30 September 2008

A Day of Music in Aid of Sirius Arts Centre - Saturday 18 October


SIRIUS ARTS CENTRE
Presents
COBH MUSIC AND SONG MARATHON
In aid of Sirius Arts Centre
Saturday 18 October 10am – 5pm
In the Promenade, Cobh Town Centre


Like many community organisations, Sirius Arts Centre is feeling the pinch of the changing economic climate. We have the opportunities ahead of us that will make our listed heritage building more accessible to the public and allow us to develop projects, creating partnerships between many different community organisations with us in the year ahead, providing interesting and engaging activities for young people and our local community in Cobh and East Cork. But we need your help!

We have a challenging year ahead of us in order to realise and expand our potential. In order to meet our financial targets, Sirius Arts Centre will organise a number of major fundraisers from now and into the year ahead, continuing to bring interesting and engaging arts and cultural activities through our creative programming.

To kick off our efforts for much needed fundraising, the staff of Sirius are organising the Cobh Music and Song Marathon as part of our annual flag-day collection illustrating the opportunities we can provide the local community through engagement in the arts.

A host of local some of the finest singer songwriters from Cobh and beyond will perform in the bandstand in Kennedy Park on Saturday 18 October from 10AM – 5PM, along with many free activities for young people, including face painting and other arts and craft events.

We invite you to come down and celebrate a fabulous collection of local musical talent and colourful events with us! Throughout the day volunteers will be collecting much needed funds to assist Sirius Arts Centre in all its future programmes and running costs.

Bands performing on the day include:
Pete Courtney, Sarah Horgan, Lynda Cullen, The Banter Band, Suede Halo, Feed Back, Luasca, Annie and Isaac, Sian Brown, Kevin & Niamh Murphy, Yvonne O’Grady, Andy Wilson and DJ Ruadhri Aherne.

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW!!!

If you’d like to help or would like to make a donation in advance please contact our offices at

021 481 3790 or via email at: cobharts@iol.ie
Special thanks to Cobh and Harbour Chamber of Commerce.