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Hank Wedel and Ray Barron: Monday Nights at Charlies since 1994, Charlies, Union Quay, Cork (2025)

2 men
Since February, 1994
100’s of guests
1000s of songs
and a few broken strings

Hank & Ray’s Monday night session
at Charlies, Union Quay, Cork City...
As 1993 turned into 1994
Mary Rob was Irish Prez
Albert was Taoiseach
Bubba Bill was POTUS
Major John was The UKPM
The EEC had just became
The EC, national currencies
were still tender...
hard borders still existed....
Hank Wedel and Ray B

arron
were about to start
a Monday Night residency
at Charlies Bar Union Quay
In Cork City
for Majella Bradley

In between then and now
There have been Wars,
Ceasefires, Famines,
Erupting Volcanoes,
Tsunamis, Comets, 9-11
Celtic Tigers, Booms, Busts, Recessions, Bank Failures
Bushes, Blairs, Berties, Endas
Peace Processes, Arab Springs
Referenda, The Internet,
moblie phones, The EU, the euro,
Roy Keane, Riverdance,
Donald Trump, Brexit
the decline of old media and
the rise of social media
Friends have arrived
Friends have disappeared
Kids have been born
Kids have grown up
There are grandkids now...
Charlie’s staff, Charlie’s Angel’s
Charlies Soldier’s have enlisted, resigned, opened earlier,
closed late, re-enlisted, flown away
swam back upstream The Riverly
River Lee or floated out
and settled downstream....

For any musician, music lover or casual guest ‘the session’
is the cornerstone of live music. One of Cork’s finest and longest running sessions has been the Hank & Ray session held every Monday night in Charlies Bar on Union Quay. Americana, Rock & Roll, Bluegrass and Folk remain the foundations of the session but on the structure is an open house where many people have been joining in, singing along or simply soaking it all in. Hank Wedel and Ray Barron, full time musicians their whole lives have busked around Europe, toured the world
with their respective bands
"Princes Street" and "Open Kitchen",
(Hank Wedel);
"Bone Idol", "Two Time Polka"
(Ray Barron) and somehow they both still manage to make it back every Monday as a constant in a particular corner of a bar on a quay in Cork... and if one of them does not make it back, the other one holds it down...
if neither of them make it back...
there many Cork Muso duos to call upon...
who gladly defend the fort...

The beauty of the session is that you can never be sure what will happen whilst Ray plays his mandolin and Hank plays guitar and sings as they pull songs from their never ending setlist. The guests they have had fall in over the years have featured names like
John Spillane, Mick Flannery, Johnny Moynihan,
Mary Greene, Eileen Healy, Eleanor Healy, Anna Mitchell
Elly O'Keefe, Clare Sands, and Declan Sinnott;
Also countless touring musicians
New York’s Tom Clark and Craig Chesler,
Nashville's Roni Stoneman
Amsterdam’s Andre Van der Hoff
and France’s Serge Desaunay...
and pretty much every Cork based up and coming musician
since 1994! Dates have gone well there; marriages found and prolonged, connections made and generations of the same family have regularly attended at Hank & Ray’s session,
a weekly occurrence that will not be ending for a long time yet.

30/09/2024

OK all you hipsters
at the back of the class
pay attention to the GOSPEL truth...
Written by an American Songwriter
Marijohn Wilkins AND...her protegé
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

I was 14 when this was a hit in
1977-78 Ireland
And I mean a HIT...
you could NOT escape it...
There are people reading this
in Ireland, and elsewhere,
who know every nuance
of this recording of this song
It remains THE most successful
chart single EVER in Ireland
90 weeks in the Top 30...
Sweet Jesus, indeed...
Eleanor Healy and I would sometimes
sing this at gigs in simple harmony
and it was like hypnosis...
everyone knew it and sang along...
I'm a sang it TONIGHT! at Hank Wedel and Ray Barron: Monday Nights at Charlies since 1994

Much is made of Kris' connection
to Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan
and while all that is true,
his connection to Marijohn
is where he really found success...
Marijohn is an interesting case
She wrote some great songs...
"Cut Across Shorty" and
"Long Black Veil" among them...
read about her quiet but powerful
songwriting abilities here...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijohn_Wilkin

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29/09/2024

Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge Help me make it through the night live on The Old Grey Whistle Test. 1972

17/09/2024

Once again, Marian Quirke leads
Charlie's Monday Night on the
Sierra Ferrell anthem
As you see can here, Liam O'Maonlai
fresh from City Hall the night before,
joined in and sang with us at last night
along with
Marian Quirke at the end of the rainbow,
Ruti Lachs on the side trombone
and Annie O'Neill in from Seattle
feelin' the heartbeat of the city
along with Sean Long on guitar
and a cameo from Stuart Wilde...
A Divine Feminine Hippie Mystical Buzz
on Union Quay for free...
Dunno if that's the kinda buzz
ya wanna catch but hey!
Theys worse ways and places to be
than at Charlies on a Monday Night, right?

Gotta say THANKS! to both
The Positive Spirit of Sheena Crowley
and The Ghost of Rory Gallagher
for setting up the environment
for this to happen...
City Hall on Sunday Night was
a blast from the past for Rory at last
in Cork City
I hope they raise all they need
to get the guitar back Leeside

Hank Wedel Music and Song Page
Marian Quirke Ruti Lachs Music
Seán Long

Keep an eye out for more videos
along the way...

Address

Charlies, Union Quay
Cork
T12A376

Opening Hours

Monday

4pm - 11:30pm

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Once again, Marian Quirke leads Charlie's Monday Night on the Sierra Ferrell anthem

"At The End of The Rainbow"

Once again, Marian Quirke leads Charlie's Monday Night on the Sierra Ferrell anthem As you see can here, Liam O'Maonlai fresh from City Hall the night before, joined in and sang with us at last night along with Marian Quirke at the end of the rainbow, Ruti Lachs on the side trombone and Annie O'Neill in from Seattle feelin' the heartbeat of the city along with Sean Long on guitar and a cameo from Stuart Wilde... A Divine Feminine Hippie Mystical Buzz on Union Quay for free... Dunno if that's the kinda buzz ya wanna catch but hey! Theys worse ways and places to be than at Charlies on a Monday Night, right? Gotta say THANKS! to both The Positive Spirit of Sheena Crowley and The Ghost of Rory Gallagher for setting up the environment for this to happen... City Hall on Sunday Night was a blast from the past for Rory at last in Cork City I hope they raise all they need to get the guitar back Leeside #liamomaonlai #annieoneill #RoryGallagher #SierraFerrell Hank Wedel Music and Song Page Marian Quirke Ruti Lachs Music Seán Long #sheenacrowley Keep an eye out for more videos along the way...

Hank Wedel and Ray Barron: Monday Nights at Charlies since 1994