News

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.

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Start Your Story: Children's Writers Event
Thursday 21 January 2021

Start Your Story: Children's Writers Event

This beginner's guide to writing and illustrating for children is presented by West Cork Literary Festival in association with Children’s Books Ireland and Sarah Webb.

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Call for YA Writers & Artists
Wednesday 20 January 2021

Call for YA Writers & Artists

Following the success of the previous My Life In Strips activity and recent publication of the comic, West Cork Music is delighted to invite young people to join in the final year of these workshops.

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Announcing Resound
Monday 18 January 2021

Announcing Resound

West Cork musicians raise their voices, with the clear message that the region’s resilient music community is still here.

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Mairéad Hickey and Bruno Philippe
Monday 4 January 2021

Mairéad Hickey and Bruno Philippe

In a special Christmas concert for West Cork Music's audiences, Mairéad Hickey [violin] and Bruno Philippe [cello] recently performed a programme of works by Zoltán Kodály, Maurice Ravel and Finola Merivale at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. A Christmas gift to our audience, this concert is free to view.

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2021 Chamber Music Programme
Tuesday 22 December 2020

2021 Chamber Music Programme

As the Year of the Great Lockdowns draws miserably to a close, we need to look forward to a time when we can get our lives back. This makes it a perfect moment to dream of summer and, most especially, the playing of live music by the great musicians we so missed this year.

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