Bringing it back home
Music fans, mark your calendar for 29 September as an unforgettable night of music and song is planned.
Other Voices is coming to UCC to present a spectacular night of music live streamed from UCC’s striking riverside campus, it was announced yesterday, Wednesday.
UCC’s iconic Aula Maxima, its much loved Honan Chapel, and its Glucksman Gallery will be the backdrops for ‘Other Voices: Bringing It All Back Home’.
Students, staff and alumni of UCC, together with the public, will share in music’s great power to bring people together to celebrate collectively, as the university celebrates a return to campus life.
Hosted by Other Voices presenter MayKay, the line-up includes musicians like Mercury Prize nominee SOAK, Cork-born, London-based rising star Cian Ducrot, a solo set from the magnificent Susan O’Neill, as well as an exclusive performance from critically acclaimed Cork-born experimental artist Biig Piig.
Performances across the UCC campus will include alt-electronic artist and member of the Soft Boy Collective Yenkee, art-punk Cork three piece Pretty Happy, three-part harmony trio Rufous Nightjar consisting of Branwen Kavanagh, Anna Mieke and Zoe Basha, plus a Sunday's Well - a band of UCC traditional musicians led by Caitlín Nic Gabhann, UCC’s artist in residence for 2022.
The celebrations will commence with Other Voices of UCC, a free public concert in the Hub. The Violet Club will headline this concert which starts at 5.30pm on 29 September. Other acts by UCC students and staff in the line-up include Goa, a pipa performer from China, an opera performance by Grace Murphy, a rap performance by Raphael Olympio and a lively session by the UCC Traditional Society. The event is open to all on a first come first serve basis. After the concert, the Other Voices main event will be live streamed on screen in the Hub from 7pm.
South Wind Blows producer, Other Voices’ founder and UCC graduate Philip King returns to his native city and the campus where he began his performing career.
He said: “My own musical expedition began in UCC and was informed in every way by the music that I heard, the people that I met and the wonderful experience that I had as a student in the university. It is the realisation of a long held ambition to bring Other Voices back home to the beautiful campus of the university and to Cork city.”
UCC President Professor John O’Halloran said: “The arts have the power to both inspire and bring people together. After 2 years of the pandemic our community will be brought together, as the most beautiful university campus in Ireland will echo with music and dance. We have exciting plans for the future development of arts and culture at UCC and we are proud to welcome home distinguished UCC alumnus Philip King. We thank Bank of Ireland for their support and hope this event is enjoyed by all both at home and across the world.”
Limited access to the Other Voices: Bringing It All Back Home events in UCC will be facilitated by a ticketed lottery.