New season of Limerick Jazz workshops to begin
A NEW semester of Limerick Jazz Workshops is starting on Tuesday September 15 and running to the beginning of December. Emerging musicians are invited to get touch if you would like to take part. For anyone who has not previously taken part there is an assessment night on Monday 7, requiring a brief performance and chat with one of the teachers.
“It’s not designed to be an ordeal and we are much more interested in potential and willingness to practice than existing accomplishments!” advises Limerick Jazz chairman John Daly.
As before, the workshops will be on Tuesday evenings at LIT Millennium Theatre from 7pm until 9pm. There will be a one-week break at the time of the schools mid-term and the end date will be the first or second week of December, depending on the availability of Dolan’s for the compulsory Christmas gig.
The format is one of instrumentalists working in ensembles and singers alternating between their specialist group and these ensembles.
“One new thing we hope to introduce this time around is a voluntary jam session in town after the workshops, running from 9.30pm until late”.
You can enquire about costs and so on from John Daly at jonndal@eircom.net.
Limerick artist platforms in Athens
PHOTOGRAPHER/ designer Maurice Gunning has been awarded a grant from the Irish Heritage Council over recent years to concentrate on the documentation of Irish Traditional Boats and Boat Building in Ireland.
Working over the three previous summers Gunning, a Clancy Strand man, has travelled from West Cork to Connemara meeting with many of the boat builders in Ireland. Using traditional medium format film cameras he has created a large archive of the practices associated with boat building.
An “intimate and accurate” series of photographs, including portraiture has now been completed. Earlier this year, Gunning was invited by the Irish Embassy to hold a solo photographic exhibition at the Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece. The exhibition opens this Friday September 4 and will run for two weeks but will come to Ireland in the new year. See website www.mauricegunning.com for detail on the collective works and their movement.
Voices of Limerick to swell
VOICES of Limerick will resume practice on Monday September 7 in Mary Immaculate College at 8pm. This will be a busy season for the choir in that it has a concert in Our Lady Help of Christians’ Church in Milford on Thursday October 15 with well known soprano, Cara O’Sullivan. This concert is being organised by Limerick Lions Club.
“This year, more than ever, male members are needed,” reports PRO Ethel Murphy. “If you can sing and would like to be part of this very successful choir, please contact the choir”.
MIC is on South Circular Road and Monday 7 the appointed hour to present your case and voice for inclusion.
By the Bog of Cats
QUARRY Players Limerick is to hold auditions for its next production By the Bog of Cats, written by successful Irish playwright Marina Carr.
To be directed by John Anthony Murphy, auditions for Carr’s play will take place in Na Piarsaigh GAA Club, Caherdavin on Saturday September 5 and Sunday September 6 between 3p and 6pm. You can contact the group’s secretary by email info@quarryplayers.ie to arrange specific audition times. Male and female actors are required by Quarry playing ages of 18 – 70 years in various parts.
