Finally getting around to writing about my long weekend in Dublin. It kicked of with sessions in Tower Records with Anthony Furey and The Young Folk on Friday and Cathy Davey on Saturday afternoon.
Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens was the next stop on Sunday for the fourth annual Africa Day festival. Organised by Irish Aid, the Government’s overseas development programme, attracted several thousand people. Queues for the entry gate at Clonmel Street stretched back as far as St Stephen’s Green at one point in the afternoon. Luckily for me, friends were waiting half-way in the queue by the time I had arrived fashionably late! Music was the main attraction at the gardens with Irish performer Jape, Congolese musician Niwel Tsumbu, Dave Flynn, the Amazing Few, the Discovery Gospel Choir and the Newpark Afro-Cuban Orchestra. If you missed it on Sunday, it will swing over to Limerick on the 30th of May.
Sunday night was Communion at Whelans. There was music of all emotions thrown into one amazing session. Rachel Sermanni provided acoustic vocal elegance, Anthony Furey and The Young Folk had us tapping our feet and singing along and The Last Tycoons had us wanting the night to never end. It didn't matter that most of us had work in the morning. It felt like summer and hell we were going to enjoy it!
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