IAF Fundraising Events 2024 - Everyone Welcome
The IAF is run entirely by volunteers and all money raised goes to supporting emerging artists in South Australia
If you would like to support the arts in South Australia, please join us. Event listings below in date order
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An evening of traditional Scottish music, song and cuisine marking the 750th anniversary of the birth of Robert the Bruce 1274 - 1329, King of Scotland 1306 - 1329 at the Osmond Terrace Function Centre 11th July 2024, 6.30 - 9.30pm
Featuring internationally renowned fiddler CATHERINE FRASER and guitarist THOMAS MARTIN. Poems and songs by MICHAEL McGREGOR
Includes a delicious three course meal of traditional Scottish fare
featuring Cullen Skink, Cock-a-Leekie soup, Salmon Auld Reekie, Fife Bannock, Rumbledethumps, Cranachan and more
Vegetarian options available. For a full menu, click here
A special menu of Scottish drinks will be availble to buy from the bar
Scots/Australian fiddler Catherine Fraser has gained a reputation as a world-class performer and teacher, and presents the music of her heritage with finesse, passion and sensitivity. She has given performances in Scotland, Canada, North America, New Zealand and of course around Australia. Constantly in demand for concerts and workshops and acknowledged for her ability to combine a high level of technical skill with a rare depth of emotional expression, Catherine has gained the respect of audiences and students alike.
In 2004 Catherine founded the Southern Hemisphere International School of Scottish Fiddle and was the director for eleven years. She is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the South Australian Music Industry Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Folk Music in 1996 & 1997 and Open Fiddle Champion, Kirriemuir, Scotland 2005.
Michael McGregor has been involved in music his whole life. He was the chair for the Frances Folk Gathering for its last seven years and he has been active in the South Australian folk music scene since the 1980s. He is a singer and plays many instruments. He is currently active with two bands, Brushwood and McHarg Creek and with them has performed in recent years in festivals here and in Victoria. He has also had an active involvement in Scottish culture as a dancer and musician. His group, Romany Soup, played for a number of years for the annual ball for the SA Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.
Literary Dinner Tuesday, 23 July 2024 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm
Please join us for the next IAF Literary Dinner of 2024, kindly sponsored by Wakefield Press
Our guest speaker has a PhD in archaeology from Flinders University. Her main research interests are Irishness and the Irish diaspora, with a focus on the Irish Australian experience and the material lives of those Irish who migrated across the globe after the Great Famine. She was born and raised in Ireland but has lived mostly in South Australia since 1987. She is Dr Susan Arthure
Irish Women in the Antipodes: Foregrounded is a collection of Irish women's contributions to life in the Antipodes, stories that have been neglected or insufficiently acknowledged. The contributors have used all available tools to find these women in the archives, public records, newspapers, and family histories, taking them from the proverbial footnotes of history to the foreground. The first seven chapters focus on Irish women in South Australia, an under-researched group among the Irish diaspora regardless of gender, and while there are new accounts of women that readers may know of such as Mary Lee and Bee Walshe, this volume introduces us to many more of these pioneering women whose hidden lives have now been brought to the fore.
Cheryl Appelkamp de Valenzuela, Convenor Michael Bollen is guest compere
Location - OSMOND TERRACE FUNCTION CENTRE, NORWOOD HOTEL97 THE PARADE, NORWOOD
Tickets are $40 for IAF members, $45 for non-members
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