A NEW initiative has been launched to give young musicians a chance to improve their rock/pop talents.
Local rock band Q14 wants to mentor you for free if you’re in a band or a musician, through the Youth Music Mentorship Initiative, funded by Kerry County Council and the Arts Council, offered as part of the Kerry Take Note Music Project (www.kerrytakenote.ie)
The mentorship gives young musicians, singers or songwriters the opportunity to improve their standards of pop music performance.
If you, or someone you know is interested, please email Caroline Lynch at Kerry County Council Arts Office (arts@kerrycoco.ie) with an expression of interest and a link to your music.
O’BRENNAN NS in Kielduff showed their caring side on Wednesday when they held a successful fundraising day, with a local rock band providing the entertainment.
The day kicked off with a bake sale run by Sixth Class with money raised going towards buying musical instruments for the school.
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Then the Third and Fourth Class ran a sweet shop to raise money for Animal Health Net Kerry.
All the pupils showed great entrepreneurial skills in their ventures.
The afternoon finished with a performance by local band Q14. Bernard O’Connor, a guitarist with the band, is a former pupil of O’Brennan and the school were delighted to welcome him back.
His sister Fiona is currently a First Class pupil at O’Brennan. The band performed their original material to a very enthusiastic audience.
A fun day for great causes then.
Q14 with pupils at the O’Brennan NS fundraising day on Wednesday.
THE Tralee band behind the singles “Go Betty” and “Star Sign Boy” played a gig in The Meadowlands on Friday night.
Q14 have been receiving a lot of airplay for their singles and they showcased more new material from their forthcoming debut album at the gig.
Fans and family were in attendence to show their support for the lads with special guests Chapter 2 and 12-year-old Guitar/Ukulele virtuoso Micheál Nix making sure the crowd was ready to dance and sing before Q14 took to the stage.
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Paul O’Connor, Louise O’Connor, Hannah Ryan, Fiona O’Connor and Carmelita Ryan at the Q14 gig in The Meadowlands Hotel on Friday. Photo by Oscar BrophyQ14 pictured before their gig in The Meadowlands Hotel on Friday. Photo by Oscar BrophyClodagh Brosnan, Declan Clifford and Brendan Duffin at the Q14 gig in The Meadowlands Hotel on Friday. Photo by Oscar BrophyCiara and Patrick Kelly at the Q14 gig in The Meadowlands Hotel on Friday. Photo by Oscar BrophySonia O’Sullivan and James Foley at the Q14 gig in The Meadowlands Hotel on Friday. Photo by Oscar BrophyVicky O’Sullivan, Kaydon O’Sullivan, Joseph O’Connor, James O’Connor, Kinga Grunau, Elaine O’Connor at the Q14 gig in The Meadowlands Hotel on Friday. Photo by Oscar Brophy
Donal Walsh wanted his message to #LiveLife to be spread in an effort to promote positivity.
TALENTED Tralee band, Q14, have penned a touching tribute to the late Donal Walsh with the release of their song and accompanying video ‘Star Sign Boy.’
The video serves to try and highlight the different things that have influenced different people in their lives and how sometimes, these things may be taken for granted.
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You can be the judge for yourself when you watch the video below.
The band, which is up made of John O’ Connor, Jay Dalligan and Bernard O’ Connor recently played at the ‘Live Life Love’ event which was held in Fels Point Hotel here in town. The event was set up to help promote the positive message that Donal was trying to spread.
TraleeToday.ie spoke to John O’Connor about the reasoning behind why he wrote the song and the message that they are hoping to spread through it.
“I wrote the song for Donal, I knew him personally. I wrote it almost as a fantasy so to speak. If I could have a conversation with him now in Heaven and what would it be like. To find out where he is at now in the afterlife, that is the basic essence of the song.”
Q14 penned the song ‘Star Sign Boy’ as a tribute to Donal Walsh.
The band recently took some time away from the day modern day trappings, holing themselves up as they worked on new material for their album. This time ‘off’ so to speak, gave them time to think and allowed them to reflect on the things that are important them.
“We knew the people who had the biggest impacts on our lives, and for me personally, Donal was one of them.”
“We thought, why not engage other people to say the person that has influenced their life the most. Donal was someone that really influenced us.”
They’re hoping that their song, in its own small way can help people to maybe appreciate things a little more in their own lives and to try and take heed of the #LiveLife message being spread by the ‘Donal Walsh Foundation’.
TWO Kerry players swapped the floodlights for the stage lights when they jammed with local band Q14 to publicise a concert to be held for ‘The Kerry Friends of Melanoma Awareness’ in the INEC, Killarney.
Fresh from All-Ireland success, Kieran Donaghy and Marc O’Se, caught up with the Tralee act at their studio to help promote the charity concert.
“They were great craic,” said lead singer of Q14, Bernard O’Connor.
“We gave Marc a ukulele and Kieran a guitar and they hammered away at it, they also learned a few lyrics of the song and pitched in there as well,” said Bernard.
Marc and Kieran were with Q14 for around two hours as they were also recording promos for the concert for Radio Kerry which will take place on Sunday, October 12.
‘The Kerry Friends of Melanoma Awareness’ are organising a the concert to raise vital funds for Consultant Medical Oncologist, Prof McCaffrey’s Research Fund at the Mater Hospital.
For more information check out ‘The Kerry Friends of Melanoma Awareness’ Facebook page (Click Here)
Watch the Kerry lads strutting their stuff in the video below.
