Musician Adrian Crowley has co-curated the programme of music at this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival. The festival – which runs from June 21st to July 1st in various venues across the city – will include Bowerbird, a two-day event that sees folk artists selected by Crowley and promoter Gary Sheehan of Note Productions.

The show on June 29th will feature Andy Irvine, Sam Amidon, Serafina Steer and a set by Crowley.

In the June 30th show Aidan Moffat will team up with Scottish jazz musician Bill Wells, and there will also be performances by Martin Carthy, Serafina Steer and Moffat's former bandmate Malcolm Middleton, who is doing a new instrumental and ambient project dubbed Human Don't Be Angry.

Crowley, who will release his sixth solo album I See Three Birds Flying worldwide on Chemikal Underground this autumn, said that he and Sheehan found it easy to select the artists they wanted to involve.

"They are people who inspire me and who I hold dear," he said. corkmidsummer.com