It was revealed to us today by a reporter from Göteborg Tidningen that there are 162 Irish people "folkbokförde" in Göteborg Kommun. Not sure how Irish is defined or how they got the info but there you go. They were looking for someone to interview in their regular series about people from all over the World that live here in Göteborg. Let's see whom they interview!
They contacted us as they had heard about the Samhain concert here on the 31st of this month. The concert is organised by us, GIG, the Irish music society and TIMSIG, and is part of the Planeta festival. In that regard it is on a par with the headline concert of Planeta which is Gypsy Kings! It is a music event in Musikenshus in Göteborg and we would like to see you all there. Performing on the night will be Göteborgs Catherine Hayes band made up of Catherine and her three musician friends, Lasse, Ulf and Pedda. Others playing include Banbridge Towns own Gray Hawthorne who will team up with Trollhattens Biorn Landahl onstage, and Francie Conway who is travelling from Ireland for the weekend. The headline is Brian Burns from Stockholm
who sang Amhrán na bhFiann before the Ireland Sweden match in the Friends Arena in March. He assures us that his music will be more up tempo
than that ;-) The day after Brian and Francie travel to Stockholm to perform
in a smiliar Samhain concert there.
There were a few reasons for the concert happening. First Catherine MacHale said that in Sweden it is thought that Halloween is from the USA so why not expose its Celtic origins. Others agreed we should do something. Then a Samhain concert was being organised in Stockholm anyway and they and asked us if we would be interested to do the same in
Göteborg the day before. Then when we asked Musikenshus if we could hold it there they said yes great and we will include you as part of the Planeta World Music festival too. As we are holding it on a Thursday too it should not clash with any Halloween partys which are held in Sweden on Saturdays.
Tickets for the Göteborg event are 150 krona and can be bought at the door or in advance through Pustervikbiljetter. Andreas from TIMSIG has designed a lovely poster for the event, see below. If you want any to put up let me know. The question has been asked if it is fancy dress? It is not but don't let that stop anyone dressing up as the rubber bandits or the like. It is a music concert, with a few halloweeny and Celtic bits included. There is a full bar and restaurant at Musikenshus. Doors open at 7pm and the music will start soon after.
Hope to see EVERYONE there!
Vi ses,
Eoin
Poster:
http://www.timsig.se/samhain/
Event on Planeta:
http://planeta.se/torsdag/irla
Event on Musikenhus web, scroll down to 31st October.
http://www.musikenshus.se/
Event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/event
Stockholm event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/event
Brian Burns website:
http://www.burnsmusic.net/
Francie Conway website:
http://www.conwaygroove.com/
Great Photo of Catherine Hayes band:
http://www.falufolkmusikodans.
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