Inside West Cork Music’s €20m plan for a new cultural and performance hub in Bantry
West Cork Literary Festival director Eimear O'Herlihy and West Cork Music chief executive and Chamber Music Festival director Francis Humphrys at Vaughans Point, Bantry. The town is an eclectic cultural hub across the summer. Picture: Darragh Kane
How did you get a theorbo onto an airplane? You buy it a seat.
It might sound like a line from a bad cracker joke but it was a very real problem for West Cork Music, the organisers of the West Cork Chamber Festival, which got underway on Friday heralding a three-festival season worth €4.74m annually to the local economy.
