a cultural and educational tour
with Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis,
Niall O’Leary, Billy McComiskey and friends
with Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis,
Niall O’Leary, Billy McComiskey and friends
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| Athena Tergis, Mick Moloney |
November 4 - 12, 2014
“Two island peoples in the same
sea of struggle and hope:
a plaque on Old Havana's
O'Reilly Street
Cultural Exchange
Join Mick Moloney, Athena
Tergis, Niall O'Leary, Billy McComiskey and other acclaimed Irish traditional performers
from the US in a ground
breaking exchange with Cuba
Accompany them to dance
and music encounters with Cuban counterparts.
Hear Mick describe the role of music in the Irish immigrant experience
and today's traditional scene in the US
Witness the Celtic cultural
bond between the Irish in America
and the descendents of Spanish migrants to Cuba
from Asturia and Galicia
Meet Cubans who have mastered uilleann pipes, fiddle, harp, sean nos singing, and step dancing.
Enjoy a beautiful country and a warm and welcoming people.
Full program below
Meet Cubans who have mastered uilleann pipes, fiddle, harp, sean nos singing, and step dancing.
Enjoy a beautiful country and a warm and welcoming people.
Full program below
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| Niall O'Leary with Cuban dancer, 2013 |
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| Billy McComiskey |
Irish Heritage Tour
Hundreds of organizations legally
bring US citizens to Cuba
every year for its Caribbean and Latin
history, music, dance and people-to-people contact.
Only our program adds on the
unique window of the Irish diaspora.
Irish and Cuban ties date
back to the 17th Century, reflected by names on streets, sugar
estates and buildings. Catholic Irish nobility who fled to Spain become part of its colonization of the
Americas
The 19th
century brought Irish-American railroad workers, engineers and teachers to Cuba ; plus gun runners for a costly independence struggle that paralleled Ireland
Full program below
Highlights of Cuba
Letter from the Embassy of Ireland below
Letter from the Embassy of Ireland below
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(translation from above slide by Rafael Moya,)
The Irish and the railroad
Daniel Warren, married to Honora Ryan, was authorized to create a society responsible for helping sailors
in transit and workers in the construction of the Havana-Guines railroad. The first railroad accident
happened on that route in 1842, for which the engineer Patrick Doherty was found guilty.
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| Slide from talk by Dr. Margaret Brehony |
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| Slide from talk by Dr. Margaret Brehony |
An Unforgettable
Week
Revel in an unequaled combination of Cuban and Irish music and warmth!
Hear local experts on the Irish presence in Cuba from the 17th to 19th centuries
See Irish linked homes and plantations from the 18th and 19th centuries in Havana and other provinces.
Stay in a Varadero resort hotel while visiting historical sites in Matanzas Province.
Investigate the birthplace in Cuba of the father of Eamon de Valera, New York born independence leader and President of Ireland.
Meet Irish film maker Charles O'Brien and learn about his project "A Captain Unafraid" about Dynamite Johnny O'Brien from New York, a gun runner for the Cuban independence struggle against Spain.
Meet Irish film maker Charles O'Brien and learn about his project "A Captain Unafraid" about Dynamite Johnny O'Brien from New York, a gun runner for the Cuban independence struggle against Spain.
Speak with international journalists and Cuban academics.
Enjoy as well Cuban culture according to your interest: salsa, jazz, hip hop, reggaeton, symphony, ballet, modern dance, cabaret and the music of the 50s, made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club.
Full program below
Costs
Registration/affiliation fee $250
+ Ground cost (hotel, bus, most meals) $2800 + $500* double
occupancy, $3100 + $500* single
occupancy, $3100 + $500* single
+ Air cost, visa from Cancun $375
+ Flight from your home to Cancun $ ______
Air tickets and hotel rooms can be a problem so please contact us as soon as possible with questions or for a PDF registration form: irishcuba@ffrd.org 917-859-9025.
