Hard Working Class Heroes 2010
Ireland’s Leading Festival for New Irish Music
Thursday 7 / Friday 8 / Saturday 9 October
across Dublin -Andrews Lane Theatre, The Button Factory, The Mercantile, Pravda, Sweeney’s, Twisted Pepper and The Workmans Club
Hard Working Class Heroes returns to the streets of Dublin over the weekend of Thursday 7th - Saturday 9th October for its 8th consecutive year.
Taking place in Dublin City Centre the festival is now once again calling on the best of Ireland’s bands to register to secure a slot to play at the event.
Applications will be through FMC’s own “Breaking Tunes” site (log on to www.hwch.net and click on the “Bands Apply Here” button). Closing date for applications is July 30.The judging panel for applications will be made up of writers, A&R and music industry people from around the globe as well as international festival programmers.
Once again, Ireland’s photographers are being called on to submit their finest music related shots for a chance to feature in a HWCH Photographers Exhibition. Photographers’ applications will also be via www.hwch.net – simply click on the “Photographers Apply Here” button and follow the instructions. This year’s call for photographers will add the renowned photographer Glen E. Friedman to the judging panel.
And keeping up its high standard of additional events and activities there will be HWCH panels, mentor sessions and more with a host of international delegates on hand to share their wisdom and experience (thanks to the generous support of The Arts Council, and Culture Ireland). As always Hard Working Class Heroes promises a spectacular collection of music and fun for the whole weekend.
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The festival website (www.hwch.net) is now live and will provide constant updates on the festival as it unfolds in the lead up to October 7th 8th and 9th.
HWCH And The City’ proved an amazing success last year with bands and HWCH taking over the city centre in coffee shops, book shops and many more places playing free gigs. Keep an eye on hwch.net for news on exciting new ways we will be involving you.
This year organisers are inviting Re-Dress into the wonderful world of emerging talent that is HWCH. Re-Dress is a one stop shop organization for the promotion of sustainable fashion and aims to move Irish consumers and industry towards better fashion choices, The idea for swapping band t-shirts at the launch is our way of introducing Re-dress to you, you’ll be hearing more from them over the weekend . .
There are plenty of other treats and surprises in store so be sure to keep an eye on www.hwch.net