S|R ::: CALENDAR
Tues 17th-Sat 21st Sept ::: Live Performance Programme
The DIY Ballad Workshop & Top 10 Hit-Parade
Saturday 21st :::
The Dublin-Reeperbahn DIY Ballad Workshop
HOLD 1 ::: 15:00-18:00
[Workshop] - Ticketed
Participants dive into the art of ballad-writing as a DIY living art form, using traditional song forms from known Dublin and Hamburg Balladeers to capture life as it is lived now, in new original work. Led by Sean Fitzgerald with further insights from Jinx Lennon, Rare Witch and others.
Jinxing the Rave: Trad, Porn & Fighting…
HOLD 4 ::: 19:00-04:00 [Doors 19:00]
[All-Night Live Performance Programme] - Ticketed
Top 10 Hits Der Woche: The DIY Ballad Hit-Parade (19:30-20:30) Showcasing new songs and collaborations from the Dublin-Reeperbahn DIY Ballad Workshop.
TRADIATORS: The Tournament (21:00-22:00). The Heros and Heels of Trad-Fighting, with their fans and followers in tow, battle it out with fresh Hamburg faces for the title of reigning TRADIATOR!
Irish artists and musicians explore, expand and satirise folk forms (22:00-04:00). With The Goblinz, Branwen Kavanagh, ‘Punk Urban Poet’ Jinx Lennon*, The Ruskavellas, Trad Porn: Cowboys and Hoors [The Musical!], The Four-Horsemen of The Apocalypse Derby (Death, Famine or War?! Place your bets and win BIG!) with storytelling and céilí-calling by Hugh Cooney, for The Ultimate Trad Wife: Competition and Céilí, spilling into a Trad Rave finale!
* “Ireland's premier punk-poet” The Irish Times