Sound+Vision: Ballina’s annual film festival returns
Fri, Jul 13, 2012
Sound+Vision Ballina Arts Centre’s annual film festival returns this year for a week-long programme celebrating music in film. The festival, now in its seventh year, is an integral part of Ballina Arts Centre’s film programme and each year takes a theme. This year the theme is ‘In Concert!’ and the programme will feature a number of classic concert movies. From the celluloid Valhalla of The Song Remains the Same to Jonathan Demme’s innovative Stop Making Sense, Sound+Vision: In Concert! Will have something for everyone and will truly celebrate music in film.
As with previous years the programme of film screening will be augmented by a live performance. This year, we welcome Dublin-based The Group with their live recreation of the greatest concert film of them all – The Last Waltz, a fitting way to round off a week of classic performances.
Read more ...Westport Music Festival is coming back to the streets
Fri, Jul 13, 2012
The Westport Music Festival is back for its seventh year to brighten up the summer with a weekend full of family entertainment on Friday, July 27, and Saturday, July 28. Main performances over the weekend will be from The Saw Doctors on the Friday night and The Beatlez on Saturday evening. The venue for the festival remains the same with the massive state-of-the-art stage taking up residence in the Carrowbeg River once again, a aplendid feature for the bands and public alike. Over the last six years the Westport Music Festival has become one of the most popular and well attended festivals in the west of Ireland and guarantees to have something to suit all age groups.
Read more ...New folk art exhibition to open in the National Museum of Ireland
Fri, Jul 13, 2012
A new exhibition of folk art opened at the end of June in the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar. The exhibition is composed of the country life paintings of Seán Ó Séadhacháin. These paintings were acquired by the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life in 2011 because they give a special insight into many of the farm and country life practices that are on exhibition in the Museum of Country Life. Seán Ó Séadhacháin grew up in west Limerick and spent a while working as a farm labourer in the West Kerry Gaeltacht in order to perfect his Irish. He emigrated to the USA in 1927 just before the Great Depression of 1929, where he worked for most of his life as a pharmacist.
Read more ...Moffat School of Irish Dance presents Children of Lir at Ballina Arts Centre tonight
Fri, Jul 13, 2012
As part of this year’s Ballina Salmon Festival, Ballina Arts Centre will present The Children of Lir, by the Sheila Moffat School of Irish Dancing on tonight, Friday, July 13. The Ballina-based school will tell the classic story of how four young children were transformed into swans, destined to spend 900 years on the lakes of Ireland, by a curse from their stepmother, through the traditional form of Irish dance.
Read more ...Parke Arts and Drama Group supporting Mayo Autism Action
Fri, Jul 06, 2012
The Parke Arts and Drama Group is once again supporting a local charity this year and the group has donated €500 to the very worthy Mayo Autism Action whose goal is to support children and their families who are affected by autism. The flagship project is the Áthas School in Kiltimagh which caters for children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. On hand to accept the cheque on behalf of Mayo Autism Action was Pat Kearns who thanked all those involved with Parke Arts and Drama, and thanked them for their generous donation which will go towards helping with the running of the school. The Parke Arts and Drama Group has donated more than €3,500 over the last three years to worthwhile charities such as Enable Ireland, Western Alzheimers, Hospice Uganda, Tsunami Appeal, and other local charities.
Read more ...Bressie comes to Castlebar this August
Fri, Jul 06, 2012
The Royal Theatre has announced Bressie is to play on Sunday, August 26. Already a well respected and talented musician from his time fronting The Blizzards, Bressie’s debut solo album Colourblind Stereo, released last summer, reached number one in the iTunes Album chart. From the LP he has released three singles including the airplay number one smash ‘Can’t Stay Young Forever’ and the top three hit ‘Good Intentions’.
Bressie has been highly acclaimed and lauded as The Voice of Ireland coach, a role that he has expertly filled with charisma and professionalism. The show has reached viewership figures of 700,000, eclipsing The Late Late Show and Saturday Night Show. It has firmly planted him in the heart of the Irish public as a true gentleman of the Irish music industry. Tickets go on sale today Friday July 6 from Ticketmaster outlets online and nationwide and from the Royal Theatre Box Office on 0818 300 000 or 094 90 23111. Tickets are priced at €20 (including booking fee).
