The festival is over but the music lives on! Check out these four special tracks from cellists Lioba Petrie, Kate Ellis, Mary Barnecutt & Laura McFadden. All part of spikers. Mixed and mastered here. spikecellofest.com/cello-daze

Listen back here to last Saturday's Week in Review nearfm.ie/podcast/week-i… Near FM Ken Kilbride Sarah Bermingham Mary Barnecutt spikers Margarita Cappock Liz Roche Company

:: SPIKE CELLO FESTIVAL 2024 :: Opening Night Friday 9th Feb 8.00pm Tickets: spikecellofest.com ✨Featured Artists: FIRL✨ Long-time collaborators Gay Yee Westerhoff and Eos Counsell from global sensation Bond make their debut appearance at the Sugar Club as FIRL.

:: SPIKE CELLO FESTIVAL 2024 :: Opening Night Friday 9th Feb spikecellofest.com Naomi Berrill Trio NBT present their recently released album “Inish” a jazz-based rumination on islands, the strength and courage of the inhabitants. #RTESupportingTheArts

✨Join us for a night of conversations about music, women and cello at the Fumbally Cafe titled “Who Let Her Sit Like That?” Featuring: Katie Tertell, Artistic Director and Founder of the Appalachian Chamber Music Festival

CLASSICAL! Our monthly guide to some of the best Classical music happenings in Dublin. Curated by Cliodhna Ryan The Goo is FREE to pick up in all good places in Dublin. Visit Dublin The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Culture_Ireland Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media Dublin Dublin City Council Totally Dublin

✨Yocella- cello & yoga Sunday 11th Feb 3-5pm St Andrew’s Resource Centre, Dublin eventbrite.ie/e/yocella-at-s… Join Kitty Maguire for soothing Yin Yoga with cellos - with Spike cellists to create music for the celebrated class through drones, improvisations & alternative classics.

Spike Cello Fest 2024 spikers in venues across Dublin, 9-11 Feb: featuring Naomi Berrill Trio, FIRL, Natalie Haas, Cellophonics, and more goldenplec.com/?p=262834

Pick up TheGOO around town and turn to page 35 for my classical column, featuring everything from the epic forces of Mahler 2, to the experimental music of Kirkos Ensemble, the internationally renowned Britten Sinfonia and Ailish Tynan, and spikers.

✨Sundays at Noon | The Hugh Lane Gallery Sunday 11th February 2024 12.00pm Featuring: Cellophonics Champions of all things cello, Christopher Allan, Michael Atkinson, Adrian Bradbury & Ben Rogerson make up the cello quartet Cellophonics. Book now: spikecellofest.com

:: SPIKE CELLO FESTIVAL 2024 :: ‘Who Let Her Sit Like That?’ Saturday 12th February 2024 8.00pm Tickets: spikecellofest.com Music + Conversation with Katie Tertell (Durham University) and (Natalie Haas) with special guests Ben Cashell and Catríona #rtesupportingthearts

Looking for weekend plans?spikers will take over The Ark this Sat 10 Feb! Experience a thrilling music & storytelling performance based on tales of Grace O’Malley, Ireland's "pirate queen", or catch a FREE mini cello concert by Cellophonics🎼 🎟️👉ark.ie

🪩🎻 O P E N I N G N I G H T 🎻🪩 Thanks everyone who celebrated alternative cello music with us last night! Plenty more pop-ups + events this weekend: spikecellofest.com

:: OPENING NIGHT :: Full house for FIRL + Naomi Berrill trio last night. Catch Naomi today at 2pm + 4pm at The Ark Dublin ⚓️ Jam packed pop-ups + events today + tomorrow 🫶🏻 spikecellofest.com

:: HAIR PEACE :: Mary Barnecutt + Andy Ingamells listen + respond to Near FM at a pop-up hairdressers at Unit 44 / Kirkos Ensemble . Plenty more cello-mania for all hair types today + tomorrow ✂️ Stoneybatter Pride of Place

:: SEA WARRIOR :: Catch Naomi Berrill - Not only Cellist again today at 4pm The Ark Dublin 🌊⚓️ spikecellofest.com

Listening to wonderful @NatalieHaas83, Katie Tertell & Naomi Berrill - Not only Cellist talk about their intro to music, looking fwd to their music later & loving stories of women in world of cello as part of spikers “Who let her sit like that?” gig @ Fumbally café The Liberties Dublin FairPlé

🪩🧘🏻‍♀️YOCELLA ~ CELLO + YOGA🧘🏻‍♀️🪩 The perfect festival unwind 👌🏻 See you on the mat x spikecellofest.com

🪩SPIKE CELLO FESTIVAL🪩 Huge thank you to all our wonderful performers, venues, and audiences for living and breathing all things alternative cello with us last weekend🤍 GRMA @artscouncilireland for the generous support! Stay tuned for more highlights + for SPIKE 2025!