Rory Gallagher guitar campaign continues with tribute gig at Cork City Hall 

Sheena Crowley is organising a concert in Cork to help with the fundraising campaign to keep Rory Gallagher's guitar in Cork

Rory Gallagher's iconic Stratocaster is to be auctioned in London.

The announcement of Cork blues-rock icon Rory Gallagher’s guitar going under the hammer for auction in October via London auction house Bonhams has lit a fire under many in the city’s music community, with musicians, politicians and members of the public all calling for its retention in the local public realm. 

One advocate for a community bid on the time-tested 1961 Fender Stratocaster is Sheena Crowley, proprietor of Crowley’s Music Centre and daughter of Mick Crowley, who sold a teenaged Gallagher the instrument for £100 in 1963 - who’s arranged a gig on Sunday September 15, at Cork City Hall, a venue with an immortal place in the hearts of Gallagher fans.