Spike Cello Fest

SPIKE Dublin’s Alternative Cello Festival
10th- 12th February, 2017
Further Tickets and Info Here

Improvised Music Company are delighted to support Spike Cello festival by commissioning composer and woodwind instrumentalist Seán MacErlaine (This is How We Fly and Quite Ensemble) to compose a piece for cello and electronics which will be premiered by Kate Ellis on the final day of the festival. This more formal lunchtime Sunday Concert on 12th February will be held in the renowned Dublin Municipal Hugh Lane Gallery as part of their popular series of FREE 'Sundays at Noon' concerts.

Festival Programme

Friday 10th February
Opening Concert: Mary and The Pigeons | Lioba Petrie| Vyvienne Long
Main Space, The Workman's Cub, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 | 8pm | €15

Saturday 11th February
Hugh Buckley & Cello Ireland | Rushad Eggleston
Main Space, The Workman's Cub, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 | 8pm | €15

Sunday 12th February
Kate Ellis
Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 | 12 noon | Free event
&
Kevin Murphy | Neil Martin | Open Jam session
Main Space, The Workman's Cub, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 | 8pm | €15

The inaugural Spike Cello Festival is a three-day programme of cello-related events taking place from 10th to 12th February 2017 in various venues across Dublin. This exciting new festival celebrates the diverse use of the cello across non-classical music styles and genres from Jazz, Traditional, Folk, Pop and Rock, to cello yoga and the "cello-clowning" of US cello performance artist extraordinaire, Rushad Eggleston.

The Workman’s Club will be the hub of the festival. The atmospheric downstairs space will house the evening events, starting with an all female line up for the opening concert on Friday 10th with Mary and the Pigeons, Lioba Petrie and Vyvienne Long. Saturday night will see Hugh Buckley and Cello Ireland take to the stage, followed by Rushad Eggleston, and the festival will draw to a close with a Sunday night concert with Kevin Murphy, Neil Martin and a cello jam session.

Tickets cost €15 per event or €50 weekend pass (plus booking fee) available from www.workmansclub.com

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