FUAIM serves up musical feast

For the past five years, University College Cork’s FUAIM concerts and seminars have celebrated the diversity of Irish music and its interconnectedness with further flung forms.

Now, the university is putting together its first festival under the FUAIM ‘brand’. True to UCC School of Music and Theatre’s rich tradition of diversity and experimentation, the event will juxtapose the old and new, the cutting edge and the familiar, in addition to featuring nationally prominent musicians such as Duke Special and Julie Feeney. Several events are ticketed but many are free to the public.

Hup! 3, Friday, Aula Maxima, UCC, 1.10pm: A bringing together of traditional music from UCC and University of Limerick. The joint concert features arrangements by Seán Ó Riada of sometimes obscure traditional pieces, as retrieved from the college’s collection of wax cylinder recordings.