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DAVID BOWIE did it. Dudley Moore did it, Sir John Gielgud did it. They have all been narrators for the magical Peter and The Wolf, Prokofiev's story designed to introduce children to classical music and the instruments of the orchestra.

The WhistleBlast Quartet – Ken Edge (saxophone and clarinet), Mary Curran (French horn), Síle Daly (oboe and cor Anglais), and Andrew Synnott (piano) – start off their 2012 series of outreach/recital programmes with a three-day concert/workshop project with the children of Culleens National School, Ballina, on January 11, 12, and 13.

The WhistleBlast Quartet – Ken Edge (Saxophones and Clarinet), Mary Curran (French Horn), Síle Daly (Oboe and Cor Anglais) and Andrew Synnott (Piano) – will be visiting St Colmcille’s Quay National School, Westport for a three-day Outreach/Recital Programme. The Quartet will perform Peter and the Wolf and an interactive, entertaining concert for up to 170 school children.

The WhistleBlast Quartet returns to Mayo after the summer break with a three-day concert/workshop programme in Snugboro National School. During the Quartet’s visit it will perform Peter and the Wolf and an interactive children’s concert to some 200 children.

Roll up, roll up! RoolaBoola, the Linenhall Arts Centre’s annual Children’s Arts Festival is just around the corner, bringing all the excitement of a top children’s festival to your doorstep. Shows, workshops, free events and much, much more are on offer from October 19 to 26 as RoolaBoola celebrates its 12th birthday in dazzling style, culminating in three days of mayhem, fun and entertainment with something for everyone over the October Bank Holiday weekend.

Two of the best known newlyweds in literature arrived in town to launch this year’s RoolaBoola children’s arts festival at the Linenhall Arts Centre last Friday evening. No strangers to launching things, the Owl and the Pussycat docked their beautiful pea-green boat in Castlebar after a monumental journey back from the land where the Bong-tree grows, stopping off in Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, USA, Italy, Spain and Achill — we know, we’ve seen the postcards they’ve been sending to the Linenhall over the past weeks.

There will be a puppet-making workshop in Áras Inis Gluaire on Monday December 28 from 1pm to 3pm by Pignut Productions, followed by a performance of Monsters and Things at 4pm in Áras Inis Gluaire in Belmullet.