Weekly Gig Guide: 15th-21st July

This week in Cork: Ger Wolfe, O Emperor, Sarah Jarosz, Carriages and more..

The excellent The Cave series return to Mitchelstown courtesy of Cork Opera House this weekend. Ger Wolfe, Mick Flannery, The Young Folk and more all descend the 88 steps for the most intimate of intimate shows. For the full details and an interview with O Emperor ahead of the three days of subterranean sessioning, see here.

It’s all about the “Carri”s mid-week as electro-folksters Carriages play their first Leeside headline show in Gulpd on Wednesday night, complete with special guests Carried By Waves.

*Texan clawhammer queen Sarah Jarosz visits Coughlan’s mid-month (19th) with the IMRO venue of the year providing the perfect platform for the multi-instrumentalist, dubbed by U.S. critics as the “next generation Gillian Welch”. Although heavily steeped in the songs of the past, Austin’s bluegrass belle is prone to nimbly dancing along genre lines having also covered more contemporary compositions such as Radiohead’s The Tourist and more recently Joanna Newsom’s Book of Right-On which appears on 2013’s Build Me Up From Bones.

*Published as part of Incoming with The G-Man in the July edition of Insert Title.

Also going down around town this week:

• Music Workshop featuring: Daniel Martin Moore & more (2pm) in Briery Gap Theatre (Macroom) (Thursday)
• Cormac O’Caoimh’s album launch in The Crane Lane Theatre (Friday)
• Sideproject in The Pavilion (Saturday)
• Country boogie courtesy of California’s Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys (Sunday)

For a day-by-day breakdown of gigs taking place in both Cork city and county over the next seven days see below.

Tuesday, 15th July 
– Jazz Improv (9pm), Amazing Apples (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre

Wednesday, 16th July 
– Lowdown Sessions in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
– Stephen Kelly & The Headhunted in Coughlan’s
– Moo! (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Carriages and Carried By Waves in Gulpd
– Sitting Room Session in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)

Thursday, 17th July 
– Joey Ryan & Band in The Pavilion Bar
– Kocenbauwer, The Bradley Sisters & LeJoe in The Roundy
– Music Workshop featuring: Daniel Martin Moore & more (2pm) in Briery Gap Theatre (Macroom)

Friday, 18th July 
– The Cave: Ger Wolfe and O Emperor in Mitchelstown Caves
– Sarah Jarosz in Coughlan’s
– Cormac O’Caoimh (8pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Maria Doyle Kennedy in Sirius Arts Centre (Cobh)

Saturday, 19th July 
– The Cave: Sam Brookes and Delorentos in Mitchelstown Caves
– Sideproject in The Pavilion

Sunday, 20th July 
– Cork Improvised Music Club in Gulpd
– The Cave: Mick Flannery and The Young Folk in Mitchelstown Caves
– Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys (11.30pm) in The Crane Lane Theatre
– Sunday Sessions (6pm) in The Roundy
– Daniel Martin Moore in De Barra’s (Clonakilty)
– Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys (5pm) in Pine Lodge (Myrtleville)

Monday, 21st July 
– Monday Session in Coughlan’s

  – For more gigs and dates see the overall gig guide here