Ros na Rún seeks fresh acting talent

Fri, Apr 03, 2009

Ros na Rún is on the lookout for actors with cúpla focail to join the cast for the upcoming 14th season of the hit show! So if you’re a Gaeilgeoir with big ambitions to star in one of Ireland’s most popular drama series, Ros na Rún want to hear from you! With dramatic and exciting storylines in the pipeline, the producers are looking for an actor to fill the role of a womanising character who causes uproar when he works his charm on the female population of Ros na Rún! Ros na Rún are also searching for actors to play a larger than life elderly couple and a variety of smaller roles is also on offer. Auditions will be held on the Ros na Rún set in Spiddal, Co Galway, and fluent Irish is essential for all roles. If you are interested in auditioning, simply e-mail your CV with a recent photo to [email protected] before Friday, April 17, 2009. Ros na Rún will then contact you to arrange an audition.

A Mythical Army: Sheila Gorman exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre

Fri, Apr 03, 2009

Throughout the month of April, Ballina Arts Centre will be hosting A Mythical Army, an exhibition by Dublin-based artist Sheila Gorman. The exhibition takes as its theme military uniforms and features a suite of drawing-based works exploring the theme.

Castlebar goes back in time, with the Here and Now tour

Fri, Apr 03, 2009

Original eighties acts Kim Wilde, ABC, Heaven 17, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Altered Images, and Toyah come to Castlebar on Sunday April 12 to transport you into the eighties with their hit tunes ‘Kids in America’ and ‘I Want To Be Free’. The line-up for the Here and Now tour April 2009 is one not to miss

Kim Wilde burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the new wave classic ‘Kids in America’, which hit number two in the UK singles chart. She topped the charts with her version of The Supremes' hit ‘You Keep Me Hangin’ On’. She has toured with Michael Jackson (1988) and David Bowie (1990).

Refurbished Custom House Studio opens tomorrow

Fri, Apr 03, 2009

The refurbished Custom House Studios at Westport Quay will be formally opened by Dr Martin Mansergh TD. Minister of State with responsibility for Arts, and the OPW, on Saturday April 4 at 2pm. This event is open to the public and all interested are invited to attend.

Paul Brady to showcase his talent in Castlebar

Fri, Mar 27, 2009

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, is one of Ireland's most enduringly popular artists. Born and raised in Strabane, he was into a wide variety of music from an early age. A fifties child, his first sounds were the swing, jazz, and show tunes of his parents generation, then fifties rock 'n roll, sixties pop and Motown, blues, R’n’B, and country and western. Through all this ran the potent flavour of Irish traditional music and song.

Ireland’s newest sensation the Priests live in Castlebar

Fri, Mar 27, 2009

Music Machine and The Royal Theatre and Event Centre Castlebar present The Priests in concert on Sunday March 29. The Priests, Father Eugene O’Hagan, Father Martin O’Hagan, and Father David Delargy, are currently taking the world by storm. Their debut album entered the Irish charts at number one and the UK charts at number five, making the Priests’ debut album the 'fastest-selling UK debut for a classical act' as certified by Guinness World Records.

Ready Steady Cook/Fun

Fri, Mar 27, 2009

A show of a different nature comes to the Royal Theatre Castlebar on Wednesday April 8. Castlebar man Oliver Kelleher, celebrity from RTE’s HEAT cooking programme, and Paul Claffey from Mid West Radio will entertain us in a charity cook off with mentor head chefs from Days Harlequin Hotel and the TF Royal Hotel to assist. Host and compere on the night will be funny man Conal Gallen and he will get things heating up in the room.

The proceeds from the night will go to two charities, The Niall Mellon Trust and Croí.

Castlebar goes back in time, with the Here and Now Tour

Fri, Mar 27, 2009

Original eighties acts Kim Wilde, ABC, Heaven 17, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Altered Images, and Toyah come to Castlebar on Sunday April 12 to transport you into the eighties with their hit tunes ‘Kids in America’ and ‘I Want To Be Free’. The line-up for the Here and Now Tour April 2009 is one not to miss

James Kilbane to appear worldwide

Fri, Mar 27, 2009

James Kilbane, his music, Achill and Mayo will be featured in the coming weeks on the satellite television network EWTN which is the world’s leading Catholic and Christian broadcaster with an estimated television audience worldwide of over 700 million viewers.

Last chance to see Time to Fly exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre

Fri, Mar 27, 2009

This week will be the last opportunity to see Time to Fly, an exhibition of artworks from service-users of Ballina Training Centre, at Ballina Arts Centre. Ballina Training Centre participated in an ‘arts-needs’ research project initiated by the arts centre in 2005. As a result the training centre sourced Westport-based artist Claire Griffin to work with the group. The workshops with Claire took place over a two-year period until June 2008.

Erris players to mark Synge centenary with Playboy performance

Fri, Mar 27, 2009

The Playboy of the Western World, by John Millington Synge, is arguably the Irish playwright’s greatest masterpiece. In order to mark the centenary of JM Synge’s death – he died, aged 37, on March 24 1909 – the Erris Players, under the direction of Bridie Quinn, will be staging a powerful performance of this noted drama in Belmullet and in Bangor Erris. Interestingly, this is not the group’s first performance of the play – they first staged it 17 years ago and that very successful production is still recalled by local actors and audiences alike.

Top musical theatre at the Linenhall

Fri, Mar 27, 2009

Described as “a work of genius”, Bruiser Theatre Company brings its dazzling production of Oh What A Lovely War! to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday April 6 at 8pm.

On foot of last year’s unforgettable production of Candide, Bruiser is back with Joan Littlewood’s brilliant satirical musical that is one of the great landmarks of post-war British theatre. It is 1914 and Europe is on the brink of war. Armed with sketches, songs, and stories, a cast of Pierrot clowns mix their sombre buffoonery with the bawdy, tough, humour of the lads on the front line. Along the way the story is marked by a fantastic collection of songs from the Great War. Oh What A Lovely War! is a groundbreaking, moving, funny, lyrical evocation of the tragedy and pathos of World War I. A night of top musical theatre on the cards.

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