ABLETON LIVE COURSE Friday 17th & Saturday 18th of FEB 2012

Claycastle Studios are happy to announce that we will be running an Ableton Live advanced course alongside our now well-established beginners course.

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The students can be split between Barry Dempseys main course and a secondary room with a separate Ableton tutor for those that wish to advance in a specific areas. Students can move freely between rooms as we now understand that some may be advanced in one area and not in another and visa versa. This opens up the opportunity to learn new skills as well as touch up on what you already know.

The next course is on Friday 17th & Saturday 18th of Feb 2012

Total Cost of the course is €250 (with 10% discount available to repeat students)

€100 deposit required no less than 1 week in advance of the course

To apply please email ableton@claycastlerecording.ie or call 0871622964 (John Burke Course Coordinator) or 024/90885

Course will cover some of the following areas;

System Configuration:
Setting up mac/PC for use with Live and audiocard settings for MIDI &
audio applications .
MIDI Programming:
Creating drumloops, Baselines, Hooks and synth-leads in Live.
Audio Editing/Programming:
Warping, cut’n paste, top’n tailing & sequencing audio loops.
FX / Processing:
Using Ableton plug-in FX to bring colour and life to tracks.
Tips & Tricks: For more effective mixing results.
Audio Mixdowns & Rendering:
2 – track mix creation for playing out.

DJing in Live:
Warping / MIDI Controllers / Audiocards / Live Looping / Live performance.
Sound Creation:
Creating your very own patches using Ableton Live; including leads,
percussion and the all-important ‘hook’.

Rendered 2-track mixes get the final works before burning to CD!

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Date: 17th &18th Feb 2012

Time: 10am to 6pm ( lunch hour from 1pm to 2pm each day).

Total cost €250

to book a place call 024/90885 or email ableton@claycastlrecording.ie
Barry Dempsey Ableton Live certified trainer  http://www.ableton.com/education/certified-training/ireland/barry-dempsey-dublin

A range of Ableton Live merchandise is also available to students who take part in the course at Claycastle Studios with Barry

To enroll on the next course just get in touch via our website http://www.claycastlerecording.ie/

Youghalonline.com would like to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year. A Big Thank You to everyone who contributed to the site during 2011 and please keep doing so during 2012.

Youghalonline.com is a website for the people of Youghal at home and abroad and all feedback both good and bad is welcome.

If you have something to contribute, be it news, a match report, your business got an award/press release, or a family achievement, what ever it is, let us know at Youghalonline.com and we will include it here on the site.

Youghalonline.com is trying to preserve the towns past and promote its future, but we need your help, if you would like to contribute to the site please email news@youghalonline.com

ST. RAPHAEL’S DRAMA GROUP will present their award winning play ‘An Angel Fell from the Sky’ in St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal, on Thursday Dec 8th 2011 at 7.15pm. Show duration – 15mins.
Dress warm and enjoy a glass of warm punch. You’ll be moved to tears and leave in great Christmas spirits. The drama group put in a cracking performance! Admission – Free.

St. Raphael’s Drama Group, Youghal, celebrate with the COPE Foundation Irish Performing Arts Festival Drama Cup 2011. Pictured are some of the award winners with Julie Sharkey and Elinor Rivers, drama facilitators at St. Raphael's Centre, Youghal. Their play entitled ‘ An Angel Fell from the Sky’ was a ‘clear winner’. - Pic: Michael Hussey

St. Raphael’s Drama Group, Youghal, celebrate with the COPE Foundation Irish Performing Arts Festival Drama Cup 2011. Pictured are some of the award winners with Julie Sharkey and Elinor Rivers, drama facilitators at St. Raphael's Centre, Youghal. Their play entitled ‘ An Angel Fell from the Sky’ was a ‘clear winner’. - Pic: Michael Hussey

As St. Raphael’s said to be the angel of ‘happy meetings’ the play ‘An Angel Fell from the Sky’ tells the story of an angel who one day falls from the sky. The angel goes on a journey of happy meetings that lead to his own journey home.

