What&#8217;s On

Session w/The Quiet Men @ Somerville Arms

Jun 26 @ 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm

Last Thursday of each month

Jul

Tue

The Stopwatch Sessions (open mic) @ Somerville Arms

Jul 1 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

First Tuesday of the month

Our open mic nights are open to all and we welcome and encourage you to come along and have a go! We make sure everyone gets around a 15 minute slot each.

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Jul

Session w/The Quiet Men @ Temperance Café

Jul 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

The second Thursday of every month, The Quiet Men turn Temperance into a Cork bar!

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Jul

Session w/The Quiet Men @ Somerville Arms

Jul 31 @ 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm

Last Thursday of each month

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Tue

The Stopwatch Sessions (open mic) @ Somerville Arms

Aug 5 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

First Tuesday of the month

Our open mic nights are open to all and we welcome and encourage you to come along and have a go! We make sure everyone gets around a 15 minute slot each.

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Wed

Eleanor Dunsdon and Gregor Black @ Temperance

Aug 6 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

ELEANOR DUNSDON & GREGOR BLACK

DANNY KYLE AWARD WINNERS 2024, CELTIC CONNECTIONS

UKHA EMERGING ARTISTS 2024

Eleanor Dunsdon and Gregor Black are a Glasgow-based harp and percussion duo, who met during their postgraduate studies in Traditional Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2022. Blending their respective sounds of Scottish clarsach and Irish bodhrán, along with contemporary percussion and vocals, they form a dynamic and innovative new duo. Drawing on their shared experiences in classical, traditional, and jazz music, they aim to challenge perceptions of the clarsach and push the boundaries of the traditional music scene. The duo’s debut EP, ‘Let No Man’, released on 26th April 2024.

Danny Kyle Open Stage winners at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections 2024, the duo have been invited to perform at the festival next year. So far for 2024 the duo have featured as ‘Rising Stars’ at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, played as FATEA’s featured artists at Southport’s Love Folk Festival, and will showcase at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival in the summer. The duo have also been selected as the United Kingdom Harp Association’s Emerging Artists for 2024, and will give concerts in London and Glasgow in the Autumn. Their music has featured on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Ulster, FATEA’s Showcase Sessions and Celtic Music Radio.

Eleanor and Gregor have been invited to present workshops at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, and for students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In February 2024 they presented a workshop and concert at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland alongside Ukranian bandura player, Anastasiya Voytyuk, showcasing the fusion of their shared musical traditions and the relationship between the bandura and Scottish harp.

Alongside their duo project, Eleanor performs with award-winning Irish alt-folk band, Ranagri, who in 2023 toured across Germany, France and the UK. In recent years she has performed at Manchester Folk Festival as part of the English Folk Expo, Costa Festival in Ibiza, and the World Harp Congress in Cardiff. In 2024 the band will perform at Cropredy Festival, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Bristol Folk Festival and Wickham Festival. Throughout 2023 Eleanor was involved in a collaboration project with singer and musician Tony Christie, touring the UK and recording a studio album to be released in 2024. Eleanor is currently working on a project with students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to commission new works by Scottish composers for an ensemble of classical string quintet, clarsach and fiddle, to be programmed alongside Sally Beamish’s work ‘Seavaigers’ for the same ensemble. This project aims to further explore the interplay between classical and folk repertoire and their place within the concert hall.

Gregor is a percussionist and bodhrán player, steeped in both classical percussion and the musical traditions of Scotland and Ireland. He has gained his BMus Hons in percussion from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance before relocating to Glasgow to receive an MA in traditional music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has performed at the BBC Proms in London, the Edinburgh International Festival, and was recently invited to attend Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop in Boston. Living and working in Glasgow, he runs a series of traditional music sessions in the city as well as travelling often to London to perform with his Irish trio, Green Time Folk, and ceilidh band, Stroma.

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Sat

Luke Concannon (Nizlopi) and Stephanie Hollenberg @ Temperance Café

Aug 9 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

We are delighted to welcome back Luke Concannon for another hometown gig at Temperance. Another very special Saturday matinee.

‘Luke is one of my three main hero’s along with Van Morrison’ Ed Sheeran

Renowned for his magnetic live performances and ‘direct-from-the-heart’ songs, #1 UK chart artist Luke Concannon has something special. Performing with his wife, the classically trained singer Stephanie Hollenberg, the duo present a concert of musical passion and audience participation that will become one of those gigs that live long in the memory. Somewhere between the Celtic soul of Van Morrison, and the deep lyricism of Leonard Cohen.

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Session w/The Quiet Men @ Temperance Café

Aug 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

The second Thursday of every month, The Quiet Men turn Temperance into a Cork bar!

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Mon

Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes @ Temperance

Aug 18 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Over more than a decade LACHLAN BRYAN has built a reputation as a master storyteller, regardless of whether he’s performing solo, fronting his band The Wildes or collaborating with Country Music Icon Catherine Britt in The Pleasures. His songs range from hard hitting social commentary to deeply personal musings, but each contains a unique turn of phrase, dark humour and an ever-present sense of romance.

Lachlan has toured with icons such as Justin Townes Earle, John Hiatt and Shawn Colvin, as well as headlining his own tours and performing at festivals all over the world. He’s released five full length albums with The Wildes, all of which have received critical acclaim, featured in Yearly Top Ten lists and in some cases even charted strongly in the ARIA Official Australian Albums charts.

But it’s as a live act that Lachlan truly thrives. LACHLAN BRYAN & THE WILDES have built a devoted audience at home and are growing overseas thanks to their captivating performances – which have drawn comparisons to artists as disparate as The Bad Seeds and Wilco. As a solo act Lachlan slips effortlessly into troubadour mode, reminiscent of the Texas singer-songwriters who first inspired him.

If you haven’t caught Lachlan on his own or with the band, you may have seen him on the road as piano-player and co-conspirator with his friend Henry Wagons – the two have most recently been supporting Canadians The Dead South in theatres and arenas across the USA, Canada, the USA and Europe. Failing that, you may have heard the multi-award-winning Dream of America album which he co-wrote and produced for Muscle Shoals Southern Gothic Queen Hannah Aldridge. In any of his guises, Lachlan Bryan brings a warmth and wisdom to the stage and studio that wins over fans for life.

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Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes @ Temperance Café