Boyzone to play the Royal Theatre on St Patrick’s Day
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
Boyzone will play The Royal Theatre on Thursday, March 17 2011. Tickets priced from €44.50 including booking fee went on sale yesterday morning. This new tour will see Boyzone hit the west coast of Ireland where they played some of their first live shows. It also gives the boys the chance to celebrate Paddy’s Day in Louis Walsh’s old stomping ground in Castlebar.
Read more ...Culture night a huge success
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
On September 24 a total of 20 towns, cities, and counties across Ireland took part in Culture Night. In Mayo the evening was a countywide event giving people in all parts of the county the opportunity to go along to their local venue and check the wealth of activity that goes on there. Not surprisingly, people did just that. In the past five years Culture Night has become a national phenomenon and in 2009 Mayo was delighted to be part of the event. In a unique take on events the occasion in Mayo became a countywide event, a first for culture night. Feedback from venues and audience was extremely positive.
Read more ...Tom Loves A Lord - Moore’s melodies revisited
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
THOMAS MOORE is a man torn. He is celebrated in Britain and on the continent for his songs and lyrics about his native Ireland. Yet his country is a colony of the fast growing British empire. As he reaches his autumn years he ponders on his life’s work. Has he been a patriot or is he just an entertainer for his colonial overlords?
Read more ...Nie przegap tego spotkania
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
W ten weekend odbedzie sie Miedzynarorowy wieczor z udzialem polskiego zespolu Kameesh w trzech miastach w Mayo (Ballina, Castlebar, Westport) oraz w Tuam.
Zespol Kameesh to grupa doswiadczonych i profesjonalnych muzykow, ktorym towarzyszy charyzmatyczny wokalista Kamil Drelichowski.
Read more ...Stage comeback for Cynthia in On a Wing and a Prayer
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
One of the principal roles in the musical On a Wing and a Prayer will herald a welcome return to the stage by Leitrim-born Cynthia Clampett who will play Dame Judy Coyne. Mrs Coyne and her husband, Judge Liam Coyne, were instrumental in reviving interest in Knock Shrine, and she founded the handmaids and stewards, provided facilities for the sick, and had a broad vision for the development of the Shrine. She was also responsible for commissioning the statues at the apparition gable in Knock. She died in 2002.
Read more ...Win a copy of His and Hers on DVD
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
From kitchens, living rooms, and hallways across the Irish midlands, His and Hers delightfully combines observation and charm to tell a 90-year-old love story through the voices of 70 women. This intimate gender and cultural snapshot explores a woman’s relationships with the men in her life—father, boyfriend, husband, son. Following sequentially from little girl to old woman, each character portrait is woven with the others into one perfectly crafted cinematic quilt.
Read more ...John Hoban launches his memoirs
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
This is the story of Mayo singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and teacher John Hoban. From the Plain of the Yew Tree takes the reader on a journey through music and time across the five continents. The author invites you to join him on his rambles through Ireland, London, Australia, America, and many other places, meeting, listening to, and playing with every kind of musician.
Read more ...Niall Teague and the Fast Company launch new album
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
Matt Molloy’s in Westport will be the venue for the launch of Niall Teague and the Fast Company’s new album this Sunday October 17. Teague is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist originally from Belfast, but now residing in Galway and since he moved to the west he has built quite a reputation in the music circles in the city.
The group feature some of Galway’s finest emerging talent and will play original tunes along with some folk songs. The band features a wide eclectic selection of instruments from guitar to double bass, through flute, fiddle, and banjo.
Read more ...Award winning show for RoolaBoola Children’s Arts Festival
Fri, Oct 15, 2010
Audiences are in for a rare treat with the Puppet State Company’s adaptation of The Man Who Planted Trees which comes to Castlebar’s Linenhall Arts Centre on Friday October 22 and Saturday October 23 for the RoolaBoola Children’s Arts Festival. An engaging blend of comedy, puppetry, and inspiring storytelling, this beautiful show has become a regular feature in the fringe programme of UK and Scottish festivals, selling out and winning awards for the last two years.
Read more ...Get ready for the CARI chocolate challenge in association with Finbar Hoban presents
Fri, Oct 08, 2010
Finbar Hoban Presents, in association with Karen Conway, announces the fourth annual CARI music night fundraiser with music from Kildare group Miracle Bell and Oddsocks Revival plus guests. The event will take place in Bar Ritz, Main Street Castlebar tomorrow evening, October 9.
Read more ...Dear Frankie gets an extra night at the Linenhall
Fri, Oct 08, 2010
An extra night has been added due to demand for Five Lamps Theatre Company’s hilarious and poignant Dear Frankie at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday, October 18 at 8pm. The original Tuesday October 19 performance is now sold out.
Read more ...Whose Line Is It Anyway? at the Royal
Fri, Oct 08, 2010
Five brave performers will arrive with no script and not the faintest idea of what will happen. Willed on by a supportive crowd, through improvisation they create whole sketches and comic dramas that are amazingly inventive and sometimes take off into flights of surreal brilliance. The TV show of the same name, Whose Line Is it Anyway? Is a pale imitation when compared to this live show. The live show will take to the stage in the Royal Theatre on Saturday October 23 at 9pm.
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