The wonderful silhouettes created by Youghal’s Windy Lane Puppeteers. Pic: Michael Hussey

The wonderful silhouettes created by Youghal’s Windy Lane Puppeteers. Pic: Michael Hussey

Overall winners of the Irish Performing Arts Festival 2011

St. Raphael’s Drama Group won the 2011 Irish Performing Arts Festival Drama section. Their play entitled ‘ An Angel Fell from the Sky’  was a ‘clear winner’ said judge Catherine Mahon Buckley who admitted she had been moved to tears by the incredible performances, visual beauty and simplicity of the piece.The competition which took place over two days in the Firkin Crane Theatre, Cork involved seventeen groups from around the country.The play involved both live performance and shadow puppets brilliantly provided by St. Raphael’s Windy Lane Puppet Group.
The multi talented group’s short film When They Least Expect It was screened in the Mall Arts Centre Youghal and Camden Palace Cork.

St. Raphael’s Drama Group, Youghal, presented with celebrate winning the Irish Performing Arts Festival Drama Cup 2011

St. Raphael’s Drama Group, Youghal, presented with the Irish Performing Arts Festival Drama Cup 2011

St. Raphael’s Drama Group, Youghal, celebrate winning the Irish Performing Arts Festival Drama Cup 2011

St. Raphael’s Drama Group, Youghal, celebrate winning the Irish Performing Arts Festival Drama Cup 2011

 

St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal

St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal, is proving to be a popular location for such events as seen recently with the successful screening of the silent movie Phantom of the Opera – pictured below.

The unique screening of The Phantom Of The Opera while organist Eric Sweeney performed a live organ improvisation to the film at St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal. Pic: YOL

The unique screening of The Phantom Of The Opera while organist Eric Sweeney performed a live organ improvisation to the film at St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal. Pic: YOL

The screening of the silent film Phantom of the Opera at St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal

The screening of the silent film Phantom of the Opera at St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal

“Xpose Xmas Xperience”
Friday 2nd December
Quays Nite Club Youghal Doors open 8pm

TIME TO GLAM UP FOR CHRISTMAS by attending “Xpose Xmas Xperience” Youghal with special guest Avril Geary “Style Coach and Image Consultant” Avril will be on hand throughout the night and will be giving advice on how to dress for your body shape.

Michaela Bailey, Team Bailey Hairdressing, launches Youghal's Xpose Xmas Xperience which will take place will in the Quays Nite Club on Friday the 2nd of December at 8pm and will showcase some of Youghal's finest fashion and beauty. Tickets cost only euro 15, and on the night you will be greeted with a champagne reception and canap's. Picture: John Hennessy

Michaela Bailey, Team Bailey Hairdressing, launches Youghal's Xpose Xmas Xperience which will take place will in the Quays Nite Club on Friday the 2nd of December at 8pm and will showcase some of Youghal's finest fashion and beauty. Tickets cost only euro 15, and on the night you will be greeted with a champagne reception and canap's. Picture: John Hennessy

This red carpet event will take place in the Quays Nite Club on Friday the 2nd of December at 8pm and will showcase some of Youghal’s finest  fashion and beauty.  Tickets cost only €15, and on the night you will be greeted with a champagne reception and canapés. One lucky person will win an extreme makeover which will be uncovered on the night.

A facebook competition is currently running to choose the lucky winner for more information on how you could be in with a chance to win go to Youghal Chamber facebook page.  Experts will be on hand to give plenty of fashion advice; beauty tips glamorous hairstyles and gift ideas for Christmas.

You will also have an opportunity to buy some fabulous gifts for Christmas at a special “Xpose Youghal” discounted price on the night!  And if that’s not enough you will receive a goody bag on arrival and a draw will take place for some fantastic prizes and spot prizes will be given throughout the night.

After the show you can put on your dancing shoes and dance the night away for a glitzy style disco in the club with DJ Chris which is included in the price of your ticket.  This would make a great Christmas party staff night out for many small businesses

A donation from the proceeds of the draw will go to Youghal Community Bus.

This event is being run by Youghal Chamber to encourage “SHOP LOCAL” and to highlight the best of what our town has to offer for Christmas shopping.

Shop Local for Christmas is the message that Chamber President Mary O’Donnell wants to spread and commented  “I cannot stress enough how important it is for everyone to make a real effort to support our local shops, please try to buy your Christmas presents here in Youghal this year. By shopping local you are helping to sustain local employment and the future of our town”.