Even if you can’t come this year, be with us in spirit by financially assisting US based traditional musicians and dancers to share their spirit and talent with Cuba
Contributions to support musicians' costs can be made by non-travelers here. Should sufficient funds be obtained from advance donations and grants, trip costs will be reduced.
A abbreviated program will be available November 4-9 that does not include travel to Irish sites in Matanzas Province with an overnight at Varadero beach. Estimated ground cost $2,500 + $500*.
Write for registration form irishcuba@ffrd.org
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Banda de Gaitas de La Habana. CeltFest 2012
More about the musicians
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| Session at CeltFest, 2012 |
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| Memorial in Havana to the Irish hunger strikers |
Full program (subject to change)
Tuesday 11/4
fly from Cancun to Havana; check in O’Farrill Hotel; dinner
with organizers and hosts
Wednesday 11/5
10:30 am Press conference “Casa de la Amistad”
11:00 am First presentation by Rafael Moya of Irish-Spanish
history in Cuba (17th – 18th century) at Casa de la Amistad (press welcome to
remain)
12:30 light lunch at Casa de la Amistad
2:00 pm Heritage Tour joins Moya in visits to Irish linked locations
2:00 pm Heritage Tour joins Moya in visits to Irish linked locations
4:00 pm Teatro Retazo Welcome and presentation by the dance company of Isabel Bustos, dance presentation
by Niall
6:00 pm dinner,
mojito instruction at Arte Chef
7:30 – 10:00 pm Jazz Café welcoming concert with Asturian
and Galician celtic music groups, Irish dance by Alma Mater from University of
Havana
Thursday 11/6
9:00 am first showing of film “Natural Grace” about fiddler
Martin Hayes at CIDMUC (Spanish subtitles)
10:00 am presentation
at CIDMUC by Mick Moloney on role of music in Irish immigrant experience
12:00 pm light lunch
with key people from Cuban culture
2:00 pm presentation at
CIDMUC by Mick Moloney on Irish traditional music today in the US
4:00 pm showing of film "Absolutely Irish" at CIDMUC
(open evening, possible diplomatic reception)
(Heritage Tour participants
can choose to attend Mick's talks at CIDMUC or join a tour of non Irish sites in Old Havana and visit the museums of Fine Arts and of The Revolution)
Friday 11/7
10:00 am second presentation by Rafael Moya on Irish
and Irish-American history in Cuba (19th-20th century); discussion by Charles
Gavan O’Brien of the film he is making about Dynamite Johnny O’Brien; press
welcome
12:30 pm light lunch at EGREM on way to ISA (Higher
Institute of Art)
2:00 pm Cultural
exchanges at ISA
7:00 pm. Dinner at paledar next to Arunel Theater
8:30 pm Opera de la
Calle
10:30 pm Fabrica de
Arte Cuban music and art
Saturday 11/8
9:30 am Heritage tour visit to Catholic/Santaria church in
Regla, performance by N’sila cheche
12:00 pm Ferry to Habana Vieja
12:30 light lunch at Plaza Vieja
1:30 pm continuation
of walking tour with Rafael Moya to Irish sites in Old Havana; presentation by
architect Miguel Coyula at model of Habana Vieja
4:00 pm handicrafts
market
6:00 pm dinner near concert site
8 pm. public concert (Museo
de Bellas Artes or Sala Covarrubias, Teatro Nacional?)
10:30 pm session with Irish and Cuban musicians at Hotel O'Farrill
Sunday 11/9
musicians depart
Heritage tour visits Irish sites west of Havana in Artemisa Province; free night
to enjoy Buena Vista Social Club, Tropicana or…
Monday 11/10
Visit to Irish sites in provinces east of Havana (Mayabeque and Matanzas)
Hotel Melia Varadero
Tuesday 11/11
Visit to Irish sites in Matanzas
Hotel Melia Varadero
Wednesday 11/12
bus to airport for flight to Cancun
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| Irish related locations |
Cuba/US People to People Partnership
Fund for Reconciliation and Development
(914) 231-6270 irishcuba@ffrd.org
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| Graphic Society of Cienfuegos |
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