Cork Opera House Proudly Presents

THE REICH EFFECT
A Five Day Festival Marking the 75th Year of
Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer, Steve Reich
Wednesday 27 – Sunday 31 July 2011

FESTIVAL HOT TICKET ALERT

Cork Opera House is proud to present The Reich Effect a five day festival marking the 75th year of the Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Steve Reich. A multitude of performances including the Irish premiere of WTC 9/11 by the Kronos Quartet will take place in Cork Opera House and other Cork City venues from Wednesday 27 through Sunday 31 July. In order to celebrate this seminal event we are offering an exclusive FESTIVAL TICKET for a limited timeframe only. The FESTIVAL TICKET is a special package of 5 for €100 (any 5 festival events of your choice). Book now to avoid disappointment by calling Cork Opera House Box Office on 021-4270022.

The New York Times calls Steve Reich “our greatest living composer” and “among the great composers of the century”, while The New Yorker hails him as “the most original musical thinker of our time”. From his early taped speech pieces to his digital video opera, the American’s path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz.

The Reich Effect will begin with a screening of the film Steve Reich – Phase to Face followed by a public interview with Reich conducted by John Kelly on 27 July in Cork Opera House. Other highlights include the Kronos Quartet (28 July, Cork Opera House), RTÉ Concert Orchestra performing works by Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) and Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros) (29 July, City Hall), London Sinfonietta (30 July, Cork Opera House), Efterklang with Daniel Bjarnason and the Messing Orchestra (30 July, Savoy Theatre), Johann Johannsson (31 July, Triskel Christchurch) and Crash Ensemble with Iarla Ó Lionáird and Gavin Friday (31 July, Cork Opera House).

Crash Ensemble will perform Double Sextet for which Steve Reich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2009.

Local, national and international artists will come together to produce three special programmes of Reich’s music: Counterpoint, Drumming and Phases. These will include two unique dance commissions. David Bolger will dance to Kate Ellis’s Cello Counterpoint and Nic Gaireiss will dance Clapping Music. Both events take place in the Firkin Crane.

The Reich Effect is curated by Mary Hickson, Cork Opera House Chief Executive Officer, and the prize-winning cellist, chamber musician, and musician-in-residence in Cork Opera House, Kate Ellis.

Upon announcing The Reich Effect, Hickson said:

“It is such an honour to present musicians and composers of this calibre in Cork City. It is a wonderful opportunity for Cork to celebrate local talent also. I have always been hugely ‘effected’ by Reich myself since my time studying Music at UCC and it is a real privilege to invite him to Cork. Kate Ellis and I had great fun and deliberation selecting the programme for the festival and we look forward to your reaction and enjoyment over the few days in Cork!”

Budding electronic artists are invited to apply to the Reich Remix Competition. The finalists will be judged and selected by Steve Reich himself, having been shortlisted by a panel of high profile judges including Jim Carroll and Donal Dineen. Reich will also lead a Composition Seminar (places strictly by application).

Other events in Cork Opera House, City Hall, Firkin Crane, Pavilion and Savoy Theatre are currently on sale through Cork Opera House. More events in a variety of venues and outdoor sites will be announced.

The following Reich Event performances are currently on sale:

Wed 27 July, 8pm, Cork Opera House
STEVE REICH – PHASE TO FACE SCREENING
A film by Eric Darmon & Frank Mallet
Followed by Steve Reich public interview with John Kelly
Tickets €20*

Thu 28 July, 6pm, Firkin Crane
COUNTERPOINT
Carolyn Goodwin/Fiona Kelly/Niwel Tsumbu/Kate Ellis
Dance commission: David Bolger (CoisCéim)
REICH: New York Counterpoint
Vermont Counterpoint
Electric Counterpoint
Cello Counterpoint
Tickets €20*

Thu 28 July, 8pm, Cork Opera House
KRONOS QUARTET
REICH: Triple Quartet
The Cave (excerpts)
WTC 9/11 (Irish Premiere)
Different Trains
Tickets €38.50*

Thu 28 July, 10pm, Half Moon Theatre
KALEIDOSCOPE FOLLOWED BY DONAL DINEEN
Cliodhna Ryan and Kate Ellis will curate a special programme focusing on the music that influenced Reich himself.
Tickets €20*

Fri 29 July, 6pm, Cork Opera House
DRUMMING
O’Duo/ Stephen Kelly/ Alex Petcu Colan
Dance Commission: Nic Gareiss
GLASS: Mad Rush
REICH: Music for Pieces of Wood
Drumming Part 1
Six Marimbas
Tickets: €20*

Fri 29 July, 8pm, City Hall
RTE Cork Proms
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Greenwood (Radiohead): Doghouse
Sveinsson (Sigur Ros): Credo
Tickets €30*

