The underground music scene
IT HASN’T been a summer for off-site shows, but Cork Opera House has a solution. Its concerts over the next three days are out of the reach of the elements: 88 steps below ground in the Mitchelstown caves.
It’s the second year the Opera House has gone underground in Tipperary and, unlike last year’s event, which sold out in minutes, tickets were still available at the time of writing. The Cave series begins tonight with folk trio, The Staves, US singer, Daniel Martin Moore and the folk-country duo, Hidden Highways. Things continue in a folk vein on Friday with Sam Amidon, Puzzle Muteson, whose haunting tenor and guitar-plucking should fit right in, and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, the fiddle player. Ó Raghaillaigh appears again on Saturday night, performing with sean-nos vocalist Iarla Ó Lionaird. They will be joined by The Lost Brothers, and what promises to be a fascinating, improvised show by Seán Mac Erlaine and Dónal Dineen.