So put some sparkle back into your Christmas and come to Xpose Xmas Xperience Youghal. Tickets cost €15 are available from Youghal Tourist Office 024-92447, Team Bailey Hairdressers and Sole Shoe Shop or any of Youghal Chamber Directors.

Thursday, November 10, 2011
JIMMY SAVILE “brought a little bit of magic and sparkle to everybody that he met”, mourners at his funeral service were told yesterday. Savile will be buried today following more public ceremonials in Scarborough, the North Yorkshire seaside town he loved and where he had a home. Savile, who presented the first episode of Top Of The Pops, was found dead at his flat in Roundhay, Leeds, just two days before his 85th birthday. He raised millions for charity and ran more than 200 marathons in support of good causes.

Sir Jimmy Savile

Sir Jimmy Savile 'Fixed It' for the Youghal Pipe Band

Jim’ll Fix It was a long-running British television show, broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1994. It was presented by Jimmy Savile.

The show debuted on 31 May 1975, and ran until July 1994, in the Saturday teatime slot. It was devised and hosted by the late Jimmy Savile, who would “fix it” for the wishes of several viewers (usually children) to come true each week.

The standard format was that the viewer’s letter, which described their wish, would be shown on the screen and read out aloud by the letter’s writer, although initially Savile himself read the letters. This would be followed with a quick chat between Jimmy and the letter writer, where they would discuss the wish.

The wish would then be enacted (either live in the studio or shown in a pre-recorded format, which usually consisted of a segment recorded on film), and finally the viewer would be presented with a medal which had the words “Jim fixed it for me” engraved on it.

Occasionally, other people featured in the ‘Fix It’ (actors from well known series, for example), might also give the viewer an extra gift somehow relating to the Fix. Savile himself played no part in the filming or recording of the ‘fix-its’, unless specifically requested as part of the letter writer’s wish.

Youghal Pipe Band's Michael McCarthy wrote the letter to Jim'll Fix It

Youghal Pipe Band's Michael McCarthy wrote the letter to Jim'll Fix It

Fr. Tom Paul Geary 'My days are like lightning's shadows'

Fr. Tom Paul Geary "My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass"

Youghal Pipe Band march at Green Park, Youghal back in 1984

Youghal Pipe Band march at Green Park, Youghal, back in 1984

Back in 1984 the late Michael McCarthy from the Youghal Pipe Band wrote to the Jim’ll Fix It programme asking if Jim’ll Fix It so that the pipe band could be on the tv as a request from his father, Duis McCarthy. Jim indeed fixed it for the Youghal Pipe Band and the BBC team duly arrived in town to film the pipers in different location around Youghal and nearby Ardmore. Youghal priest Fr. Tom Paul Geary and Michael McCarthy went to the BBC studios where they received the famous Jim’ll Fix It medal on St. Patrick’s Day 1984.


“Now Then” - Click on the video below to see the Jim’ll Fix It show and bring back memories of Youghal back in 1984

Fundraising Night in aid of Park National School in the Halfway Bar on the 19th November at 8 p.m.
Music by Patsy and Eileen – Light Refreshments will be served on the night
Raffle on the night with great spot prizes – Tickets: E10
For more information please contact 02497282

PARK NATIONAL SCHOOL, Park, Youghal, Co. Cork

Tel: 02497282

Email: parkschool.ias@eircom.net

The legendary Lambert Puppet Theatre is coming to the Mall Arts Centre on 20th November 2011

THE LAMBERT PUPPET THEATRE is now widely recognised as the Premier Touring Puppet Theatre Company in Ireland and also internationally renowned for its many fine productions in Theatres throughout Ireland, UK and Europe.

From its earliest beginning the Lambert family has been involved with RTE, working on the hugely popular series Wanderly Wagon featuring the Late Eugene Lambert and Judge.

Paula Lambert was the ‘Bosco’ voice on TV for seventeen years and indeed

BOSCO is still a firm favourite with the younger children and will make a nostalgic appearance in the opening part of the Show.

This is a beautifully produced show with large puppets, colourful sets and exquisite lighting and is suitable for an age group up to ten years of age.

