INNI-K
INNI-K
Date and Time: Friday October 10th 8pm
.Inni-K –Still A Day Album Launch Live
Join Inni-K and her band in celebrating the release of her fourth studio album, Still A Day— a powerful new collection of original songs that marks a confident evolution in her sound. Renowned for her luminous voice and creative vision, Inni-K returns with a body of work that is at times quieter, a lower note than before — yet still wild, free, and tuned into moments of pure ecstasy. Ethereal vocals, intricate instrumentation, and the golden threads of a voice discovering new depths—Still A Day guides listeners through experiences lived and transformed,expressed with quiet intensity, wild beauty, and emotional charge.
Her fiddle plays a central role throughout, with bold, gutsy playing that weaves raw energy into the heart of her richly textured arrangements. Expect new songs from the album alongside favourites from her acclaimed contemporary sean-nós record Iníon, all delivered with the distinct artistry that has made Inni-K one of Ireland’s most compelling contemporary voices. A commanding live performer, Inni-K has graced stages from the National Concert Hall in Dublin to Symphony Hall Birmingham and the Irish Arts Center in New York.
Her performances do more than impress — they create a shared energy, drawing audiences into the present in the way only the most truthful music can.
Inni-K (Eithne Ní Chatháin) is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter whose music draws from her extensive background in sean-nós and traditional Irish music, even as she ventures into new musical territories.
Known for her powerful live performances and singular creative vision, Inni-K continues to evolve with each release. The Irish Times has hailed her as “one of Ireland’s most exciting artists.” Join Inni-K and her band in celebrating the release of her eagerly anticipated fourth studio album,'Still A Day' — a fully original collection and her most creatively expansive work to date — on this Irish tour in October and November 2025.
“One of Ireland’s most exciting artists” The Irish Times
“One of the most acclaimed voices in the extraordinary revival of traditional and folk music we have witnessed in recent years.” RTÉ Radio 1, Arena
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Beara Historical society and Castletownbere Development Association Talk
Date and Time: Tuesday August 19th 4pm
Canon Paul Willoughby will give a short history of the church of Ireland in West Cork
Free Admission
Clare Murphy Storyteller 'The Spanking Goddess and Other Discarded Tales'
Date & Time: September 20th 8pm - doors at 7pm
A romp through the untold myths of the Celts with astounding Irish storyteller, Clare Murphy. These are not your regular myths. Expect wicked tales of badass deities, feral fighters, unorthodox sex, hairy bodies, mastery, and goddess-on-goddess battles.
Experience Clare effortlessly exhume the Celtic canon and bring the wild women who never made the cut, into the light. Not for the faint-hearted. Definitely for grown-ups.
“Clare is an astounding storyteller.” - Blindboy
“Masterly storytelling!“ - Culture Whisper
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Conal Creedon 'Come West With The Road With Me' Reading
Date & Time: Early June, Saturday June 14th, 1pm - Free Event
Cónal Creedon is an award winning novelist, playwright and documentary filmmaker. In recent news…
The World Cultural Council in Switzerland announced Cónal Creedon winner of The World Cultural Council Arts Award. He will receive:
The Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts 2024
At McGill University Montreal, Canada
The jury of this prestigious award were impressed by the diversity of Cónal’s creative practice, described as an exploration of the spaghetti bowl of streets in downtown Cork city, Ireland – where his family has lived and traded for over a hundred years.
Read more: Conal Creedon 'Come West With The Road With Me' Reading
Transcendence - Ilse de Ziah, Cello
Date and Time: Sat May 3rd 2025, Doors 7.30pm
Celebrated cellist and composer Ilse de Ziah will present a special live show called "Transcendence" on May 3rd. She will share music from her albums "Transcendence," "Here & There," and her award-winning Irish music film "Living the Tradition." Her much-loved repertoire from her YouTube channel will also be featured. Inspired by nature, history, travel and her explorations of consciousness, her compositions span Irish, world music, film scores, and folk music with passion and classical virtuosity.
