Following the success of our Song Ties music project for Tradoodle 2020, Ceol Connected and Tradoodle Festival are delighted to return to Castleross Nursing Home for more Song Ties magic.
Musician specialists Julie Tiernan and Ann Blake will specially craft interactive performances with the residents in a day long residency, exploring the joy of music making and song ties that connect us together.
Kindly funded by Creative Ireland and Monaghan County Council.
What is it like to live on a giant leaf?
Prepare for whooshing winds, gigantic raindrops, busy bugs, and bursts of colourful canopy in this joyful multi-sensory workshop designed for young children with complex needs. With the gentle unfurling of a leaf, a soothing sensory world is brought to life through music and song, light, smell, movement, and touch.
Lullaby LEAF is an immersive, inclusive, and highly participatory workshop designed specifically for very young children with complex needs. It is inspired by LEAF multisensory theatre production which Ceol Connected developed in 2017 as Theatre Company in Residence in Draíocht.
Watch original LEAF trailer here:
In partnership with Cavan County Council and Creative Cavan, Ceol Connected is bringing this very special multisensory workshop experience to the Holy Family School in Cootehill in a week-long residency.
We are delighted to collaborate with Music Generation Cavan Monaghan to provide the opportunity for their musician facilitators to work with the Lullaby Leaf team. At the heart of this process is their exploration of how multisensory experiences – sound, touch, taste, smell, light, movement, etc. – could be meaningfully embedded in music workshops to most effectively engage children who have a range of additional needs.
Lullaby LEAF is a captivating, fun-filled, and immersive sensory experience for the very young and their teachers/carers.
Key Personnel
Director: Joanna Williams
Musical Director: Thomas Johnston
Co-creators: Thomas Johnston, Orla Kelly, Joanna Williams
Facilitators: Claire Crehan, Orla Kelly, Music Generation Cavan Monaghan musicians
Music Composition: Thomas Johnston
Sensory object creation: Orla Kelly
Creative Producer: Brioni Gallagher
Following their September residency at the Holy Family School, which awed us with the sounds of the seashore and the colours of the forest floor, community musicians Julie Tiernan and Ann Blake return with another ASD focused workshop series.
Using multisensory experiences and intensive interaction, these workshops explore the realms of non-verbal, in-the-moment, meaningful communication and engagement.
This residency is kindly supported by Cavan County Council and Creative Cavan
In this workshop we’ll be inspired by the animals featured in Ceol na Sióg, from mice and owls to squirrels, crows, herons and dolphins. We’ll be using repurposed materials to make masks, headgear and costumes that make us FEEL like these incredible animals of the Irish countryside. Fur, claws, horns, wings, fangs, paws, feathers, antlers, beaks, hooves …Can you bring out your animal side?
Anne Cradden is an artist who loves drawing and making things out of all sorts of other things. She also loves sharing this with children, because she has found that grown-ups and kids all have something to teach each other about the joy of unleashing our imaginations. She has facilitated many art workshops, sculpture collaborations, dress-up sessions, and Sellotape-related experiments with children in a variety of settings, while enjoying herself very much at the same time. She is currently artist in residence for Fingal County Council’s Room 13 project at Tyrellstown Educate Together National School, where she collaborates with the students on genius works of art.
Time: 12.00pm-1.30pm
Location: Sliabh Beagh Hotel
Age Range: 8+
Duration: 90 minutes
Capacity: 12
Price: Free but registration required. Booking essential
with Patricia Cosgrove from Moco Music Academy
It’s time to have a boogie at our Treetop Tunes session at Sliabh Beagh (Knockatallon). Feel free to bring along your instrument and dancing shoes and join in, or if you prefer, sit back, relax, and listen to some tantalising tunes. Treetop Tunes session is suitable for beginners.
Time: 1.00pm-2pm
Location: Sliabh Beagh Hotel
Age Range: 8+
Duration: 60 minutes
Capacity: 12
Price: Free but registration required. Booking essential
Have you ever met a pigeon who has their very own TV show? No? Well, now’s your chance! Pigeon on the Gate is an 8-episode traditional music series created especially for young children.
Live from Clocktower Studios, Pigeon on the Gate is presented by none other than the charming, funny, and relentlessly curious Elfin the Pigeon! Get ready for exquisite music, singalong songs, toe-tapping dance, and delightful banter with Elfin and some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians and singers.
Elfin loves music and he loves meeting new people. Every day he looks forward to chatting to musicians who sit on his bench in Clocktower Studios.
“Who who who are you?” he coos when his special musical guest arrives. Across this 8-episode series of Pigeon on the Gate, Elfin will interview four fabulous musicians – Áine McGeeney, Caitlín Nic Gabhann, Síle Denvir, and Barry Kerr – who have composed brand new music and songs for the occasion.
Sign-up now to watch all episodes from Monday 8th November (for a limited time only): https://tradoodletv.thinkific.com/courses/pigeon-on-the-gate
Artistic Director: Thomas Johnston
Elfin voiced by: Thomas Baker
Musicians: Áine McGeeney, Caitlín Nic Gabhann, Síle Denvir, Barry Kerr
Set design and animations: Emma Fisher-Owen
Puppet design and construction: Thomas Baker
Carpenter and scenic artist: Colin Bartley
Lighting design: Sebastian Pizarro
Sound engineer and mixing: Tomás Donaghy
Animation assistant: Ivan Fisher-Owen
Recorded at: An Taibhdhearc
Videographer: Gary de Búit at Studio 8 Labs
Pigeon on the Gate is a Ceol Connected production for Tradoodle TV. Developed with the support of Monaghan County Council, Draíocht Arts Centre, and Music Generation Tipperary. Funded by the Arts Council through the Traditional Arts Commissions Award.
‘“Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust!” – Carl Sagan
This workshop is inspired by the knowledge that every atom in our body is made from the dust left behind from an exploded star. We are made of all the lights we see in the night sky.
Using a variety of dry media we will colour and create our very own star pods for you to hold your wishes, hopes and dreams in.
Andrew Carson is a visual artist and educator living and working in Dublin. His work is an exploration of the body and interpersonal interactions through the mediums of digital technology. He is interested in the use and effects of digital devices and social media as the primary means of modern contact. He works in a variety of media, including digital sound and image, print, and paper.
Time: 12.00pm – 1.30pm
Location: Library
Age Range: 8+
Duration: 90 mins
Capacity: 12
Price: Free but registration required, booking essential
with Seán Walsh
It’s time to have a tune and a boogie at the Treetops Tunes Session with traditional music maestro Seán Walsh. Feel free to bring along your instrument and dancing shoes and join in. Or if you prefer, sit back, relax and listen to some tantalising tunes. Session suitable for beginners.
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Location: Main Stage
Age Range: All ages
Duration: 60 mins
Capacity: 12
Price: Free but registration required, booking essential
