Summer at The Dock brings outdoor music and fashion icon documentary to Carrick on Shannon 

Embark on a voyage of sound with music from Natalia Beylis, Sharon Phelan, and Aoife Hammond on July 14 at 8pm in The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon. All three musicians pull from a variety of sources to create music that is at once otherworldly and familiar. This line-up of musicians will kick off Summer at The Dock, an outdoor programme of music, spoken word, and film screenings.

Leitrim-based singer, composer, and instrumentalist, Aoife Hammond plays with post-punk and punk bands Extravision and Surge, and as a solo artist, composes original electronic and acoustic scores using synths, bouzouki, guitars, mandolin, and vocals, in response to folk stories, traditional song, and experimental video.

Natalia’s music revolves around sonic story-telling and multi-instrumental exploration. While she regularly records on a variety of traditional instruments (mainly pianos, organs, keyboards, and mandola), she is just as likely to use non-musical sound sources within her compositions, such as bird songs, creaky trees, farm animals, and rainfall.

Sharon Phelan is a Dublin-based artist whose work spans performance, installation, writing, and composition. With specific attention to sound, voice, resonance, and poetics of place, her practice engages with ways of listening, field recording, and the bodily movement of language.

The first outdoor film screening for Summer at The Dock is ‘Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist’. This documentary takes an intimate look at the extraordinary life of punk, icon, and activist Vivienne Westwood.

Since igniting the punk movement with ex-partner and Sex Pistols’ manager Malcolm McLaren, Dame Vivienne Westwood has been redefining British fashion for over 40 years and is responsible for creating many of the most distinctive looks of our time.

This film blends archive, beautifully crafted reconstruction, and insightful interviews with Vivienne’s fascinating network of collaborators, guiding us on her journey from a childhood in postwar Derbyshire to the runways of Paris and Milan.

Lorna Tucker’s debut film is an intimate and poignant homage to one of the true cultural icons of our time as she fights to maintain her brand’s integrity, principles, and legacy in a business driven by consumerism, profit, and global expansion.

Tickets are available at www.thedock.ie or call 071 965 0828.