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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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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Ensemble Dagda
Friday 4 December 2020

Ensemble Dagda

Behind Closed Doors is a programme devised by Ensemble Dagda telling a story of the women composers who led flourishing careers in seventeenth century Italy and France.

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December Literary Events
Friday 4 December 2020

December Literary Events

Kevin Barry in conversation with Una Mannion, John Patrick McHugh and Oonagh Montague, three of the contributors to Winter Papers 6.

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