✨We’re back in 2024!
For the sixth Spike Cello Fest the directors, cellists Mary Barnecutt & Lioba Petrie, have cooked up a divine mixture of jazz, pop, contemporary, folk and blues, with a particular celebration of female performers of the cello world 🌎
Stay Tuned! 🎶
🪩SPIKE CELLO FESTIVAL🪩
Huge thank you to all our wonderful performers, venues, and audiences for living and breathing all things alternative cello with us last weekend🤍 GRMA @artscouncilireland for the generous support!
Stay tuned for more highlights + for SPIKE 2025!
Listening to wonderful @NatalieHaas83, @ktcello & @naomiberr talk about their intro to music, looking fwd to their music later & loving stories of women in world of cello as part of @Spikecellofest “Who let her sit like that?” gig @ Fumbally café @libertiesdublin
@FairPle
@naomiberr had yet another full house under her spell today at @TheArkDublin ✨ Last chance to catch her 🎣⚓️ is tonight at 8pm tonight at The Fumbally alongside @NatalieHaas83 + Katie Tertell 🪩🫶🏻
:: OPENING NIGHT ::
Full house for FIRL + Naomi Berrill trio last night. Catch Naomi today at 2pm + 4pm at @TheArkDublin ⚓️
Jam packed pop-ups + events today + tomorrow 🫶🏻 https://t.co/jU4eMkroqH
🪩🎻 O P E N I N G N I G H T 🎻🪩
Thanks everyone who celebrated alternative cello music with us last night! Plenty more pop-ups + events this weekend: https://t.co/jU4eMkroqH
Looking for weekend plans?@Spikecellofest will take over The Ark this Sat 10 Feb!
Experience a thrilling music & storytelling performance based on tales of Grace O’Malley, Ireland's "pirate queen", or catch a FREE mini cello concert by Cellophonics🎼
🎟️👉https://t.co/zt5eULICPu
:: SPIKE CELLO FESTIVAL 2024 ::
‘Who Let Her Sit Like That?’
Saturday 12th February 2024
8.00pm
Tickets:
https://t.co/jU4eMkrWgf
Music + Conversation with Katie Tertell (Durham University) and (Natalie Haas) with special guests Ben Cashell and Catríona
#rtesupportingthearts
✨Sundays at Noon | The Hugh Lane Gallery
Sunday 11th February 2024
12.00pm
Featuring: Cellophonics
Champions of all things cello, Christopher Allan, Michael Atkinson, Adrian Bradbury & Ben Rogerson make up the cello quartet Cellophonics.
Book now: https://t.co/jU4eMkroqH
✨Yocella- cello & yoga
Sunday 11th Feb 3-5pm
St Andrew’s Resource Centre, Dublin
https://t.co/Y8MoVomLYu
Join Kitty Maguire for soothing Yin Yoga with cellos - with Spike cellists to create music for the celebrated class through drones, improvisations & alternative classics.
✨Join us for a night of conversations about music, women and cello at the Fumbally Cafe titled
“Who Let Her Sit Like That?”
Featuring: Katie Tertell, Artistic Director and Founder of the Appalachian Chamber Music Festival
:: SPIKE CELLO FESTIVAL 2024 ::
Opening Night
Friday 9th Feb
https://t.co/jU4eMkroqH
Naomi Berrill Trio
NBT present their recently released album “Inish” a jazz-based rumination on islands, the strength and courage of the inhabitants.
#RTESupportingTheArts
:: SPIKE CELLO FESTIVAL 2024 ::
Opening Night
Friday 9th Feb
8.00pm
Tickets:
https://t.co/jU4eMkroqH
✨Featured Artists: FIRL✨
Long-time collaborators Gay Yee Westerhoff and Eos Counsell from global sensation Bond make their debut appearance at the Sugar Club as FIRL.