Fri 29 July, 10pm, Pavilion, Carey’s Lane
REICH REMIX CLUB
Tickets €10*

Sat 30 July, 6pm, Firkin Crane
PHASES
Ciara Moroney/Michael Joyce/Elizabeth Cooney
Dance Commission: Nic Gareiss
REICH: Come out
Piano Phase
Clapping Music
Violin Phase
Tickets €20*

Sat 30 July, 8pm, Cork Opera House
LONDON SINFONIETTA AND SYNERGY VOCALS
REICH: Music for 18 Musicians
Tickets €38.50*

Sat 30 July, 10pm, Savoy Theatre
EFTERKLANG WITH DANÍEL BJARNASON AND THE MESSING ORCHESTRA
Tickets €25*

Sun 31 July, 6pm, Triskel Christchurch
JOHANN JOHANNSSON ENSEMBLE
Tickets €20* (also available from Triskel)

Sun 31 July, 8pm, Cork Opera House
CRASH ENSEMBLE
REICH: 2 x 5
DENNEHY: Grá agus Bás (featuring Iarla Ó Lionáird)
RZEWSKI: Coming Together (featuring Gavin Friday)
REICH: Double Sextet
Tickets €25*

REICH REMIX COMPETITION
Competition winners will be invited to perform at the Remix Club in the Pavilion on Friday 29th July. For application information please email reich@corkoperahouse.ie . Closing date for submissions is 17 June.

REICH COMPOSITION SEMINAR
Composers are invited to learn directly from the master himself. Places are limited and registration is essential. For an application please email reich@corkoperahouse.ie > .

The festival site is located a 15 minute walk from the town, while camping is available on site with the relevant ticket. Prices start at €59 for two days (without camping) up to €99 for three days with camping.
Full ticket details and booking links here:
www.indiependencefestival.com/?page_id=3

The Cork News spoke to the organisers about this year’s festival and the planning involved:
www.thecorknews.ie/articles/indie-pendent-spirit

The complete festival line-up and further information can be found at the Indiependence website: www.indiependencefestival.com

If you are a musician, DJ, music producer, remixer or Reich aficionado and want to create your own original Reich Effect, then this is for you. The finalists will be judged and selected by none other than Steve Reich, having been shortlisted by a panel of high profile judges including Jim Carroll, Gavin Friday, Stevie G, Nialler09 and Dónal Dineen.

Application packs are available for download here:
http://www.corkoperahouse.ie/sites/default/files/Reich%20Remix%20Competition_1.pdf

Submissions must be received by 5pm Friday 17th June

Further information on the Reich Effect festival from the Opera House website.

“In my generation we tore the wall down, if Brian Eno or David Bowie come to me, and if popular musicians remix my music like The Orb or DJ Spooky it is a good thing”.

– Steve Reich

In 1991, The Orb’s “Fluffy Little Clouds” gave a major pop nod to Steve Reich, whose composition “Electric Counterpoint” served as the foundation for the band’s breakthrough hit. Reich’s entire output — from early tape collages and pioneering work to his later, larger and more intricate works, including collaborations with visual artists — has served as both template and inspiration for a growing legion of electronic musicians and DJs. The ideas that Steve Reich has been mining for the past three decades have inspired not only the sensibilities of today’s youth culture, but also the technological developments that have shaped them.

“From the phase-shifting tape loop pieces of the early to mid-60s, to the later, more ‘composed’ works with their gradually developing cellular rhythmic and melodic structures, an approach which reached its apogee in the late 70s, Reich’s music can be heard echoing across the Electronica spectrum, from the most hardcore German Techno to Aphex Twin, D*Note, Alec Empire, Tortoise, Panasonic…”

—The Wire

See the Indiependence website for the latest full lineup; meanwhile some highlights include:

Bavaria Main Stage
Headliners include White Lies, Alabama 3, Reverend & The Makers and The Coronas

The Cyprus Avenue Arena
Delorentos, Jape & Duke Special

The Monster Mash
The stage will see a mix of rock, electro and DJ’s from mid afternoon to early morning.

The Square
Live music, comedy, DJs, live electro, merchandise, vendors & chillout area.
“…a new addition for 2010, it is an arena within a village within a festival…
a 1,000 capacity tent where you will be able to see just a little bit of everything.”

Tickets priced at €59 (or €79 including camping) are available online from Ticketgroup.