https://www.youtube.com/ilsedeziah
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Jim White and Marisa Anderson
Date & Time: Friday 6th September at 8pm
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“Ask the singers with whom Jim White has played during the last 30 years - Cat Power or Nick Cave, PJ Harvey or Bill Callahan - and they might agree no one else makes that battered snare (or, really, the drums) sound quite like White.” - The New York Times
The collaboration between renowned drummer Jim White and acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson is a natural union of two of the most intuitive players and listeners working in music. White and Anderson are each very in-demand as collaborators in no small part because of their mastery, versatility and highly expressive playing. The duo have each amassed an impressive body of work, and remain at the vanguard of their practices due to an insatiable curiosity and delight in exploration of new avenues of expression. Their 2020 debut The Quickening exemplified that daring spirit as an exercise in trust: two musicians who had never performed together before committing those first moments in time to record. 2024’s Swallowtail is a deepening of that trust, White and Anderson completely immersed in the moment, each attuned to the other fluidly moving as wind and water.
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Tara Viscardi & Robert Harvey
Date & Time: Wednesday 21st August at 7.30
Harpist Tara Viscardi and flautist Robert Harvey continue their Beara album launch Irish and UK tour. The project pairs contemporary, original compositions inspired by the Beara Peninsula in the South West of Ireland, with tunes collected and written on the peninsula since the 18th century. It also draws inspiration from Princess Beara, the Spanish Princess who it is said married Owen Mór, King of Ireland, around 120 AD and who gave the area its name.
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Liam Ó Maonlaí
Date & Time: August 14th 8pm - doors at 7pm
We are delighted to welcome Hot House Flowers frontman Liam Ó Maonlaí to Sarah Walker Gallery on Wednesday 14th of August.
Tickets are €32 and available here.
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RNLI: 200 Years of Saving Lives at Sea - Free Public Concert
Pilar Paradela live at Sarah Walker Gallery
Date & Time: Saturday 10th August at 7.30pm
RNLI: 200 Years of Saving Lives at Sea. A free public concert featuring renowned Spanish harpist and singer Pilar Paradela at The Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere on Saturday 10th August at 7.30 pm. This event is generously sponsored by the Spanish Embassy in Ireland. Doors open at 7.00 p.m.
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Maria Doyle Kennedy
Date & Time: Saturday August 3rd 8pm
We are so happy to be welcoming Maria Doyle Kennedy back this summer!
Tickets are €32 and available to buy here.
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Violet Gibson, The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
A play by Alice Barry
Date & Time: Friday July 5th at 8pm
Violet Gibson; The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Written and performed by Alice Barry
Approx 1hr 10mins
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West Cork Chamber Music Festival Fringe Event
Date and Time: Sunday June 30th 12.30pm
Sarah Walker Gallery is delighted to welcome The OCM Academy Quartet, Filippo Ghidoni, Filippo Pedrotti [violins], Clara Costa [viola], Stefano Beltrami [cello], on June 30th as part of West Cork Chamber Music Festival Fringe.
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De Ziah & Date
Date & Time: Saturday April 13th 8pm
De Ziah & Date take a Cello and Guitar on a new journey!
De Ziah and Date deliver a spellbinding musical performance with Ilse de Ziah, cello and Ian Date, guitar. Beautiful renderings of melodies interwoven with captivating improvisations. The duo have an original take on musical styles from around the world creating a deeply emotional journey for the listener. Moments of great musical beauty and a deep love of music and its traditions makes seeing and hearing them live a moving and transformative experience. They will include music from their new debut album Here & There.
This is the show you want to catch!
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Music for A Summer Night
Kenmare Chamber Choir presents Music for a Summer Night
Date and Time: Saturday June 8th 7:30pm
Songs by the Choir, Readings, and Instrumental Pieces by Sarah Groser (viola de gamba), Patrick Goyvaerts (guitar) and other local musicians
ENTRY FREE
retiring collection in aid of a local charity
Christine Tobin with Phil Robson & Neil O'Lochlainn
Songs from Brazil to Beara
Date & Time: March 9th 8pm - doors at 7pm
Christine Tobin vocals, Phil Robson guitar & Neil O’ Loclainn double bass.
