Kilkenny Champions Announced for ‘Three Sisters 2020’ Bid
Mick McAuley, Tomm Moore and Siobhan Donohoe call on the people of Kilkenny to share their Vision to win the Title
Irish Trad musician Mick McAuley, one of the founders of Cartoon Saloon Tomm Moore and Irish TV presenter Siobhan Donohoe are championing the Three Sisters 2020 Bid and are now calling on the people of Kilkenny to share their vision for the European Capital of Culture 2020 in order to help win the title.
Four regions in Ireland are currently competing for the European Capital of Culture title for 2020. The South East region of Waterford, Wexford and Kilkenny under the Three Sisters 2020 banner are putting their best foot forward to win the title which has a €1.5 million prize along with the prestigious title. To win, the people of the region need to demonstrate their ambition and desire to host the Capital of Culture in 2020 by sharing their ideas and vision for a proposed calendar of cultural events, which would take place here in 2020.
World famous musician Mick McAuley shares his passion for the winning of the title in 2020 and the global influence of Trad music from the South East region. In his video for the Three Sisters 2020 Bid filmed at ‘The Hole in the Wall’ Mick says “Irish Music has travelled throughout the world and luckily us players have travelled throughout the world too and having travelled to play music I have experienced many different culture. It also makes me realise the uniqueness of our own culture in the South East region and having sat in formal music session all over the world including Osaka and Tokyo and played the tunes I learned as a child with musicians who have never even been to Ireland, such is the reach of traditional Irish music and particularly some of the music from the Southeast region.”
Mick is joined in his passion for winning the title by one of the founders of Cartoon Saloon Tomm Moore. Speaking about his passion for Kilkenny and he encourages the people of the region to get behind the Bid. Tomm says, “I’m very proud to be living and working here in Kilkenny. Kilkenny has fantastic art and craft and music and filming making, it is a very creative region. I was very lucky to grow up here. It would be fantastic to win this Bid, it would be brilliant for all of the creative industries here in Kilkenny and this region, we are a little hidden gem and we have music, comedy art and lots of different creative activities going on here and I think its going to shine a spotlight on all of those and open up a collaboration and cross pollination with out European partners. It would be really fantastic for the region.”
Kilkenny native, PR consultant and Irish TV Presenter Siobhan Donohoe is also championing the Bid and asking the people of Kilkenny to join her. Siobhan wants to share the enormous food culture of Kilkenny, in her video at Goatsbridge Trout farm. “Waterford, Wexford and Kilkenny have put so much work into telling our tourism story over the last number of years in particular and it really would be all of the candles on the Birthday cake and a huge celebration if we win the European Capital of Culture title in 2020, it would firmly place us on a European Platform.”
The people of the region have just a matter of weeks to log onto ThreeSisters2020.ie and share their idea or sign the petition, as the Bid will be submitted by late September. Social media users can also show their support by following @3Sisters2020 on Twitter and Three Sisters 2020 on Facebook and Instagram.