Read more ...Sound+Vision: Ballina’s annual film festival returns
Fri, Jul 06, 2012
Sound+Vision Ballina Arts Centre’s annual film festival returns this year for a week-long programme celebrating music in film. The festival, now in its seventh year, is an integral part of Ballina Arts Centre’s film programme and each year takes a theme. This year the theme is ‘In Concert!’ and the programme will feature a number of classic concert movies. From the celluloid Valhalla of The Song Remains the Same to Jonathan Demme’s innovative Stop Making Sense, Sound+Vision: In Concert! Will have something for everyone and will truly celebrate music in film.
Read more ...Beezneez are coming back to Castlebar
Fri, Jul 06, 2012
Leitrim’s ever-popular Beezneez theatre company returns to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar with a lovely old Irish comedy, Johnnie’s Britches on Thursday, August 2 at 8pm. Written by former Athlone schoolteacher PG O'Dea, Johnnie’s Britches was a runaway nationwide hit when first produced in the 1940s, although the title was originally abbreviated to Johnnie because it was feared the inclusion of the word ‘britches’ would challenge people’s sensibilities. Now Beezneez theatre company brings its distinctive production values to this gentle comedy from another time. Anxious to be rid of their accident-prone servant girl, Ned and Bridget are willing to allow her to be married to almost anybody, including Johnnie (britches notwithstanding). However an unexpected letter from America throws all plans into confusion and it is left to Johnnie himself to untangle the web of conundrums that ensue. This laughter-filled comedy is directed by John McDwyer and Johnnie’s Britches is another guaranteed good night out from Beezneez.
Read more ...Iorras infused with International talent during July
Fri, Jul 06, 2012
A variety of artists will descend on Erris during the July for the 17th International Folks Arts festival, Féile Iorras. There is a diverse range of events to suit every taste and age group, incorporating every inch of the Barony of Erris. This year’s array of music, artists, and performers is in the final stage of completion and includes Tumbling Bones – American folk and old-time from the USA, Beoga who give a distinctly Northern flavour to Irish trad, international children’s films, Za Ucha with the finest Balkan music, Northumberland Celtic Ranters from England, and Iorras’s own David Munnelly Band. There will also be a 25 minute documentary by Blacksod native Fergus Sweeney, Keepers of the Light, poetry reading, local musicians performing a trad seisiún in Tra Buí, not forgetting children’s international cinema and Branar Theatre with a puppet show, Clann Lir,. The visual arts will be well represented by Diarmuid O Riordan’s exhibition of photographs which will be held at Áras Inis Gluaire and will open on Friday, July 13.
Read more ...Ballina Arts Centre to host famous Tibetan chanteuse
Fri, Jul 06, 2012
During Ballina Salmon Festival week, Ballina Arts Centre is delighted to present a rare opportunity to witness the Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo in concert.
Read more ...Tommy Tiernan’s World Tour of Mayo
Fri, Jul 06, 2012
Buffalo Country with the wide open skies, Tommy is delighted to be back in the county of Mayo. It is Tiernan country too, with relatives all over, from Cong to Kilmaine and to Louisburgh, the roots go deep here. Tommy comes from a long line of Mayo teachers, farmers, and priests. One of his forebears set up the first school in the county and for that Tommy would like to apologise. He has always felt especially at home here and considers it a homecoming of the ancestral sort.
Read more ...Mara Sola Lopéz exhibition opens next Friday
Fri, Jul 06, 2012
Borderline is the title of an exhibition of recent paintings by Galway-based artist Mara Sola Lopéz opening at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar next Friday, July 6 at 7.30pm. Borderline is an exhibition that explores the perceptions and emotions connected to experiences of alienation and displacement. Geocultural border-crossings, memories and influences from the tradition of magical realism have inspired the scenarios in Mara’s recent works, in which creatures are relocated into dreamscapes imbued with a sense of loss and an awareness of new unexpected frontiers and pastures. Mara has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Ireland and UK and is represented by KT Contemporary Gallery in Dublin and Mermaid and Monster Gallery in Cardiff, Wales. Her work is in the collections of the VAI and the OPW along with a number of selected private collections. This is Mara’s first major solo show.
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