Roll your sleeves up and get floury! Tracey Jeffery from Tracey’s Farmhouse Kitchen will demonstrate how to make Northern Ireland’s most loved traditional breads – Soda and Potato bread.
Now it’s your turn! You’ll make your own soda and potato breads in the traditional way – no measuring or weighing required!
Your breads will cook on a Griddle and from start to finish they’ll be ready to eat within 15 minutes. You’ll take home 4 farls of Soda and 4 farls of Potato bread, or enjoy them with lunch, hot off the griddle. There’s even a prize for the best breads.
Includes tea / coffee on arrival, bread making experience, followed by dinner (6pm) or lunch (1pm).
Join us for a rehearsed reading with music of a vibrant new play by acclaimed playwright, Brenda Winter Palmer.
Cast
Santa Lucia Forza: Libby Smyth
Fortuna: Maggie Cronin
Musician: Rod McVey
It is 1937. In Italy, Mussolini is at the zenith of his Fascist powers. In Belfast, the celebrated chippy, Lucy’s, is gearing up for the usual Friday night rush. Its owner, Santa Lucia Forza, is not happy. It is fifty years since she escaped hunger to find a better life in Belfast. But, now that Il Duce has made Italy great again, she longs to go home. Her husband, street musician Antonio, has other ideas.
Santa Lucia’s widowed daughter Fortuna is refusing to help in the shop. Nor will she find other employment. Fortuna’s son Pietro, to his Nonna’s dismay, is more interested in hurling than in learning Italian. All Santa Lucia’s woes come to a head when she tries to set her daughter up as a fortune teller. In 1937. it is probably best not to see too far ahead.
This play pays tribute to the Italian economic migrants who flocked to Ireland from the 1880s onwards. They have contributed richly to cultural and economic life here as vendors of fish suppers, ‘99s’, pokes and sliders as well as bringing us their skills as musicians and exquisite terrazzo tilers. They were ill-rewarded when Mussolini entered Hitler’s War in 1940 and Italian residents became enemy aliens overnight.
Brenda Winter Palmer is the author of the First World War drama, Medal in the Drawer, and the highly successful ‘show band wives’ story, Keep Telling Me Lies. Her most recent play, RSVP: Typhoid Mary, is slated with Brassneck Theatre Company for production in 2026.
Running time: 70 minutes. There will be an opportunity for discussion and questions after the performance.
Age: 14+
Photo: La Famiglia Marcantonio (Marken). With thanks to the Marken family for permission to use the photograph. Thanks too to the members of Victor’s Cafe Facebook page for all their help.
With special guests: Barbara Dickson, Nick Holland, Eilidh Patterson, Ronnie Greer, Brigid O’Neill, Ciaran Lavery, *Ken Haddock, Clive Culbertsonand superb house band, MD – Matt McGinn
In the early 2000’s, much-loved and missed BBC presenter Gerry Anderson began to play a song called ‘Sailortown’ on an almost daily rotation. This beautifully simple song quickly found a home in the hearts of Anderson’s audience as each listen brought them on a wonderful journey of love and nostalgia with the backdrop of the Troubles and a thriving music scene.
A love affair had begun between the people of Northern Ireland and prolific songwriter and singer, Anthony Toner.
‘Without Gerry’s support at that early stage,’ says Anthony, ‘I’m honestly not sure if I would ever have been able to create an audience. Certainly not as quickly as I did, with that song.’
Some decades, and over a dozen albums later, Anthony has reached milestones in his career, and now his life…
…Anthony Toner turns 60.
Reflecting on this incredible journey Anthony is incredibly proud of not only his vast body of work but the friends and musical collaborators he has met along the way.
‘As a teenager, I watched bands at work and dreamed of being part of a musical ‘family’… so the relationships I’ve built with so many immensely talented musicians has become a joy to me.’
On this very special evening we will celebrate the work and the relationships with Anthony, an outstanding house band and a vast array of special guests who will enjoy exploring and interpreting the immense Anthony Toner catalogue.
Join us for this special one-off event and celebration like no other.
*Due to scheduling, Ken Haddock will be replaced by Ciara O’Neill on the Saturday 10 May performance
If you have access needs, feel free to email Aoife at aoife@cqaf.com for more info—we’re happy to help!
For the past 30 years, James Lavelle has been at the forefront of global club culture. Known as much for his eclectic DJ sets as for his production work with UNKLE, Lavelle has been lauded as a highly influential tastemaker and musical curator.
Alongside a successful DJ career Lavelle continues to produce albums under his UNKLE moniker, working with a myriad cast of musical collaborators including Thom Yorke, Michael Kiwanuka, Mark Lanegan, Massive Attack, Brian Eno and Josh Homme.
The most recent full length UNKLE album, The Road: Part II / Lost Highway topped the Billboard Electronic Album chart in 2019. With UNKLE, Lavelle has won the MPG Award for remixer of the year four times in the past seven years and has reworked tracks for artists as diverse as Beck, London Grammar, Radiohead and Wu-Tang Clan.
