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Ahead of this year's Another Love Story in August, the Co. Meath music festival has shared the rest of its line-up, including musicians like Lisa Hannigan an.
Cork Midsummer Festival: The show must go on, but how?
9 min read A DYNAMIC BLEND OF OUTDOOR AND ONLINE EVENTS RUNS FROM BREAKDANCING TO DOORSTEP PERFORMANCES AS THE CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL WILL MARRY INGENUITY AND FLEXIBILITY, NO MATTER WHAT THE RULES HAPPEN TO BE
Imagine this. You’re standing in Cork city’s Elizabeth Fort, one of 15 socially distanced people, right in the midst of Alex Petcu’s percussion sextet Bangers & Crash, buried by the raw power and immediacy of live percussion, that “immersive, visceral feeling of the music up at the fort”.
Or this: “You’re standing underneath the Port of Cork sign, facing out to the water, the quay, the city, headphones on”, listening to sounds, spoken word, electronic beats, opera, teasing out the life of Kate “Birdie” Conway. “You’ll be encouraged to dance, if you want to… or it’s perfectly acceptable to stand there. It’ll be very interactive.”