I will be gallivanting around west Co. Cork and west Co. Kerry for the next four days with my Early Start in Musics class. We'll be out on the Dingle peninsula for most of the trip, with free mornings--the hostel at which we're staying has bikes for hire, so a friend and I may bike down around Dingle during the mornings.
For those of you who are interested, here's the itinerary:
Thursday:
Sliabh Luachra (Sleeve Lochra, SL) Tour (the SL is an important region for trad music)
Lunch in Castleisland towards Abbeyfeale, past Brosna and Mountcollins
Concert in Bruach na Carriage Teach Cheiol, Rochchapel, featuring local SL musicians and
dancers with local historian, Jack Roche
Dinner in Belle Bia, Tralee
Show at the Siamsa Tire Theater, Oileain--the story of the Blasket Islands
Friday:
Dance workshop with Daithi in an Droichead Beag
Blacket Island Center, Dunquin
Lecture on Music on the blasket Islands by Aoife (Eefuh) Granville
Dinner in Dingle
Concert in St. James Church, Dingle
Saturday:
Walking tour of Dingle area with TP O Conchuir
Talk on music in Ireland by Nuala O' Connor
Dinner in Novecento Italian
Session in the Droichead
Sunday:
Depart Dingle to Killarney
via Anascual, Inch, Castlemaine, and Milltown
Free time in Killarney (I'm going to the national park)
Depart Killarney for Cork City, via Ballyvourney and Macroom
A nice long update should occur sometime on Sunday or Monday, so watch for it!
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3 comments:
oo sounds fun!
If it's "educational" it's a field trip.
Those areas of Ireland are beautiful.
I hope you have fun. It looks like I'll be spending Spring 2009 at UCC if all goes well.
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