Laoise is a soul musician who will be performing a combination of original material as well covers of artists such as: Aretha Franklin, Incognito and some dance soul tunes. The festival is taking place across a number of venues such as Triskel Arts Centre, Marina Market, Cornmarket Street. Finishing with a bang with a performance with Cork's Karen Underwood.For more information about the festival visit: About — Soul in the City (soulinthecitycork.ie)

Introducing Curious Gardens: a series of one-day festivals of tunes, chats and laughs in the walled gardens of two historic houses, presented by Schweppe Curtis Nunn and Emperor’s Robes in partnership with the Office of Public Works. From the people who bring you MindField, Trailer Park and Salty Dog at Electric Picnic come two brand new, day-long festivals in the beautiful, intimate surroundings of the historic walled gardens at Doneraile Estate, Co. Cork (September 5th) and Emo Court, Co. Laois (September 9th) that celebrate the essence of the Irish summer festival. Curious Gardens takes you through the keyhole of these secret gardens to witness the planting of seeds, turning of soil, tending of vines, blooming of flowers and nurturing of green shoots. Birdsong will be joined by human music; the buzz of bees will accompany enlightening conversations and the hissing of summer lawns will give way to laughter as the walled gardens in Doneraile Court and Emo Court spring into life. Experience intriguing entertainment including music, talks and comedy; a hamlet of interactive installations ranging from a Calcutta-style bus, to a forgotten circus, to an Alpine snow chalet, with great food and drinks, loads of picnic benches with room to roam and much more. Doneraile Estate, Co. Cork - Sunday, September 5th Music : JYellowL // Dublin Gospel Choir // Jafaris // Interskalactic // Cooks But We’re Chefs // Steo Wall Words: An Irishman Abroad Podcast hosted by Jarlath Regan with special guest Hilary Rose (The Young Offenders) // Colm O’Regan: Climate Worrier // Waterford Whispers News: Live with special guest Mary Ann // Elaine Feeney // Sinéad Gleeson // Lisa McInerney // Jennifer O'Connell // Martin Collins // Mairtín Mac an Bhaird // Oein De Bhairdúin // Marty Mulligan // Willzee Casey // David McDonagh Interactive installations: Après Ski // Lord Ganesh’s Larder For further information about this event visit: Curious Gardens - Doneraile Estate, Cork — TakeYourSeats.ie

The opening event of this year’s Pitch’d Circus & Street Arts Festival is Pure Daycent Chats with Paddy O’Brien and Noelle Ní Ríagáin, two Master Storytellers and Listeners, who are inviting the public to join them at the Douglas Street Parklet by the Cork Flower Studio for a cuppa and a chat from September 2nd to 5th and 9th to 12th.How do you feel about where you live, what you love or hate about it, and how do you see it in 100 years? Tell them what the funniest thing that’s happened to you on the streets of Cork, or what’s your favourite Cork expression? Pure Daycent Chats want to know! Other events include on Culture Night Friday 17th - RedFM media partners to Culture Night – where you’ll find a Circus street disco on the Coal Quay. Elsewhere and on other dates you’ll find Pop- up shows, Tumble Circus performing a brand new show, a workshop with Tom Campbell that shows you how to cover yourself completely in recycled rubbish, a community cabaret show, a circus street arts trail, and all to be finished off in Red Abbey square on Sunday 26th of September with an event called Pure decent rhymes which features GMC creating story's from the public in Rap form. There's Plenty of more events available to check out at: PITCH'D - Programme of events (pitchdfestival.ie)

Kevin moved to Toronto just before the first lock down.He decided to go recording with fellow musician and Corkonian Tiz McNamara, who he knew from having grown up with him in Douglas. Resulting in a 5 track EP. We hear one of the tracks from it hush. To hear more music from Kev visit: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6UQFOklwM8AKd8JcgRrwHF

The idea was brought about to raise awareness and letting people express hope in their mental health recovery as well as trying to break the stigma surrounding it.In association with Notes to Cork, Steps of Hope decided to create a community exhibit which consists of a number of billboards around the city as well as a walk.With artists expressing their journey and optimism and hope for mental health recovery.They will be visible across Cork through the month of September.With a selection of Photography, Artwork, Creative Writing and Poetry as well has hints and tips on relation to mental health recovery. Other contributions were made from the Simon Community, Nask Gateway Project and Smart Recovery.If you wish to find out more about this wonderful initiative visit: https://shine.ie/events/steps-of-hope/

