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On Saturday May 5, the Belfast based
music website Oh Yeah (www.ohyeah.net)
will launch a special project in association
with the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.
The Van-tastic day is a series of
events over the course of a day designed
to celebrate the art of Van Morrison.
In particular we aim to focus on his
Belfast identity and his roots in
East Belfast. The project will have
five main components;
A bus tour of East Belfast. Leaving
the centre of Belfast at noon, this
tour will take in sites that find
resonance in Van’s songs. The
tour starts at the site of the old
Maritime club then heads over to East
Belfast to view various sites including
Hyndford Street, Cyprus Avenue, the
Connswater River. Orangefield Secondary
School, St. Donards Church, the Old
Castle Picture, the Brookborough Hall
and Big Davy’s Chipper.
Music journalist Stuart Bailie will
act as the tour guide, referencing
the places and their significance
in Van’s songwriting. The Bus
leaves the John Hewitt Bar at 12.00pm.
The tour will take approximately two
and a half hours.
Tickets £5 available from The
Festival Office
Tel: 028 90232403
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A virtual tour. For those who cannot
make the visit to Belfast, there will
be a virtual tour on the Oh Yeah website.
A version of the tour exists online
at www.ohyeah.net/special/vans_eastbelfast/index.html.
An enhanced version to coincide with
the tour will feature film clips of
the sites and related information.
A Van Morrison seminar. Entitled Van
Morrison, Made in Belfast?, this event
will start at 5.00pm at the Unemployed
Resource Centre, Donegall St. The
panel will comprise of Journalist
Sean O’Hagan The Guardian, The
Observer, Martin Lynch Playwright
and Johnny Rogan music biographer
of The Byrds, Morrissey and Neil Young
Tickets
£3 available from The Festival
Office
Tel: 028 90232403
A photo exhibition. The well respected
photographer Alistair Graham (New
Musical Express, Hot Press) will be
showing a series of landscape pictures,
associated with the art of Van Morrison.
This will be on show at the Unemployed
Resource Centre during the seminar.
A musical celebration. A collection
of musicians from Belfast, Dublin
and beyond will play a selection of
Van’s songs. Artists featured
will include Nick Kelly, Susan Enan
and Paul McMordie with many more to
be included.
Tickets £4 available from The
Festival Office
An all day ticket is available from
The Festival office priced £10
Tel 028 90232403
For further information contact Stuart
Baille on 028 9029 9201
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