ROY HARPER (UK)

DeBarras | Thurs 15th Sept | Doors: 8.30pm

TICKETS: SOLD OUT!

In a career that has lasted longer than most, Folk Icon ROY HARPER (UK) plays a special one off performance at this year’s guitarfest before his sold out 70th birthday bash at the Royal Festival hall in London in November. Roy’s artistic integrity and musical ambition to this day continues to inspire a whole new generation of musicians such as Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes, not to mention his peers, the likes of Kate Bush, Jimmy Page and Pink Floyd! Roy will also appear on Later with Jools Holland Tuesday the 20th September. .....view profile

THE COSMOPOLITAN GUITAR QUARTET (Irl/Congo)

The Parish Hall | Sat 17th Sept | Doors: 7.30pm

TICKETS: €10       Buy Tickets Online

The CGQ is as close as it gets to a classical Guitar Super Group! Comprised of four acclaimed virtuosi of the guitar, jazz guitarist Hugh Buckley, classical guitarist John Feeley, folk guitarist and composer Dave Flynn, and one Congolese guitarist/singer Niwel Tsumbu explore a cosmopolitan world of music, including the traditional music of Ireland, modern jazz, Brazilian Bossa Nova, Congolese rumbas, early and contemporary classical music and new compositions by group members. The CGQ will feature a special solo performance by Steve Cooney also on the night .....view profile

GARY LUCAS (USA)

DeBarras | Sun 18th Sept | Doors: 2.30pm

TICKETS: €15       Buy Tickets Online

From New York Gary Lucas is a Grammy nominated virtuoso of the acoustic & electric guitar. He has played, recorded and managed Captain Beefheart, and wrote and performed with Jeff Buckley - co penning key songs off Buckley’s amazing debut record 'GRACE' (Mojo Pin, Grace) -as well as a list of hugely influential musicians too long to mention. This July saw him perform at the Grammy Museum in LA’s 'Great Guitar Series' further emphasising why he is renowned as the "Guitarist of 1000 Ideas" - The New York Times .....view profile

THE WEST CORK UKULELE ORCHESTRA (Irl)

The Parish Hall | Sun 18th Sept | Doors: 4.30pm

TICKETS: €5       Buy Tickets Online

TWCUO is comprised of 10 disparate musical talents brought together for one purpose: to rock the planet, ukulele-style! Leapfrogging over barriers of genre, time and taste, The WCUO plunders the last 60 years of awesomeness to put on a rip-roaring show full of lush harmonies and death-defying ukulele playing. Only a few month in existence and the WCUO have blown audiences away @ CXSW, Electric Picnic, Kinsale Arts Festival and The Cork Midsummer Festival - Clon Guitar Fest is NEXT! .....view profile