Weekly Cork Gig Guide: 16th-22nd September

This week in Cork: James Yorkston, Lisa Hannigan, The Mighty Stef and more..

Friday evening is all about culture. For an ever-growing list of what’s happening music-wise around Cork, see here. Absolutely no stranger to these shores, Scottish bard James Yorkston visits Cyprus Avenue earlier in the week with a date in the Caroline Street venue on Thursday evening.

*Beginning mid-month on the 19th, the 10th annual Kinsale Arts Festival kites blue-skywards the following weekend with a mix of music, art, performance and discussion descending upon Cork’s most famous fishing village. For the full programme see www.kinsaleartsfestival.com. Also note Virginia string-band The Hackensaw Boys’ double date in The Crane Lane Theatre (16th & 17th) and local promoters Alliance Promotions link up with long-running Dublin rockers The Mighty Stef for a date in The Crane Lane Theatre (20th).

*Stuffed in there somewhere is the 2014 Clonakilty International Guitar Festival. Strumming and sliding across multiple Clon venues from the 18th until the 21st, the west Cork whammy welcomes a shed-load of wonderfully gifted digit warriors including limber-fingered Leeds local Jon Gomm, capital riff rebels Girl Band, south-eastern skywalkers Band of Clouds and more. As accessible to the expert fretboard fanatic as it is to the chord-curious amateur.

*Originally published in the September edition of Cork monthly culture magazine: Insert Title

Also going down around town this week:

• Screening of 20,000 Days on Earth followed by a Live Satellite Event with Nick Cave in Cork Opera House (Wednesday)
• Sofia Talvik and Nicole Maguire in Ballincollig’s The White Horse (Friday)
• Monthly up and coming artist gathering The KC Sessions in The Crane Lane Theatre (Monday)

For a day-by-day breakdown of gigs taking place in both Cork city and county over the next seven days see below.

Tuesday, 16th September 
– Jazz Improv (9pm) and The Hackensaw Boys (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre

Wednesday, 17th September 
– FILM: 20,000 Days on Earth (followed by Live Satellite Event with Nick Cave) in Cork Opera House
– The Hackensaw Boys (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Mode Music: in El Fenix

Thursday, 18th September 
– Buddy Mondlock in Coughlan’s
– James Yorkston in Cyprus Avenue
– Will Killeen (9pm) and Cookie & The Vaudevilles (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– The Live Room in The Roundy
– Clonakilty International Guitar Festival: Rebecca Collins, Jon Gomm, Girl Band, Band of Clouds, The Lost Brothers & more in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Friday, 19th September 
– CULTURE NIGHT
– Idiot Songs in Coughlan’s
– Sofia Talvik and Nicole Maguire in The White Horse (Ballincollig)
– Clonakilty International Guitar Festival: Jon Gomm, Girl Band, Band of Clouds, The Lost Brothers & more in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
– Liza Flume in Briery Gap Theatre (MacRoom)

Saturday, 20th September 
– The Mighty Stef in The Crane Lane Theatre
– The Altered Hours in Triskel TDC CANCELLED
– Clonakilty International Guitar Festival: Jon Gomm, Girl Band, Band of Clouds, The Lost Brothers & more in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
– Kinsale Arts Festival: Elysian Quartet in St. Mulrose Church
– Kinsale Arts Festival: Foil, Arms & Hog in An Seanachai
– Ger Wolfe in Levis’ Corner house Bar, (Ballydehob)

Sunday, 21st September 
– Cork Improvised Music Club (TBC) in Gulpd
– Sunday Sessions (6pm) in The Roundy
– Clonakilty International Guitar Festival: Jon Gomm, Girl Band, Band of Clouds, The Lost Brothers & more in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
– Kinsale Arts Festival: Louis Stewart & Jim Doherty in Seanachai
– Ger Wolfe in Toons Bridge Dairy, (Macroom)

Monday, 22nd September 
– Monday Music Session in Coughlan’s
– The KC Sessions (8.30pm), Little Mammoths (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre

Coming in September:
19-28th – Kinsale Arts Festival: Lisa O’Neill and more
24th-28th Coughlan’s 2014 Music Festival: Hank Wedel in Coughlan’s
25th – Amen Dunes in The Black Mariah (Triskel)
26th – FILM Metropolis with live score: 3Epkano in Triskel Arts Centre

  – For more gigs and dates see the overall gig guide here