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Get your dancing shoes on!
The traditional Irish music group "Ceolta Sí", from Youghal in Co. Cork, will be in Mexico City next week as part of the Tlalpan International Festival of Cultures in Resistence.
Ceolta Sí comprises Daithí Kearney on bodhrán and banjo, Don Brockie on vocals and guitar, Aisling Butler on button accordian and Ciara Lynch on fiddle. The full agenda for the Ollinkan festival is attached. Ceolta Sí will be on stage during the following concerts (please note that I cannot guarantee exact performance times!):
Friday, 4 May
Explanada Delegacional del Centro de TlalpanConcerts start 20:00 hrs (Ceolta Sí to perform at 21:00 hrs approx)
Saturday, 5 May
Explanada Delegacional del Centro de TlalpanConcerts start 17:00 hrs (Ceolta Sí to perform at 19:00 approx)
Saturday, 5 MayBosque de TlalpanConcerts start 17:00 hrs (Ceolta Sí to perform at 21:00 approx)
Daithí Kearney, a lecturer in Irish music at University College Cork, will be giving a conference on "How Irish Traditional Music has Withstood the Test of Time" on Wednesday, 2 May, at 13:00 hrs in: Sala Andrea PalmaCentro Cultural y Académico Ollin YoliztliPeriférico Sur 514Col. Isidro FabelaTlalpan, México DF
The conference will be in English, with a Spanish translation provided, and will include demonstrations of traditional Irish musical instruments. For futher information on Ceolta Sí and the Ollinkan festival, see www.ollinkan.tlalpan.gob.mx.
Hope you can make it - and, as always, bring family and friends!!
Le gach dea-ghuí/Muchos saludos
Emma Leonard
Cultural Attaché
Get your dancing shoes on!
The traditional Irish music group "Ceolta Sí", from Youghal in Co. Cork, will be in Mexico City next week as part of the Tlalpan International Festival of Cultures in Resistence.
Ceolta Sí comprises Daithí Kearney on bodhrán and banjo, Don Brockie on vocals and guitar, Aisling Butler on button accordian and Ciara Lynch on fiddle. The full agenda for the Ollinkan festival is attached. Ceolta Sí will be on stage during the following concerts (please note that I cannot guarantee exact performance times!):
Friday, 4 May
Explanada Delegacional del Centro de TlalpanConcerts start 20:00 hrs (Ceolta Sí to perform at 21:00 hrs approx)
Saturday, 5 May
Explanada Delegacional del Centro de TlalpanConcerts start 17:00 hrs (Ceolta Sí to perform at 19:00 approx)
Saturday, 5 MayBosque de TlalpanConcerts start 17:00 hrs (Ceolta Sí to perform at 21:00 approx)
Daithí Kearney, a lecturer in Irish music at University College Cork, will be giving a conference on "How Irish Traditional Music has Withstood the Test of Time" on Wednesday, 2 May, at 13:00 hrs in: Sala Andrea PalmaCentro Cultural y Académico Ollin YoliztliPeriférico Sur 514Col. Isidro FabelaTlalpan, México DF
The conference will be in English, with a Spanish translation provided, and will include demonstrations of traditional Irish musical instruments. For futher information on Ceolta Sí and the Ollinkan festival, see www.ollinkan.tlalpan.gob.mx.
Hope you can make it - and, as always, bring family and friends!!
Le gach dea-ghuí/Muchos saludos
Emma Leonard
Cultural Attaché