Dear Reader –
The last of our live Vicar St videos today - and the first time you ever heard AC/DC on a Theme NIght!
The Big Thing
It’s a great time of the year!
Time to reimagine the Piano with Kieran curriculum - what new songs and features can we add for next year in order to excite our students (and teachers)?!
In the meantime this is the last shout for summer lessons - just a few places left for our 4 and 6-week blocks of classes. 1-1 and shared options available. Perfect for someone looking to try out our unique teaching methods before term proper starts in September. Email pianowithkieran@gmail.com for more info.
Where else but Sligo?
See how many you can recognise from the below photo!
Taken on June 11th 2014 - more than ten years ago now.
It was the night before Theme Night #10 - Burt Bacharach - and a gang of us gathered in the sitting room of our old house in Strandhill to run a few of the tunes.
I’ll always remember the night for two reasons - firstly it was a lovely summers evening and a gang of the neighbours set up camp with a few drinks outside the window and sang, clapped and danced their way through the rehearsal.
Secondly Sinéad Conway has never forgiven me for putting it on the night before her wedding…but thankfully we have managed to move on!
PS in case you were wondering, the pic features myself, Cathal Roche, Aileen Concannon, Eoin Troy, Austin McManus, Niamh Crowley and Dave Flynn.
What’s New?
WERNER HERZOG READS AI POEM: If you’re not freaked out enough already by the possibilities of AI - check these poems out. Listen here from 35 mins…
CLASS (!) NEW SLIGO ROVERS SCARF: Designed by the great Kevin Noone and all proceeds going to the club. Check it out here (modelled by Theme Night favourite Sarah Crummy).
FELIP CARBONELL’S RUMBA EXPERIENCE: Coming soon - as part of the Cairde Festival (6-13 July). A 12-piece band led by Sligo’s favourite Mallorcan Felip Carbonell - more here.
Finally…
Shostakovich described this as ‘a musical portrait of Stalin, roughly speaking’. What a piece of music!!!
Brought to my attention by a wonderful little book called ‘You spin me round' - essays on music’.
Till next time - Kieran.