More info at www.indiependencefestival.com

This year’s one day festival sees acts performing over 4 stages:

The Blue Tent
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY AND THE CAIRO GANG
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS
THE FRANK AND WALTERS
MICK FLANNERY
JOHN SPILLANE
NEON FLEA CIRCUS

The Little Big Tent
FUTURE TRAD COLLECTIVE
BRIAN DEADY
O EMPEROR
THE CÉILÍ ALL STARS
SUCKITT & C
JINX LENNON
BRAY VISTA
JOEL PLASKETT
TREMBLING BELLS
TKO
THE SOCIAL SERVICES
FREEZERROOM

De Barras Sitting Room
THE HANDSOME FAMILY
INTERFERENCE
LUKA BLOOM
LOW MOUNTAIN
GAVIN MOORE
LJ HILL (OZ)
TRAMPSTERDAM
DEAD CAT BOUNCE (COMEDY BAND)

An Realt Dearg tent
JOHN DALY
CRAIG SMITH (6TH BOROUGH PROJECT)
SUNDAY TIMES SOUNDSYSTEM
ELECTRIC UNDERGROUND DJ’S
BOOCHY
SEAN GALVIN & ADAM DUNBAR
SHANE BREEN
JOHN COAKLEY
JACK BUCKLEY (MOONS)
BRIAN RING
DR. HERRINGBONE DREAD

Tickets at €55 are available from:
www.tickets.ie
Cork Tickets (ex Plug’d Records), Washington st, Cork, 021 4276300
De Barra’s, 55 Pearse st Clonakilty, 023 36549 Wed 6pm – 11pm.

Camping is available within the festival grounds for €10 per person.
Tickets can be purchased at the gate between 6pm and 9pm on Friday 30th July and from 1pm on Saturday 31st.

More info at www.corkxsw.com and www.myspace.com/corkxsw

Livestock is a one day music festival which aims to support Irish artists through local festivals concentrating on Music and Art.

LiveStock festival has established reputable artists performing alongside new emerging acts offering both the opportunity to showcase there work to a large audience.

Ireland has some of the finest artists in the world and we are very fortunate to be able to play a small part in showcasing this talent.

This is the 3rd LiveStock Festival and it has been host to some of the finest acts in Ireland today including most recently, Delorentos, Codes, The Chapters, Ian whitty & the Exchange, 21Demands, T.K.O., The Hot Sprockets, and more.

LiveStock Music Festival — Saturday 3rd July 2010

The Courtyard Bar, Schull, Co.Cork

Admission €8, Gates 2pm.

www.myspace.com/livestockcork

www.facebook.com/livestockfestival

Read more about it in this article from the Cork Independent.

Southern Gothic: April 28th – May 4th at the Crane Lane Theatre
Free entry for all shows
(with the exception of Boa Morte’s album launch on Saturday – only a tenner, and you get your own copy of the album)

Camille O’Sullivan
with support by Maria Doyle Kennedy at Charles Fort
Saturday 10 July 2010 7:00 PM
Expect fire and ice, pure passion and drop-dead cool as Camille O’Sullivan gets in touch with her inner rock goddess with a new show for Kinsale Arts Week.
Tickets : €35

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
with support by Oleku (Nigeria) at Charles Fort
Thursday 15 July 2010 7:30 PM
This July audiences at Charles Fort can brace themselves for the thrill of experiencing one of THE most exciting live bands of the moment.
Tickets : €28

The Bootleg Beatles
with support by David Hope and the Henchmen at Charles Fort
Friday 16 July 2010 7:00 PM
It’s not the Beatles but you simply won’t believe it! Re-live the sights and sounds of the sixties as the world’s premier Beatle band visit Kinsale with their spectacular stage production featuring all the classic Beatle hits.
Tickets : €35

Kinsale Arts Week is a multi-discinplinary Arts Festival. It commissions new work in all genres and supports both established and emerging artists.

The programme features Local, National, and International work including Visual Art, Theatre, Music, Literature, Film, Dance, Architecture, and Family Entertainment. There is a keen emphasis on community involvement in the Festival with many Users of the community engaged in year-round Festival projects. Local artists also have the oppertunity to showcase their work. The Festival seeks to use all possible performance spaces in the historic town including the harbour, the streets, boats, churches and unusual spaces. The audience at home and from abroad are invited to experience the festival and celebreate creativity.

For more information about the festival and tickets for the above events, see www.kinsaleartsweek.com

From the festival website:

Highlights of the festival so far include;

• Mícheál ó Súilleabháin & Mel Mercier, Máirtín O’Connor, Cathal Hayden and Garry O’Briain in concert with the backing of the Galway based ConTempo String Quartet.
• The première of a new composition by Niall Valley. This piece has been commissioned by RTE lyric fm. Its performance have been grant aided by the Arts Council. The line up included Niall, Caoimhín and Cillian Vallely, Niall Keegan, Ed Boyd & Karan Casey and a String Orchestra.
• Frankie Gavin & De Dannan will arrive back in Cork for a concert with a new line up ; Michelle Lally, Damien Mullane, Mike Galvin and Eric Cunningham and their special guests will be & Dolores Keane.
• John Spillane in a late night concert
• Julie Felix legendary Californian singer.
• Talvin Singh Mercury Music winning Tabla player, & fifth generation Sitarist Niladri Kumar
• A concert at the Douglas GAA Hall, where we ran the first concert of the 1st festival in 1979, featuring Al O Donnell, John & Pip Murphy and Conol o Grada & Colm Murphy.

