GOING OUT

Bibi Tanga & The Selenites

(*Debut Irish performance)
Date: Saturday July 3rd
Time: 10pm
Location: The Clarence
Event Type: World Music
Ticket Price: €12
When the music of Bibi Tanga wafts in your general direction, it's quite
easy to visualise his record collection. You imagine there's plenty of
Curtis Mayfield and Sly Stone in there, packed in alongside the albums
of Fela Kuti, Franco, Gil Scott-Heron and Arrested Development. But
that these inspirations are clearly discernible isn't a criticism. Sure,
he jumps around all over the shop - funk, soul, hip-hop, Afrofunk -
but this is no scattergun approach. Instead Bibi, born in the Central
African Republic but raised in the Parisian suburbs, moulds these
influences to create something both invigorating and bearing his own
signature. And that his music, unleashed over the course of three
albums thus far, finds a kindred spirit in Sun Ra's cosmic Afrofuturism
is born out by the derivation of his band's name - The Selenites were
the moon-dwelling civilisation in HG Wells' The First Men In The Moon.
Bibi Tanga has performed worldwide including at the famous Womad
festival – do not miss their first ever Irish performance.

SUNDAY JULY 4TH
Park Fest
Date: Sunday July 4th
Time: 12 - 7pm
Location: The Peace Park
Event Type: Family/Street Theatre
Ticket Price: FREE
A day long celebration of music, performance, food, arts and crafts in
Sligo’s Peace Park! Those who know Park Fest know that this is one
of the highlights of the Cairde Festival. This year’s Park Fest features
music by Colette Sheerin, Tabby Callaghan, The Odd Sox Revival,
North Strand Kontra band; performances by Ouch Entertainment &
Cilian Rogers and Co. Sligo Youth Theatre; The Storytelling tent with
Monkeyshine Theatre, Anna Rosenfelder and Helene Hugel; a range of
children’s art workshops and global arts, craft and food stands.

My Name Is Sue
Time: 9pm - 10pm
Location: The Factory Performance Space
Event Type: Music / Theatre / Comedy
Ticket Price: €15 (with free entry to Miss Honey’s Speakeasy)
A sell-out hit and winner of Total Theatre Award at the 2009
Edinburgh Fringe, My Name is Sue tells the story of a piano-wielding
prophet from Wales who has so far kept her thoughts to herself. She
now invites you to her lounge, where she will sing you through her life
from finishing school to Doomsday. In this genre-busting collaboration
between award winning theatre-makers Daffyd James and Ben Lewis,
Sue invites you to take a peek beneath the drab cardigan of the
person you’d probably rather not become.
“ A bizarre comic creation, daft, inconsequential and brilliant”
Brian Logan, The Guardian
“hysterically funny and beautifully played”
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out

N.O.H.A. (Noise of Human Art)
(*Irish premiere)
Time: 10pm (Doors)
Location: The Clarence
Event Type: Music
Ticket Price
With its unique blend of breakbeats, drum and bass, electric jazz,
pop and club grooves, N.O.H.A. brings its complex sound to the
Sligo stage, shifting and reshaping the border of club-scene and live
performance. Minerva Diaz Perez lends her powerful vocals and MC
Chevy lays down a dynamic flow over a full-bodied, pumping sound
amalgamation of saxophone, keys, bass and drums. This international
collective of musicians pulls out all the stops for an enigmatic
performance that will keep you moving (and grooving) all night long.
Followed by DJ Barra