The show will take place in the Mall Arts Centre, Youghal on Sunday 20th November 2011  at 2.30pm. Tickets are 10 euro. To reserve tickets, please contact Joyce on 083-3606507 or themallartscentre@gmail.com

 

The Mall Arts Centre/St. Mary’s Collegiate Church
Part of Youghal Socio Economic Development Group
7-10 Emmet Place, Youghal, Co. Cork
Tel: 083 360 6507

THE OPENING NIGHT of Youghal Theatre Company’s ‘Sive’ took place last night at the Youghal Community Centre, North Main St. Before the show, invited guest the Mayor of Youghal Eoin Coyne briefly addressed the audience to wish the cast and background team the best of luck with the production. The proceeds from the opening night are generously going towards the recently formed Save Youghal Ambulance campaign.

Martin Hennessy as Thomasheen Sean Rua and Denise O'Brien as Mena Glavin planning Sive's fate in Youghal Theatre's production of John B Keane play currently on at the Youghal Community Centre. Pic: YOL

Martin Hennessy as Thomasheen Sean Rua and Denise O'Brien as Mena Glavin planning Sive's fate in Youghal Theatre's production of the John B. Keane play currently on at the Youghal Community Centre. Pic: YOL

The play which is one of Irish theatre’s best-loved plays is sure to thrill Youghal audiences this week. Michael Beecher of the Youghal Theatre Group said everyone is excited by the production. “Sive is a great show and even after all these years it’s still a powerful play,” he said.

Denise O'Brien as Mena Glavin and Chiara Curtin as Sive on stage at the Youghal Community Centre. Pic; YOL

Denise O'Brien as Mena Glavin and Chiara Curtin as Sive on stage at the Youghal Community Centre. Pic; YOL

Written by John B Keane, Sive is based in rural Ireland of the 1950′s. Sive is a story of greed and bitterness, of a scheming matchmaker and a resentful woman forcing a beautiful young girl to marry an old man for money.
Sive caused considerable controversy on it’s debut in February1959. Since then it has become an established part of Ireland’s theatrical canon and is also featured on this year’s Leaving Certificate syllabus.

Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who lives with her uncle Mike, his wife Mena and his mother Nanna.  A local matchmaker, Thomasheen Sean Rua, convinces Mike and Mena to organise the marriage of Sive to an old man called Sean Dota for the sum of two hundred pounds. However, Sive is in love with a young man, Liam Scuab, who is deemed unsuitable for her.

Distraught, forced to do the will of her uncle and his bitter wife, and faced with an unthinkable future, Sive takes the only choice left to her…….

Martin Hennessy as Thomasheen Sean Rua and Ted O'Brien as Mike Glavin in a scene from John B. Keane's 'Sive'. Pic: YOL

Martin Hennessy as Thomasheen Sean Rua and Ted O'Brien as Mike Glavin in a scene from John B. Keane's 'Sive'. Pic: YOL

 

Youghal Theatre Company proudly presents John B. Keane’s  ‘ Sive’
(by kind permission of Mercier Press)

Directed by Sean O’Neill

Venue: Youghal Community Centre

Mon 24, 25, 26, – , 28, 29, Sun 30 Oct 2011 @ 8pm sharp  (doors open 7.30pm)

(Please note: No performance Thurs 27 0ct)

Admission:  €20

Oap’s + Students:  €10

Tickets: Cree’s newsagents, Youghal or at door

Enquiries: Michael Beecher (Press Officer) 087 2349472

Tommy Curtin as Pats Bocock, Brian Hogan as Carthalawn and Donie Fitzgerald as Sean Dota on stage at the Youghal Community Cente. Pic: Yol.

Tommy Curtin as Pats Bocock, Brian Hogan as Carthalawn and Donie Fitzgerald as Sean Dota on stage at the Youghal Community Cente. Pic: Yol.

Rihanna ‘Not Impressed’ With North’s Agricultural Programme.
By Enda Long-Grass.

ROCK SINGER  RIHANNA says she is “very disillusioned” with the Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme following her recent trip to the province. The singer took time out during her Belfast concert tour to visit the countryside and investigate how the programme was developing. Unfortunately she was ordered from a field by an irate farmer during her explorations. “One of the stipulations in the 2009-13 Policy document is to ‘encourage diversification of economic activity’ but I didn’t experience anything like that,” says the disappointed singer. “I was testing a cross-cultural media initiative involving turnip-friendly film technology, that could increase turnover without risking subsidy deferment, but I was shown the gate and told to pull it out after me. I think the whole thing needs to be re-generated, preferably with a coinciding education programme for farmers. Right now I want nothing more to do with it.”