In 2014, Lavelle was asked to curate the iconic Meltdown on London’s South Bank, joining a long list of musical luminaries such as David Bowie, Yoko Ono, Massive Attack, Nick Cave and John Peel, amongst others, something he described as one of his career highlights.
Lavelle’s long interest in the visual arts led him to create the ‘Daydreaming With…’ exhibition series back in 2010. This celebration of creativity and innovation in all its forms, aimed to create a unique and multi-sensory experience pairing music with art in a wide range of disciplines, including film, photography, fashion, performance, painting, street art, sound, and sculpture combined under one roof to create the ultimate multi-sensory environment. One such incarnation saw Lavelle curate ‘Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick’, a blockbuster exhibition at London’s Somerset House in 2016, that featured contributions from artists such as Anish Kapoor, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk, Thomas Bangalter and many more.
2018 saw the release of ‘The Man from Mo’Wax’, a critically acclaimed documentary film about Lavelle’s career, that saw a major release with the BFI, as well as showings at several international film festivals.
March 2021 saw UNKLE release the first in a two-part mixtape project, Rōnin I, which featured the singles ‘Do Yourself Some Good’ and ‘If We Don’t Make It’, both A Listed at BBC Radio 6Music. 2022. UNKLE followed this up in August 2022 with the release of Rōnin II, the second part of the project.
2023 saw UNKLE return to touring following the pandemic, with shows across Europe. Lavelle curated, DJed and performed the UNKLE Rōnin show with bespoke visuals at Hydra’s closing party held at London clubbing institution Printworks before it shut its doors at the end of April. Autumn saw UNKLE take the Rōnin show across the Atlantic returning to the USA and Mexico for a tour as well as DJing across the globe.
Throughout 2024 the UNKLE Rōnin show went from strength to strength with dates across the world. 2024 has seen UNKLE perform to massive crowds in China at Bubbling & Boiling Festival in Tianjin and at Kiloglow Festival in Hangzhou, a headline slot at the infamous Secret Garden Party festival, dates in Latvia, in Germany, and a hugely successful UK tour culminating in a packed show at London’s Outernet in the autumn. Lavelle continues to DJ with shows in Europe and the UK as well as DJing at and curating a special “Invites” night celebrating Fabric’s 25th anniversary.
As we head into 2025 James is back in the studio writing a new album, continuing touring and excited about what the next chapter for UNKLE will bring.
This show is strictly for audiences aged 18 and over.
If you have access needs, feel free to email Aoife at aoife@cqaf.com for more info—we’re happy to help!
“The Morricone Experience” is a tribute to the late maestro of film music who wrote over 400 film compositions in his lifetime, including the scores for audience favourites “A Fistful of Dollars”, “The Good the Bad and the Ugly”,” Cinema Paradiso”, and “The Mission”.
The ensemble comprises acclaimed solo international artists residing in Ireland. These include Dundalk locals Annemarie McGahon (viola), Francesca De Nardi (violin), Davide Forti (cello) and Annalisa Monticelli (piano) and Dubliners Katy Kelly (soprano) and Morgan Crowley (tenor).
Featured on RTÈ’s Arena, this ensemble played to a sold-out crowd in the Pavilion Theatre & Castletown House and are touring theatres throughout Ireland until the end of 2025.
Following on from last year’s unforgettable performances at The American Bar and a year that has seen him bring his joyous, uplifting sound to many rooms, festivals, and dancers across Europe, Moving On Music is delighted to welcome Irish based Kurdish/Syrian singer and Bouzouki player, Mohammad Syfkhan, back to Belfast.
Mohammad Syfkhan’s own brand of ecstatic music takes elements from Middle Eastern and North African music to create an atmosphere of joy, love and happiness.
Since arriving in Ireland, Mohammad has used the language of music to integrate into the local community by playing at private parties and concerts. He has been playing music since the 1980’s, while living in the city of Raqqa, Syria where he began working as a professional singer and started his own band, The Al-Rabie Band, which played concerts, parties, weddings and festivals all over Syria.
His debut album ‘I Am Kurdish’(“A record that truly slaps” – The Quietus) came out through Nyahh Records in February 2024 and led to performances at Lankum’s ‘In The Meadows’ festival, Other Voices, the Venice Biennale, and on the Tommy Tiernan show, to name but a few.
“Syfkhan takes his domestic influences and fuses them with music from beyond those regions, from North African folk rhythms to Turkish psychedelia. It’s a glorious alembic not bound by borders, where Mohammad himself brings a cultivated exuberance to his playing that belies his vintage.”– The Quietus
”No one could be left sitting to this” – Klof Mag
This show is strictly for audiences aged 18 and over.
If you have access needs, feel free to email Aoife at aoife@cqaf.com for more info—we’re happy to help!
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