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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As I mentioned the other day, the above installation was put in place for the Culture Night last Friday.  I’m not sure how long they are going to be there but they remind of an ad for Channel 4 when I’m driving into town and see them from across the river.  Does this constitute art for you?

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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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Maybe not exactly the Lord Mayor’s dog but a fine specimen of dog at the Lord Mayor’s Picnic during the summer!

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There were mental queues for all the food stalls at the Lord Mayor’s Picnic in Fitzgerald’s Park during the summer.  This was back in June when we actually had a fine sunny day, not that most people could remember what the sun looks like in Cork!

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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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Last June the car park at Blackpool shopping centre was taken over by a very well run and enjoyable festival, Festival of the Bull. From a page on last year’s festival:

The Festival of the Bulls is a communal celebration of Blackpool; it’s past and present.

The bulls ran through Blackpool for over 300 years. They were the heart of the city which, at its peak, saw over 90,000 cattle a year running through its streets.

I don’t know if it’s happening again this year but I hope it is. We even got lovely weather for it last year!

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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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