On a positive note the singer her faith in the Democratic Unionist Party remains unshaken despite party member Alan Graham disagreeing with her agriculture initiatives. “I still take my shir….er, cap off to Peter Robinson whose wife has long inspired me,” she says.

On Friday September 23rd last, locals and visitors enjoyed the unique experience at Youghal’s second culture night which was a free night of entertainment, discovery and adventure.

Youghal Culture Night 2011 - Eamonn O' Brien of Gallery 126 featured an exhibition of late 19th century illustrated sheet music

Youghal Culture Night 2011 - Eamonn O' Brien of Gallery 126 featured an exhibition of late 19th century illustrated sheet music

The night featured a host of exciting events which including musicians,exhibitions, storytelling, choral singing, silver craft display and a host of other interesting cultural events. Art dealer Eamonn O’Brien of Gallery 126 featured an exhibition of late 19th century illustrated sheet music to the enjoyment of all who attended while musician Tom Connelly played selected songs on the mandolin.

Youghal Culture Night 2011 - CRY 104fm's live outside broadcast, picture includes radio dj's, John Cunningham, Jim Coleman, Tony Sheehan, John Kennedy and Tim Smith

Youghal Culture Night 2011 - CRY 104fm's live outside broadcast, picture includes radio dj's, John Cunningham, Jim Coleman, Tony Sheehan, John Kennedy and Tim Smith

Over in John Kennedy’s electrical shop, CRY 104fm outside broadcast crew went live from ‘The Gossip Shop’ which proved to be a great success. Radio jocks from the station entertained the listeners and the crowds who turned up at the open door, open mike session. Michael Roche read from one of his favourite poems and John Kennedy played some really unique original material from the distant past. Tony Sheehan, Jim Coleman and Tim Smith also played some of their favourite tunes. Meanwhile children were also being entertained at Oona Colin’s new shop ‘In Stitches’ with storytelling and crochet and stitching classes.

Oona Colin's new shop 'In Stitches' with storytelling and crochet and stitching classes

Oona Colin's new shop 'In Stitches' with storytelling and crochet and stitching classes

The photographic exhibition ‘Last Days. The Last of Carpets in Youghal’ in the Mall Arts Centre was also a highlight of the night. The exhibition captured the mood of the workers and the work place in the final days of the carpet factory in store street just before it closed back in 2006. The life size images gave a real depth to the exhibition.

Artist Eileen McGoldrick demonstration techniques in painting at McGoldrick’s Art & Photographic Gallery during the Youghal Culture Night 2011

Artist Eileen McGoldrick demonstration techniques in painting at McGoldrick’s Art & Photographic Gallery during the Youghal Culture Night 2011

Another photographic exhibition was on show over in McGoldrick’s Art & Photographic gallery on North Main St. entitled ‘Flight of Fancy’ and included a demonstration by local artist Eileen McGoldrick. Across the way at Luigi’s restaurant poetry reading by local poets and invited guests went on for the evening, organised by Alan Prim’s Bookshop on South Main St.

Poetry reading at Luigi's restaurant

Poetry reading at Luigi's restaurant

Youghal Culture Night 2011 - Pat Lynch storytelling at Fox's Lane Museum

Youghal Culture Night 2011 - Pat Lynch storytelling at Fox's Lane Museum

The diverse programme of events around the town was amazing and really had something for everyone. The  culture night definitely built up on the success of last year event and great praise to all involved. This type of local and national community involvement can only make next year’s Culture Night one of the main highlights in the autumn calender of cultural events in the town.

Click on image to enlarge – Photos by Ed Guiry & Will McGoldrick

Youghal Adult Education
The Nook
Nappy Cakes
Aquatrek Sea Skills
Youghal Cancer Support Group
Stoneybucket Media
WM Nevilles
Gallery 126
The Cyberoom
Barry Lawlor Photography
Scotts
Perks Entertainment Centre
Youghal Credit Union
Team M - Mens Hair Salon
Bob Rock
Organic Products
Community Radio Youghal
Cara Ambulance Service
Irwins Youghal
Tag to Youghal Festival
Marine Times
English and History Grinds
Yawl Bay Seafood
The Walter Raleigh Hotel