Celtic Club Presents: An Evening of Poetry & Music, Hosted by Sean O'Callaghan
Join us for a captivating evening showcasing a selection of local poets, complemented by musical interludes throughout the night. Hosted by the talented Sean O'Callaghan, this event promises to be a celebration of both poetry and music. Free event - registration required.
About our contributors:
MICHAEL PARDY is a fifth generation Australian descended from Paddy "the Blacksmith" Arundell who left County Cork for the Ballarat gold fields in 1855 and eventually settled around Koroit in Victoria's western district. Michael took an honors degree in Literature and Linguistics from the University of Melbourne and has enjoyed creative writing all his life. Michael has won various awards and published short stories, plays, a novel, and a comic book. Currently Michael is working on a volume of poetry exclusively about golf. He will debut some of this poetry at the gig.
MICHAEL MILDREN Multi-instrumentalist, working over 30 years as a Therapeutic Music Practitioner in Aged Care, Michael has also played in bands and solo, including Big Day Out and All sorts. Recently returning to his folk roots, Michael will be presenting a selection of original folk songs, accompanied by accordion. Michael is a proud Celtic mongrel, Cornish, Irish, Scottish and Danish to top it off. In true folk tradition Michael’s songs explore philosophy, politics and love gone wrong.
LAUREN WILLIAMS Poet, singer, songwriter, old school rapper, writer of letters to newspapers, local council harasser, moved from Melbourne to central Victoria 18 years ago. Mother’s mother’s mother, Irish. And all the mothers before her.
SANDY CALDOW Is a visual artist and writer who works across a range of media including visual art, poetry, public art, and music. Themes in her works include empathy, the environment, technology, feminism and about finding quietude amongst the chaos.
TT.O. Is a famous poet, Anarchist, pioneer of performance poetry in Australia, winner of the Patrick White Literary Award 2024
SEAN O'CALLAGHAN Is a poet who carries around notepads and pretends to write in them in case anyone asks him what he does. When he tells them he writes poems, that is usually enough for people to leave him alone. Hailing from South Armagh in Northern Ireland, when his friends and family found out he was writing poems or becoming an artist-poet, they laughed in his face, which meant he truly felt he was on to something worthwhile. Sean contradicts himself a lot and is almost always wrong, which makes for some interesting poems, in the main.