The Galway Comedy Festival, the Róisín Dubh, and Monroe’s Live are among the businesses which are set to benefit from more than €1.3 million in funding for Galway under the Live Performance Support Scheme.
The aim of the Live Performance Support Scheme 2021 is to support the creation of employment and wellbeing opportunities in the live performance sector and the generation of high quality artistic output.
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Ten Galway events have today been granted a total of over €1.3 million under the scheme: Galway Comedy Festival (€199,931 ); Róisín Dubh (€182,021 ); a series of concerts run by the independent Galway record label, Strange Brew (€185,122 ); Gemstone live music events (€169,254 ); The Black Gate Cultural Centre (€131,992 ); Monroe’s Live (€130,114 ); Milestone Inventive (€126,941 ); Trad on the Prom (€95,205 ); country singer Mike Denver (€64,634 ), and the CelloVision Project (€31,735 ).
The funding has been welcomed by Fine Gael Galway West TD and Minister of State, Hildegarde Naughton. “It is vital to support the live entertainment sector in Galway and develop opportunities for continued activity,” she said.
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The Minister added: “The funding will assist promoters in planning events for this year. People, rightly, place a high premium on live experiences. After all, no two events are exactly the same. Spending time with family and friends at a live performance creates a shared experience that has been missing from our lives during the course of the pandemic.”
Fine Gael Senator Sean Kyne also welcomed the allocation, saying: “The past 18 months have been very difficult for many sectors, not least the arts and entertainment sector with many events cancelled or postponed. The allocations for Galway will support music concerts and gigs and theatre performances such as The Playboy of the Western World.”