Christine celebrates spring with uplifting songs from Brazil to Ireland and lots of places in between. Alongside gems from the Brazilian songbook by Elìs Regina, Antonio Carlos Jobim & Milton Nascimento, you’ll hear Tobin originals, songs by John Prine, Carole King, Willie Nelson and more, all sung in her unique style.
christinetobin.org
https://on.soundcloud.com/dWF6C
https://youtu.be/0tMNfi-DGss?si=Ms5b9Ee4KMNXalmw
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Generation Glas Talk on Climate Change & Sustainability
Date and Time: 18th November 6pm
A talk on climate change and sustainability organised by a group of 6th year students from Beara Community School.
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Maria Doyle Kennedy
Date and time August 5th 8pm
SOLD OUT
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Polymath Maria Doyle Kennedy has sustained a varied and eclectic career in the Arts for more than 3 decades .
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If The River Is Hidden
Date and Time: August 3rd 7- 8:30pm
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If the River is Hidden
A poetry performance by Cherry Smyth & Craig Jordan-Baker
With Niamh Varian-Barry on violin
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Christine Tobin and Phil Robson
Date and Time: 14th July 8pm
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Christine Tobin, 'A Thousand Kisses Deep' (new arrangements of Leonard Cohen and other great songs) with Phil Robson.
A Thousand Kisses Deep is a beautiful re-working of Leonard Cohen songs alongside some choice originals and other favourites. In her own writing, Christine Tobin specializes in idiosyncratic, highly musical poetic vignettes with a strong sense of story, so it's no surprise that she weaves magic with the profound, sensual songs of Cohen, and in her musical settings of WB Yeats and contemporary Irish poet Paul Muldoon. S|he has chosen the Cohen songs from his early 1960s albums through to his 2001 release ‘Ten New Songs’. The live show of ‘A Thousand Kisses Deep’ won a prestigious Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe and the album received rave reviews. (see below)
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West Cork Chamber Music Festival Fringe Event
Date and Time: 27th June 12.30 pm
Free Admission
Aradia Quartet
Playing together since 2020 Aradia are delighted to be returning to West Cork Chamber Music Festival for the second year in a row. They were the 2022 fellowship quartet at Concorda Chamber Music Course.
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POETS MEET POLITICS - A weekend of poetry readings and workshops Hosted by Hungry Hill Writers
September 2022
Saturday 10th
10am – 12 noon Philip Gross poetry workshop €20
5pm Poets meet Politics Poetry Competition Anthology Launch
8pm Readings by Philip Gross & Angela Gardner followed by Open Mic
We are delighted to welcome Philip Gross, judge of this year’s Poets meet Politics competition to the event. Philip is a winner of the TS Eliot prize among many other awards, and is Professor of Poetry at the University of S. Wales.
Renga led by Philip Gross-"Philip will introduce and lead a renga session, the gentlest way of poets weaving words together. No specialist knowledge needed, just a willingness to come with eyes and ears open, to relax and trust what this refreshing process gives us.”
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Fruitcake | Alice Barry
Date & Time : August 4th at 8pm
Price: €15 tickets at door.
Alice Barry of Noggin Theater Company will perform her one-woman show Fruitcake at Sarah Walker Gallery on August 4th. Noggin Theatre Company has toured nationally and internationally and Sarah Walker Gallery is delighted to host her and what promises to be a brilliant show. Alice is quick to point out that although the piece is titled ‘Fruitcake’ and the premise is that of a woman coming to give a cookery demonstration the production is equally loved by men and women aged thirteen and over as it tells the story of growing up on an Irish country farm. It is a dark yet funny tale involving hardship, murder and intrigue but most of all great sacrifice, realisation and love.
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West Cork Chamber Music Festival Fringe Concert
Date & Time: Tuesday 28 June at 12:30. Free admission.