Other artists confirmed are Andy Irvine, The Lee Valley String Band, áine Whelan & Sarah Corkery, Jackie Daly, Anxo Lorenzo ( Galician Piper) & Diarmaid Moynihan, Steam Packet Co.( Eoin O Riabhaigh, Christy Twomey & Noel Shine), The Four Star Trio, Small Town Talk featuring Hank Wedel & Declan Sinnott, Sliabh Notes, Four Star Trio and the Kilfenora Céilí Band.

Throughout the festival weekend, audiences can sample everything from the very best fiddle, accordion, pipes and flute players in Ireland to a giant open-air Céilí Mór. As usual the festival will feature concerts from the Cork Blues, Pipes’ and singers’ clubs, plus lectures, children’s events and a music trail featuring 40 free sessions.

The main gig list can’t accommodate everything that’s happening over the course of the Jazz weekend, so here’s a few things happening around town, listed by venue…
(This will be updated as further listings come in)

Savoy Theatre, Patrick St
www.savoycork.com
Fri Oct 24th 10pm — Dimitri From Paris takes to the Main stage. Kormac & his Band will be playing the Foyer that same night. Tickets €20

Sat Oct 25th 8pm — Jazz favourite Courtney Pine will take the main stage. Tickets €35
Later that night Savoy Saturdays will take place with Our Resident DJs and Kormac and Co will again take to the Foyer stage. Free entry if you were at the Show beforehand.

Sun Oct 26th 8pm. Danish outfit Jazz Kamikaze will play the Mezzanine stage in the Savoy. Free in for anyone who was at Courtney Pine the previous night.
Sun Oct 26th 11pm — 515 bring Josh Wink to the decks. Tickets €20

Tickets from Plugd records, ticketmaster and tickets.ie

The Pavilion, Careys Lane
www.pavilioncork.com
Thursday 8pm: Sly & Robbie with DJ Bellyman — €22.50/€25
Friday 8pm: Mick Flannery & band — €18.50/€20
Saturday 2pm: Rouge – led by Cork singer Anita Hegarty. Performing also will be the Mark O’Leary Project — Free
Saturday 8pm: Poets of Rhythm, supported by Brian Deady — €22.50/€25
Sunday 2pm: The North Strand Klezmer Band — €10
Sunday 8pm: Sweet Charles Sherrell + Push + The Impressionists — €22.50/€25

The Whisky, Union Quay
Wednesday 9pm: Alistair Roberts — €10
Thursday 9pm: Story of Hair
Friday 9pm: Lights Over Pheonix ,Burma Shade ,James Guilmartin, Class of 1984
Saturday 8pm: The North Strand Klezmer Band
11pm: Manic Mechanic
Sunday 6pm & 10pm: Slummin Angels (Rory Gallagher Tribute)
Monday: Andy and Mark from Futureboy

Reardens, Washington St
www.reardens.com
Thurs 23rd Big Generator 9pm
Fri 24th Soul Driven 9pm
Sat 25th Live DJ’s from 9pm
Sun 26th The Jazz Kings 9pm

Chambers, Washington St.
www.chambersbar.ie
Amadhans & Bodhrans Sat & Sun night 9pm

Scotts, Caroline St
www.scotts.ie
Friday 5-7pm Live DJ with Saxophone Player
Friday 7-9pm Honor Heffernan with The Paul O Donnell Trio
Friday 10pm-12am Car Wash
Friday 12-2am Live DJ

Saturday 5-7pm Live DJ with Saxophone Player
Saturday 7-9pm David Irwins Sunset Lounge
Saturday 10pm-12am ROB STRONG
Saturday 12-2am Live DJ

Sunday 5-7pm Live DJ with Saxophone Player
Sunday 7-9pm Cormac Kenevey with The Paul O’ Donnell Trio
Sunday 10pm-12am ROB Strong
Sunday 12-2am Live DJ

Monday 4-7pm Tony Millner

Clancys, Marlborough St
www.clancys-bar.com
Thursday: Andy Dunne
Friday: Soul Station
Saturday 6pm: Andy Dunne
10.30pm: The Mindbenders
11pm: Goldsoundz @ Liquid Lounge (upstairs)
Sunday 6pm & 10.30pm: The Mindbenders
Monday 4pm: Boogie Band

Twins O’Brien, 32 Marlborough St
Thursday: Chris Percival
Friday: Conor McCarthy
Saturday: Freddy
Sunday: Chris Percival
Monday: Sweet Nectar