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Save the Date IMMA SUMMER PARTY - 15-16 July 2022
CONTINUOUS PATTERNS Two days of Music & Art in the grounds of IMMA The IMMA Summer Party is back, offering live music, DJs, art, delicious food, interesting drinks and some very special surprises over two languid mid summer evenings of fun and atmosphere in the RHK. It’s titled ‘Continuous Patterns’, marking the continued growth and evolution of the city’s vibrant artistic community and is programmed by the wonderful Homebeat, the people behind one of the country’s most gorgeous boutique festivals, Another Love Story. Fridays acts include Rnb voice Éfe, Dundalk’s brilliant Negro Impacto, the elegant and powerful combination of AE MAK X Glasshouse, the DJ/Producer R.Kitt and a Very Special Guest TBA. Saturday’s more relaxed line up includes ukulele collective Rugs, rising folk presence O Deer, the riotous Stomptown Brass, a Very Special Guest TBA and a wonderful collaboration between folk stars Ye Vagabonds and composer and multi instrumentalist Gareth Quinn Redmond. Both evenings are soundtracked across the grounds by some select selectors - Today Fm’s Clare Beck, The Small Hours’ Donal Dineen, emerging Japanese / Irish selector Emmy Shigeta and the breezy sounds of Desert Island Disco. We caught up with Homebeat head honcho Emmet Condon as the Festival was launched. Is this the first time you have curated the IMMA Summer Party? Yes! Last summer we ran a series of small open air shows on the garden terrace called Emerging Patterns (are you beginning to see a pattern here), which were a small burst of joy, and a reminder of what an amazing and integral space IMMA is. Just by the very fabric of the space and what happens there, means there is a sense of occasion and an extra weight to events that happen there, especially in the surroundings of the museum and the gardens - it is really one of Dublin’s iconic venues. Allied to that I have really fond memories of the IMMA Summer Party over the years - IMMA Rising was one of the first gigs of its ilk that I was ever invited to dj at (big thanks the amazing Aoife Flynn) - that was an elegant affair and PAGE 16 a real stand out in my memory of events in Dublin, so it is really an honour and a feather in our Homebeat cap to get to programme the wider space - I am genuinely excited about it. The venue is such an iconic institution with progressive values, is that something that was on your mind when you were asked to curate this event or was the brief more defined? Yes, I agree - I think the progressive values is the key point there. There is something about a gallery space that shapes how I approach a music programme, I think the very essence of a gallery - providing a blank space for art, means that there is a freedom and a responsibility to push the envelope to some degree, while also remaining accessible and interesting to the wider public - that, in essence is really my approach to programming music, whether it be through Homebeat or Another Love Story - I think you can, though the gentle and sometimes dark art of programming bring a wider audience to amazing