A host of music related events will take place throughout Derry this Friday with the staging of Culture Night for the fourth year running.
The Balkan Alien Sound.
Culture Night 2013, in co-ordination with Derry City Council, is a European wide initiative in which local galleries, art spaces, historic buildings, creative businesses and spaces open their doors until late, offering free access to the city’s most important arts and cultural offerings.
An array of events for both music lovers and music makers is set to take over the City of Culture from early in the day.
A live music stage at the Guildhall Square will entertain culture seekers as the Jamhouse kicks off proceedings at 4.30pm with a line up boasting two of the hottest bands in the City of Culture, The Clameens and The Wood Burning Savages, both tipped for international stages according to the industry experts.
Local favourite performers SOLLUS will add dance, costume and lowland pipes until headliners, gipsy folk group, Balkan Alien Sound take to the live stage from 7.15pm onwards.
If it is a combination of music and acting you are looking for, Greater Shantallow’s Community Arts will debut their adaption of musical favourite “Grease is the World,” featuring some of the city’s most exciting new talents.
If you are a rap fan, go along to the Guildhall at 8.30pm for a 17th century rap on the Easter Rising, Partition and Star Wars in a special performance of “Planters, Paupers and Rebels.”
The Nerve Centre will throw open its doors for an “access all areas” while an “open mic” evening session will be set up in next door’s Cafe Nervosa for those who want to perform out of the studio and in front of a live audience.
Music will fill the square at Ebrington with the highly anticipated instalment of Betrand Russell’s dynamic dance and live music show, a dark dramatisation depicting the horrific acts of war in 20th and 21st century.
