DJ Yoda played in Cork as part of the Coors Light Peak tour.  I usually keep these music posts over on my main blog but I thought I’d throw up a photo to mark the occasion.  What a great gig!  Have a look on Youtube for some of his tracks, what a genius.

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The wonderful Mr. Toons gets up close and personal with his balloon act at the recent SPWC festival in Cork.  As with the Piano Juggler, I thoroughly enjoyed his show.  Here’s hoping we get more great festivals like this in Cork.

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In June, Cork was lucky enough to sample the delights of the Street Performance World Championships.  This fella, unsurprisingly called The Piano Juggler, was one of the acts I really wanted to see having seen him perform on the final Late Late Show with Pat Kenny.  He didn’t disappoint on the day; the act was thoroughly enjoyable in spite of the threat of rain which isn’t good for his piano apparently!

This was also the first time I used my Pix.ie account where you can see all the photos I took and all the best photos of all the Irish SPWC on Pix.ie by various photographers.  Kudos to the strategy Pix.ie use to get photographers onto their site which allows you upload to a pre-defined group for the event.  They seem to be doing this for other events which is very clever.  And it’s quite a nice site too.  So the problem now is, do I stick with Flickr or move onto Pix.ie?

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Uilleann piper Ian busking on the streets of Cork a week or so ago.  “Why not get paid to practice” is his attitude.  So true!

In another online life, I play the pipes myself with the Cork Pipers Club.

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A woman checks out cinema listings at the North Gate Cinema.  There are a few Gate cinemas around Cork now and this one was closed for ages when a fire in the adjoining apartment complex caused serious smoke damage in the cinema.  Good to see it open again, it’s not as smelly as the much vaunted Mahon Point cinema!

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Gael-Taca had a stand at the Lord Mayor’s Picnic this summer at which the multi-talentend Ó Donnabháin sisters were playing along with another guy on tin whistle.

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Two great pubs for trad music side by side on Coburg Street, Sin É and The Corner House. Both are great for live music if you’re around that neck of the woods.

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Not sure where theses guys are from but there were certainly some colourful outfits at the Festival of the Bull mentioned on yesterday’s post.

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The Cork International Choral Festival kicks off next week.  I was walking by the City Hall earlier so thought I’d get a snap and plug this festival in the process.

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