Sarah Walker Gallery is delighted to host The Allora Quartet performing as part of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival.
Formed in 2020, the Allora Quartet is made up of four exciting young musicians from Cork; Megan Chan and Michelle McCarthy on violins, Stephen Kelleher on viola and Michael Murphy on Cello.
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SENTIENT
Date and Time: Friday June 24th 6pm 2022
A live performance installation by Alastair Maclennan and Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
‘Sentient’ is a collaborative performance / installation between artists Alastair MacLennan and Sandra Corrigan Breathnach. This performance / installation combines live performance, sound, performative drawing and sculptural elements, which seek to encapsulate a shared energy through interaction and mark making. This piece will focus on awareness that we are only one of many species of sentient beings, all with an ephemeral nature, living in cyclical existence. Carbon, a fundamental building block of life expressed in the form of charcoal, together with salt, opens connotations of protection and will transform, naturally, a new emerging narrative, opening, releasing and creating further fusions, allowing forms and perceptions to alter… and as the performance unfolds it will echo transitions in nature, moving from darkness into light.
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Liv | Alice Barry
Date & Time: Saturday May 21st
Price: €15 tickets on door.
Love, Marraige, Death, Dating and Daring to try again. A new play written and performed by Alice Barry, Noggin Theatre Company, and directed by Jason Byrne.
Read more: Liv | Alice Barry
Poetry Collections Launch
Sunday 28th November at 6pm
Sarah Walker Gallery would be delighted if you were able to attend the launch of two new poetry collections:
road to the home place, an anthology of poems and images by Hungry Hill Writers and No Country a collection of poetry by Jennifer Russell.
Music, poetry, wine and talk on a November evening. What could be better in a big open well-ventilated space?
Pat Coldrick
Date & Time: Saturday 21st September. Doors open at 8pm
Tickets €15
We are very privileged to host Pat Coldrick Classical Guitarist once again after his recent sell out show at The National Concert Hall in Dublin. Pat is an Irish Classical Guitarist and Composer, who has been working for the last six years in Ireland but has also performed Recitals in Europe, the USA and Russia. Pat has been described as ‘pushing the boundaries of classical guitar’ with his musical interpretations and compositions and has made Classical Guitar exciting, interesting and more accessible to music lovers in general. Through his interpretation of music and by exploring and embracing new technologies he strives to enhance the dynamics of the classical guitar and bring his music to a wider audience both at home and abroad.
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The Whistling Girl
Date & Time: Saturday 7th September. Doors open at 8pm. Tickets €18
“THE WHISTLING GIRL”
The acclaimed Irish duo of singer/actress Honor Heffernan ( Louis Stewart, Neil Jordan’s “Angel”), and composer/keyboard player Trevor Knight (Auto da Fé) present their Cabaret/Speakeasy-style show, “The Whistling Girl”, creating a spellbinding alternative musical extravaganza of song and spoken word based on the lyrics of American wit and feminist icon Dorothy Parker. The original and unique music composed by Trevor transforms the poems of Parker into songs, using her witty, droll and sometimes heart rending lyrics.
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The Vespertine Quintet & Adrian Crowley
Date & Time: Thursday 8th August at 8pm. Tickets €10 on the door
The Vespertine Quintet, known for their sparse, atmospheric music incorporating strings, piano and field recordings, are delighted to be collaborating with Adrian Crowley on a special performance for Beara Arts Festival 2019. The Vespertine Quintet began in 2014 as a way to get through a particularly dark West Cork winter, hosting house concerts and playing the lush, ethereal music of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and Estonian Arvo Pärt.
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Kieran Goss and Annie Kinsella
Date & Time: Friday 2nd August. Doors open at 8pm
Tickets €20
Kieran Goss and Annie Kinsella return to The High Tide Club with songs from their debut duo album ‘Oh, The Starlings'…... songs, stories and harmonies that transport the listener to another world, this is music from the heart, for the heart… A show to make you laugh and cry… A show to move you with its honest beauty… A show not to be missed.
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