Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
ArtLinks, a five-county Arts partnership initiative between Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow County Councils and the Arts Council, is pleased to announce details of the successful recipients of the 2008 ArtLinks Bursary Awards – Annual Awards that are open to all creative practitioners who are resident in these counties and who are registered with ArtLinks.ie.
Of the Five ArtLinks Bursary Awards of €8,000 awarded for 2008, two have been awarded to two young talented musicians; Joe Cleere, a contemporary singer/songwriter, from Co. Carlow and Alison Comerford, a violinist Co. Kilkenny.
The County Carlow ArtLinks Bursary recipient, Joe Cleere, is a young full time music artist living in Tinryland and has proven to be innovative, ambitious and self-motivated. In 2006, Joe won the Perri 2fm Song Contest and used the prize money to build his own studio, Fretless Records. Currently he works as a Sound Engineer for Fretless and is on the verge of releasing his debut album East/West, which will be launched in February 2009. The first single will be released in Radio City Dublin on September 13th and in a venue in Carlow. On receiving the ArtLinks Bursary, presented by Carlow Cllr Michael Doran, Cleere says “this award is of huge benefit to me and the album. For example just this week I’ve booked the CD mastering in New York with the same engineer as The Strokes, Sonic Youth, and Bob Dylan, what an opportunity! I’m so glad my two year project can be finished and launched with the attention it deserves”.
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Young musicians and bands, bring your demo’s to a special event designed to cover all aspects of getting ahead in the music industry. This event will be held in two locations to enable as many musicians in the South East to attend.
A panel of local musicians, music promoters and people from the music industry will give informal presentations with loads of practical advice: local musicians/music stars of Kilkenny & Carlowmusic.com Ken McGuire, Ross Costigan, Alan Dawson, with Jimmy Trigger of Itchy Trigger Finger will discuss maximising the internet to build your audience, the best way to get your music produced in a studio, and effective ways of working with the media and getting noticed by record companies. Jimmy Trigger will give details on how he and his band worked with kkmusic.com to produce their first successful EP. Davy Holland (formerly Blue Ghost, now Good Tiger) will talk of the changing world of producing music today, along with special guests, Keith Johnson of IMRO (the Irish Music Rights Organisation) and Angela Dorgan (best known for her work with First Music Contact and the Working Class Heroes festival). Ken Allen, Faction Records, HotPress, will also be joining us. He formerly signed bands for Sony and Polydor, and at this event he will gladly take any music demos from the audience.
*ArtLinks Membership is Free, register now @ www.artlinks.ie! Then reserve a place on the Course Page of the ArtLinks website. Tell all your friends, and lunch is included!
The first event kicks off on Saturday, November 10th in the Parade Tower (Kilkenny Castle), registrations from 9:30am. The second event kicks off on Saturday November 24th in Wicklow, details available on Artlinks.ie. Non-members can attend the day for €20 (well worth the price of admission, including your lunch catered for!) and if you sign up on ArtLinks.ie for free in advance, you’ll get a five euro discount, bringing the cost of the day to €15.
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
If you’re running a music venue in Carlow or happen to work with one then talk to us about your listings! We want to promote music in Carlow and you want to get your music promoted! Drop us a line with your gig listings on a weekly basis and we’ll get them added to the site here!
We also pick out a selection of gigs to cover on the weekly podcast show, if you’re listings are in before Tuesday of each week then you could be featured on that week’s podcast.
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Above: Skylight in November 2005 to Waiting to Explode in May this year.
KilkennyMusic.com celebrates its 2nd birthday today so make sure to swing by and leave some love. As CarlowMusic gets a facelift in the coming weeks and we step up our services and coverage of the Carlow music scene, you can get a sneak preview of things to come over at KKM.
In just two short years we’ve come a long way, but none of it could have happened without the bands and musicians we’ve worked with, and of course the people who use the forums and the website. KKM now has over 1000 registered users, band profiles, downloads and as Resident Photographer I’m proud to announce there is now 1000 photographs in the KKM Galleries.
As far as we are concerned, “we’re only getting started!” but hopefully as KKM continues to grow, we will be able to offer the same services to bands, musicians and music fans from the Carlow area.
I’ll say it again, “change is coming!” but for now it’s back to birthday celebrations. “Happy 2nd Birthday KilkennyMusic.com!”
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Just a heads up that within the next week or so we’ll be bringing CarlowMusic.com more in line with KilkennyMusic.com by terms of appearance. This will mean opening up more areas of the site and kicking off the gallery.
If you’ve got shots from nights out in Carlow you would like to share (gig nights) then get in touch today!
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Art Links announced recently that it will be rolling out €40,000 in bursaries for the South East. To qualify for this bursary, €8,000 of which will be going to Carlow, you need to be registered on ArtLinks.ie.
The team behind CarlowMusic.com are currently involved in the creation of a series of professional development courses with ArtLinks, dubbed ‘Getting Ahead In The Music Industry’. We’re delighted to be working with ArtLinks on this project as we’ll be traveling around the South East, linking up with musicians of all ages to discuss various elements of the music industry in Ireland.
ArtLinks is a NEW Art Resource for creative practitioners, 18 years and over, who are resident in the administrative areas of Co. Carlow, Co. Kilkenny, Co. Waterford, Co. Wexford and Co. Wicklow. ArtLinks is coordinated by the ArtLinks Director working with the 5 County Arts Offices. The ArtLinks programme is based on several years consultation with local creative practitioners, specialist working groups with ongoing research and is supported by the Irish Arts Council.
ArtLinks aims to both provide a range of professional services to all creative practitioners and highlight their creative endeavours in this region to a wider audience.
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
As I’ve just announced on my staff blog, change is coming to CarlowMusic!
In the next few weeks the site will begin to grow much the same as KilkennyMusic.com, which celebrates it’s 2nd Birthday this coming week. New features will include a forum, a gallery and a downloads section. All we need is YOU!
We’ll be looking for bands, musicians and music lovers from the Carlow music scene and area to help all this grow! If you want to promote your band, a new recording, tell people about an upcoming gig, get your stuff reviewed on our staff blogs, have a track played on the SoundSystem podcast, all of this and much more then CarlowMusic.com will be the place to do it!
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
CarlowMusic.com got two new editors this week with Ross Costigan and Michael Keogh taking the reigns on the information outlet for music and arts in Carlow.
Don’t forget that we need your help too in keeping people informed - if you’re gigging in Carlow, planning to gig in Carlow, announcing a DJ night, club night, afternoon session - whatever - then don’t forget to contact us about it!
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
CarlowMusic.com are partnering with new reviews blog, webreviewr.com (reviews by Irish bloggers) to provide music reviews for music lovers and bands in Carlow. If you would like your music featured on webreviewr.com (and subsequent playlisting on the Sound System Podcast), all you have to do is fill out the form over at webreviewr.com and send in your details.
Alternatively, feel free to email CarlowMusic.com directly and we’ll be happy to assist with the reviews process!
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
An announcement regarding the future and development of Carlow Music (CarlowMusic.com) is expected early next week. This will be echoed on KilkennyMusic.com and covered in an upcoming Sound System Podcast, available via iTunes.
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