Girls* Rock! Ireland Fundraiser at the Stags Head this Sunday!

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Hurrah! This Sunday sees the first fundraiser of Girls* Rock! Ireland!

It takes place in the upstairs room of the Stags Head in Dublin, which is located at 1 Dame Court, Dublin 2 and is part of the Popical Island March residency. Entrance is 8 euros and 6 euros for students, unwaged and old aged pensioners and it kicks off at 8.30pm.

On the bill are the wonderful September Girls:

aswell as the supremely melodic Cave Ghosts:

Cave Ghosts, Irish Music, bands from ireland, girls rock camp ireland, girls rock ireland, girls rock, female musicians, dublin music

I can’t find the photographer credit for this, please let me know if you have it!

and HUNK!

Thanks to Popical Island and our very own Ewa Gigon for making this happen!
Also, here is the link to the fb event page.

About Girls* Rock! Ireland

Girls Rock Camp Ireland wants to empower women* and girls* to discover their musical and artistic possibilities. ✓ Form Bands ✓ Write Songs ✓ Rock Out ✓

Not just in the music industry in Ireland, but in many different musical contexts women* and girls* are often assigned stereotypical roles of singer, fan or groupie and their presence is questioned.

We want to change that! We want to empower women* and girls* to discover their musical and artistic possibilities through learning instruments, writing songs, forming bands and performing. We want to demonstrate that every genre of music and every technical job and creative endeavor can be available to any girl* or women* that wants to explore it. We want to destroy the traditions and eradicate the myths that prevent women* and girls* from participating in the (until now) male dominated Irish and international music scene.

History: The first Girls Rock Camp was set up in Portland, Oregon, U.S. in 2001. Now there are over 40 rock camps in the U.S., aswell as Popkollo in Sweden, Ruby Tuesday in Berlin, Austria, Paris. Every summer, girls* participate in camps where they learn instruments, write songs, form bands, perform and rock out!

Want to know more?

If you are interested in hearing more about Girls* Rock! as it develops, please subscribe to our general mailing list (we only send out when something is really happening and never spam)




Interested in volunteering?

Thinking about being a band coach, instrument coach, doing some organisation work, devising our programme, being part of a street team, writing funding applications, can you set us up with a dot ie web address, help design and build a website, do you love cooking for feminists, do you have ideas for a location, experienced in anti-discrimination and inclusion work, all the things we surely haven’t thought of yet? Please send a mail to girlsrockcampireland (at) gmail.com and be explicit about what you would like to do! Please note women* and trans* will be prioritised for leadership positions.

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About yom

Maebh Murphy grew up in Waterford, Ireland and lives in Berlin, Germany. As a teenager, she participated in outreach programmes by Waterford Youth Arts and developed a taste for writing, acting, directing, dance and theatre. At Trinity College, Dublin she studied English Literature and Drama Studies. In 2006 she was a founding member of the "audiodetour" project, making mp3 choreographed audio guides in Dublin, Edinburgh, Berlin and New York. In 2007 she formed the band You're Only Massive, who have released several records on vinyl, cassette and itunes and played concerts in Europe and North America. Since 2011 she have been working with Ruby Tuesday e.v. Berlin as a band coach, instrument coach and organizer of music camps for people discriminated against on the basis of gender, and is currently in the process of setting up Girls* Rock! Ireland. She is a catalyst of Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Interests include electronic music, synthesizers, feminism, classism, the girls rock movement and veganism.