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Russell Memorial Weekend 2010 Doolin Co.Clare
Friday 26th Feb 2010 to Monday 1st March 2010
Friday
26th Feb 2010
8-00pm
"Open House" concert featuring an array of local
talent at the Russell Cultural Centre
Adm. Free/Donation - all money raised on the night in aid
of the Haiti Appeal.
Saturday
27th Feb 2010
9-30am
Music Workshops Registration at the Russell Centre
10-30am- 12-30pm
Music Workshops
11am
Russell Music: Angela Crotty and friends
at McGanns pub, Adm. Free
2pm
The Russell Concert featuring Fuaim Chonamara
at the Russell Cultural Centre, Adm.
5pm
Russell Music:
Traditional Singing recital, O’Gorman Room, Russell Cultural
Centre, Adm. Free
Sunday
28th Feb 2010
10-30am - 12-30pm
Music Workshops
10-30am
Russell Music: Frank Custy
and friends at McDermotts pub,
Adm. Free
Russell Music: Noel
O'Donoghue and friends
at O'Connors
pub, Adm. Free
1pm
Anniversary Remembrance Mass at Doolin Church followed by
a wreath-laying ceremony at the Russell grave
3pm
Set Dancing: music by Peter Griffin and the Four Courts
Céilí Band, Function Room, Hotel Doolin. Adm.
€10
Monday Night
March 1st 2010
Monday night music sessions in Doolin's
pubs and hotels
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The Russell Memorial
Weekend Committee acknowledges the financial support of the
Arts Council, and Smithwicks
in making the 16th Russell Memorial Weekend possible. |
Further Information:
email: info@michorussellweekend.ie or
telephone +353 (0)65- 7074595, 7074168, 7074328, 7074133
© Russell Memorial Weekend Committee, Doolin,
Co. Clare, Ireland,
; Photos of Micho Russell © Ilsa Thielan,
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 The
Russell Memorial Weekend 2010 |
To mark the 16th
festival commemorating the enormous traditional legacy
of the Russell family from Doolin, the Russell Memorial
Committee hosted an exciting programme of events for a
weekend of music and entertainment from Friday
26th to Monday 1st of March 2010.
Open House - Support
Haiti Appeal
The
festival opened on Friday 26th with a concert at 8-00pm
in the Russell Cultural Centre featuring our local talented
musicians both young and old. In
lieu of an admission fee the audience was asked to support
the Haiti Earthquake appeal; all monies
received on the night went to this worthy cause.
Russell Concert -Fuaim
Chonamara
The Russell Concert
on Saturday 27th Feb which took place between 2pm and
4-30pm saw the sensational traditional music entertainment,
Fuaim Chonamara (Connemara Sound) perform
on stage in the Russell Cultural Centre.
The star of Fuaim
Chonamara was Brian Cunningham. Brian
was also the director of the show. In Fuaim Chonamara
he and a talented group of young musicians including
several members of his own family: Irene, Ashline, Lorraine,
Micheál entertained with music, song, story,
and dance in an inspiring epic about Ireland’s
oldest dance form, Sean Nós.
On Sunday the 28th
Feb at 1pm the Anniversary Remembrance Mass for the Russells
was celebrated in Doolin Church to the accompaniment of
hymns and songs from the Doolin church choir. It was followed
by a wreath-laying ceremony at the Russell grave, with songs
of farewell and tunes in memory of the dead.
Russell
Music
Russell Music events
this year continued to focus on the music, song, and instrumentation
heritage of the Russells with three music recitals beginning
with Angela Crotty and Friends in McGann's Pub on Saturday
27 Feb at 11am . Adm Free.
On Sunday Feb 28th
there were two recitals at 10-30am. Frank Custy and Friends
were in McDermott's Pub, while Noel O'Donoghue and friends
were performing in O'Connor's Pub. Admission was free to
both recitals.
After the Rusell Concert
on Saturday 27th Feb as usual there was an informal traditional
singing recital at 5pm in the O'Gorman Room, Russell
Cultural Centre, Adm Free
Set
Dancing
Set dancing was held
at 3pm on Sunday 28th at the Function Room in Hotel Doolin,
music by Peter Griffin and the Four Courts Céilí Band.
Music
Workshops
Workshops were provided
in the a variety of instruments from
10-30am - 12-30pm on Sat 27th and Sun 28th February.
Music
Sessions
Events for the weekend
also included the Monday night (March 1st) "festival
wrap-up" sessions and there were many informal live
music sessions throughout the weekend in Doolin’s pubs and
hotels.
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