Keep up to date with our latest West Cork Music news and announcements here, including news from all our festivals, concert series and educational projects.
Our news is organised in categories to help you focus on what you are interested in. Simply select a category to get a listing of articles in that area – for example, all our West Cork Chamber Music Festival news items are listed both here, and under our Chamber Music Festival category.
2020 J G Farrell Award
The J G Farrell Fiction Award is for the best opening chapter of a novel-in-progress by a writer resident in Munster. The prize is a place on the online Novel with Paul McVeigh workshop. The deadline for entries is Friday 5 June.
COVID-19 Plans in the Making
We are glad to be able to announce that streamed and online versions of this summer’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival and the West Cork Literary Festival will replace the live versions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Irish Government’s COVID-19 Roadmap is enabling us to come up with plans for Masters of Tradition in Bantry in August.
READ On Interview - Deirdre Sullivan
The first of these interviews took place on May 4 where a group interviewed Deirdre Sullivan about her book Perfectly Preventable Deaths. Feedback from both the writer and participants was extremely positive.
Festival Memories 6
The early days of last year’s Festival saw an exploration of the natural but rare pairing of Beethoven’s early Opus 18 Quartets with Mozart’s mature set that he dedicated so fulsomely to his mentor Haydn.
Festival Memories 5
The final Coffee Concert in last year’s Festival opened with an irresistibly cheerful oboe melody carolling above the Camerata Øresund strings.
