As part of the FUAIM Festival organised by the School Of Music & Theatre UCC and running from 21^st -23 March The Quiet Club plus guests will give a performance in the Sculpture Room in The Crawford Gallery on Sat 22^nd @ 3pm.

The Quiet Club (Mick O’Shea & Danny McCarthy) are regarded as the leading sound art/improve groups in the country and have performed worldwide from USA to China. They perform using a wide variety of sound making devices including many homemade instruments. Their work has been described in the Journal Of Music as “The brilliance of the Quiet Club, the Cork-based 'entity' of Danny McCarthy and Mick O'Shea, is best apprehended live. Their CD, Tesla, is fascinating and enjoyable, but all the more so after watching their performance at the Goethe Institute in Dublin” Seán Ó Máille (Journal Of Music Vol1 No 2)

Their guests on this occasion are the two renowned Cork based poets Sarah Hayden and Rachel Warriner who will perform VOXMARMOREAL a sculpture poem for two voices. The poets previously performed with The Quiet Club at the INTONARUMORI Concert presented in Dec 2013 in the Crawford Gallery and the O’Riada Hall UCC.

Their second guest on Sat will be the London based Elaine Mitchener (Contralto). Elaine is one of the world’s leading improvising vocalists and has performed with some of the world’s leading musicians including Tom Arthurs, Steve Beresford, John Butcher, Olly Coates,  Dam van Huynh, Max Eastley, Bobby Few, Luca Francesconi, Heiner Goebbels,Christian Marclay, Oren Marshall, Joanna McGregor, Phil Minton, David Moss, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Lauren Newton, Maggie Nichols, Evan Parker, Mark Sanders, David Toop and Jason Yarde.

She is currently working with The Quiet Club on “The Last Siren” a new Arts Council funder experimental opera by the Irish composer Ian Wilson.