If there is a music lover in your life in need of a Christmas gift, tickets are now available for Music for Galway’s 22nd Midwinter Festival at the Town Hall Theatre from Friday, January 23, to Sunday, January 25.
For 2026, the festival seeks to celebrate the versatility of the string quartet and to ‘extend it’ by pairing it up with a variety of different musicians to perform quartets, quintets, sextets and even an octet to finish.
A celebration of the great musicians Ireland has to offer, the festival presents ConTempo Quartet, Gealán Quartet, clarinettist Macdara O’Séireadáin , Galway’s own soprano Aisling Kenny, pianist Aileen Cahill and uilleann piper Padraic Keane. Young Cellissimo Ambassador, Spanish cellist Margarita Guerrero Martínez, will participate in one of the concerts.
The Midwinter Festival is presented in association with the University of Galway and with the support of Galway City Council. ConTempo Quartet is presented by MusicConnects.
Standard Ticket prices for the concerts start at €20, with 10 per cent concession to people aged over 66.
Solidarity Tickets are available from €10 to children, students, job seekers, disability and carer allowance recipients, as well as to people seeking refuge.
There is a festival ticket available at €75 / concession €67.50.
See www.musicforgalway.ie or call Town Hall Theatre 091 569777.