Cork's Emperor of Ice Cream new single 'Weather Vane' is out now on FIFA Records, mixed by Graham Finn and produced by the band it captures the zeitgeist of this isolationist day and age, where social relations can be somewhat strained. Moods, motives and expectations can sometimes make us feel like we are caught up in a tornado of emotions when a relationship hits a rocky patch. This song is about the hope that remains even when things are falling apart. Offering driving rhythms and the Emperors trademark basslines, the band lays the foundations for raw and melodic guitars, topped by elegant, lush vocals and harmonies. A natural direction for the band, they bring in a fresher and raw sound, letting the parts speak for themselves rather than enveloping them with pedals and tricks. Since re-emerging on the scene in May 2020, Emperor of Ice Cream have embarked on a chapter few anticipated would be written. Their debut record's first anniversary is marked by a second pressing on vinyl and CD. Entering the official Irish album charts at number 35 upon release, the LP topped the independent charts and was among the top 20 best-selling Irish releases of 2020.Garnering a new legion of supporters around the globe and a renewed demand for the band's back catalogue resulted in the release of a compilation album of their three early Sony-backed EPs ('Overflow', 'William' and 'Know Me'), having sold out in the pre-digital 90’s. The album reached number 21 in the official album charts, rising to number 3 in the independent charts. While the limited-edition physical copies were sold out on release day, it is still available as a digital download via bandcamp. If you would like to hear more music from the Emperor of Ice cream visit: https://emperoroficecream.bandcamp.com/merch

Saanvi Kaushik from Frankfield in Cork city has won the Technology category at Technovation, a global competition that saw 5,900 girls from 60 countries develop 1,700 mobile apps that solve community problems. Stellar, the App developed by Saanvi, was selected as the best in the Technology category beating entries from all over the globe. Saanvi who is 13 years old developed Stellar, an easy-to-navigate app, to provide timely and affordable Paediatric Occupational Therapy services to children that need them. Saanvi’s mother is an Occupational Therapist and during lockdown she saw first-hand her parent’s struggle to deliver care. Stellar provides a safe platform to Occupational Therapists so they can deliver remote appointments, monitor progress, and develop individualised programmes for children.

Ceara talks about how rowing has grown in popularity as a sport amongst Irish people especially after the success of our recent Olympians. The national rowing centre is based in Cork and the championships will see 503 crew's compete in 55 categories making for 130 races over 3 days.

The Lord Mayor talks about his reign as mayor so far, and chats about the playful culture trail. Which has 30 fun things to do across a range of museums and galleries. It's an initiative sponsored by Cork City Council. It's set up to make these amenities more child friendly and help kids get more culture. Available are such events as scoot down the marina, skim a stone across the Lee and ring the bells of Shandon. He also chats about the banter back and forth between the Mayor of Limerick and himself, and how they are meeting one another at the county bounds with hurleys for "hurls at high noon". Form more info on this event visit: https://purecork.ie/plan-your-trip/blog/2021/july/play-trail

Tom Jordan, co-founder of Cork environmental organisation Trees Please, studied history in UCC and worked many jobs while living in Cork city for 18 years. A self-taught musician, he plays with Cork folk ensemble Blind Poets and eagerly anticipates the return of live gigs. In the meantime, you may find him in the woodshed, learning about bees or tending his garden and tree nursery near Dunmanway. To see our goal of ‘more trees’ realised we soon agreed that a lot of people starting small nurseries, growing local seeds and rejuvenating the local environment would be the best solution. And that is how our environmental action group, Trees Please, came to be. Our role is to facilitate people who want to plant trees. We are not ourselves experts, but we have organised woodland walks and foraging expeditions with native woodland specialists, including heritage officer Ted Cook, who cares for many of Munster's ancient trees including the Muskerry Oak and has also fostered many young forests around Macroom. Ecologist Daniel Buckley gave us a terrific tour of Currabinny woods near Carrigaline during the easing of Covid restrictions last summer, while Mike Collard, who founded Future Forests nursery in Kealkill, brought a group of Trees Please enthusiasts on a terrific tour just before Covid struck in January 2020. By providing this point of contact Trees Please has become a touchstone for many people who wanted to grow trees but didn't know how. We encourage all types of tree planting, from windowsill nurseries to larger-scale planting. Trees please also collaborate with Green Spaces for Health, Green Spine Gurranabraher and Churchfield ,St Mary's Health Campus and Friends of the Glen as well as other Community groups. To find out more about Tom's vision visit: https://tripeanddrisheen.substack.com/p/our-cork-2040-cork-could-be-a-wonderful Or find out more on Trees please at: https://m.facebook.com/planttreescork/