treaty is signed, and the brothers are pitted against each other.

DIRECTOR: KEN LOACH

£PWYF - SUGGESTED DONATION: £6 TEL: 0113 2626777 WWW.SEVENLEEDS.CO.UK [email protected]

Seven Arts 31a Harrogate Road Leeds LS7 3PD

Mon 15th Oct The Wind that Shakes the Barley Tuesday 16th Wednesday 17th

12.15 pm 10.30am Tuesday Irish Elders Club Irish Elders Coffee Morning Includes bingo and refreshments. This A regular event, this week featuring live Tuesday features music from Irish Arts Irish music. Foundation musicians Gerry Brownridge For information contact Leeds Irish and . Kevin Mullowney Health & Homes on 0113 2625614 Contact Leeds Irish Centre for details www.lihh.org

on how to join on 0113 2480887 St Anthony’s Parish Hall www.theleedsirishcentre.co.uk Old Lane, Beeston, Leeds LS11 7AA Leeds Irish Centre York Road, Leeds LS9 9NT 8.00pm LADIES WHO PUNCH IN ASSOCIATION WITH pm MEND & MAKEDO THEATRE COMPANY 7.30 PRESENTS Tuesday Night Live Corner Boys An evening of traditional Irish Music The time is 1963. The place is a small village with special guests, flute player in Ireland. For the two young women Paul Daly (originally from Ballaghaderreen working in the local drapery shop, the visit in County Roscommon) and Grace Kelly, an outstanding tin whistle player from the vibrant Manchester Irish music scene.

SUGGESTED DONATIONS OF £3-£5 but no one turned away for lack of funds

Assembly Bar & Kitchen Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre Bennett RoadLeeds LS6 3HN

Sun 14th Oct Wed 17th Oct In the Grove Corner Boys Friday 19th

12.15 pm Over 55’s Day Club of American President John F Kennedy to New people are always welcome to join the the country is all important. But for the relaxed Irish environment at the Montague corner boys, who spend their days on the Burton Resource Centre. Lunch is provided village Square, the concerns are different and to celebrate the Leeds Gathering — women, money, devilment and darker Festival. doings fill their empty lives. This week musicians from the Irish Arts John McKenna’s play met with rave Foundation will deliver a showcase of Irish reviews when first staged in 2008, and music. again in 2016. For information contact Leeds Irish And now the Corner Boys are back to Health & Homes on 0113 2625614 tour the UK. This powerful play exposes www.lihh.org the light and dark sides of rural Irish life in Montague Burton Resource Centre the sixties — the carnivals; the sodalities; Banstead Street West, Road the shenanigans, the humour and the Leeds LS8 5RU desperation. This is a play filled with laughter and tragedy — a story of life pm and love in another time and yet a time 7.00 that’s still alive in Irish memory. Traditional Irish Music

WRITTEN BY: JOHN MCKENNA Session DIRECTOR: MARIAN BROPHY Hosted by Ian Pearson (fiddle), ...... Kevin Hurley (flute), Sean Gavaghan (piano accordion) and Chris O’Malley (guitar) Hilariously funny, heartbreakingly sad, but above all, true to life FREE EVENT RTE RADIO 1 The Carriageworks ...... Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD A stark look at small-town Ireland in the sixties

SUNDAY TIMES ......

THE PLAY IS INTENDED FOR AN OVER-16 AUDIENCE. £10 (ADV), £12 (ON THE DOOR), £9 (CONC).

Seven Arts 31a Harrogate Road, Leeds LS7 3PD

Wed 17th Oct Corner Boys Saturday 20th

7.30 pm Buttons and Bows in Concert Because of the band’s connection with the folk music of Canada, they were invited to perform as the opening act at the 1983 world premiere of The Brendan Voyage (composed by Shaun Davey and performed by Liam O’Flynn and the RTE Symphony orchestra) at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Sat 20th Oct Buttons and Bows Four albums later and with tours of the US and Canada, they were received First formed in 1983, this influential enthusiastically by critics and audiences. foursome - made up of Jackie Daly, Their music was featured in the Disney/ Séamus and Manus McGuire and Garry Touchstone film, The Good Mother (1988) O’Briain — began its days with sessions starring Liam Neeson and Diane Keaton. in Kinvara, Co Galway, fuelled by a shared ...... taste for musical adventure. Born in Polished and exuberant County Sligo, Manus and Séamus Mcguire THE WALL STREET JOURNAL grew up in a rich musical environment in ...... the North West of Ireland. Music archivist Jackie Small spoke of With their roots firmly planted in their the band’s “happy juxtaposition of beloved Irish traditional music, Buttons many different moods, from relaxed and & Bows was ready to experiment with mellifluous to biting and humorous”. graceful Quebecois waltzes, lively Danish quadrilles and achingly beautiful Shetland £PWYF (PAY WHAT YOU FEEL) airs. Barriers were broken, energy and The Inkwell humour abounded, jigs and reels were Potternewton Lane given a new dusting of magic. Leeds LS7 3LW

Irish Arts Foundation 0113 278 7442 [email protected] Untold Stories: Gaelic Language The Leeds Irish Group An bfhiul aon Community Gailge agat? Untold Stories is a community The Irish Arts Foundation are archive project undertaken by delighted to announce the the Irish Arts Foundation. continuation of the Irish language Initially funded through the conversation group in collaboration Heritage Lottery Fund, the project with Swarthmore Education looks at the experiences of the Centre. This is open to beginners emigrant Irish community in Leeds as well as those who are a little in the second half of the twentieth more advanced. The group meets century, particularly their at Swarthmore Education Centre, settlement patterns and cultural 2–7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds traditions such as music, dance, LS3 1AD. For further information song and sport. please contact www.untoldstories.co.uk [email protected]

Irish Arts Foundation www. 0113 278 7442 irisharts. [email protected] org.uk

All details are correct as of 1st September 2018. The Irish Arts Foundation reserves the right to amend any programme details.

12th—20th October 2018

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