‘It feels like starting over again’

Wed, Feb 16, 2022

JULIE FEENEY was not just busy during the lockdowns, she was positively a Renaissance woman, adding actor, playwright, and theatrical music director to her already impressive CV of award winning vocalist and composer.

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'Getting to Know...' Katelyn Molloy, country singer

Tue, Feb 15, 2022

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being able to do something I love and enjoy everyday like singing.

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Aine Ní Dhubhghaill, Ros na Rún

Tue, Feb 08, 2022

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Good company, good food, good music, and no stress.

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May the Force and the music be with you

Wed, Feb 02, 2022

WHEN STEPHEN Bell ascends the podium in Leisureland to conduct the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in an evening of music by John Williams, he will do so, not only as a lifelong fan of film scores, but as someone who has worked with John Williams himself.

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Rachel Goode, country and Irish singer

Tue, Feb 01, 2022

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being happy in oneself and singing my way through life.

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The extraordinary adventures of Danny O’Brien

Wed, Jan 26, 2022

FROM MILKING goats to encounters with a boozy deity in Guatemala, Danny O’Brien is conceivably the only person in the world whose life under lockdown and the pandemic restrictions can be described as action-packed.

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'Getting to Know...' musician Ríona Ó Dúinnín

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Snuggled up watching a movie with my boys.

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‘Bajazet is a playlist of wonderful arias’

Wed, Jan 19, 2022

WHEN GIANLUCA Margheri steps onto the stage of the Town Hall Theatre to perform the title role in Vivaldi’s opera Bajazet, it will be a double debut for the acclaimed opera singer.

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'Getting to Know...' Christopher Bowen, tenor

Thu, Jan 13, 2022

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Afternoon sun on a hillside after a morning's walk. Lunch and possibly a nap if it is warm.

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‘When a teacher creates enthusiasm, that rubs off on the performer’

Wed, Jan 12, 2022

SOMETIMES A chance event can dictate the entire course of a life, one random instance can establish a pathway and a pattern to follow.

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'Getting to Know...' musician John Finucane

Thu, Jan 06, 2022

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Peace and quiet in the countryside.

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‘Stanford was masterful in the way he wrote for orchestra’

Wed, Jan 05, 2022

CHARLES VILLIERS Stanford is one of the greatest composers to have ever come out of Ireland. Yet in Ireland, both the man, and his music, continue to go somewhat under the radar - certainly in comparison to his predecessor, John Field.

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'Getting to Know...' Seosaimhín Uí Shuilleabháin

Thu, Dec 30, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Spending time with my family, especially my niece and nephew.

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'Getting to Know...' Santa Claus

Thu, Dec 23, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Presents delivered, and the sight of Lapland as it speads over Finland and Sweden - job done, I'm almost home.

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'Getting to Know...' Mandy Maher

Thu, Dec 16, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Family, love, and health.

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‘I’m sitting on two years worth of jokes’

Wed, Dec 15, 2021

WITH 2022 on the horizon, Reginald D Hunter is not necessarily looking towards the future with hope, more with a sense of caution bred from hard lessons learned.

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‘There is a gentle and subtle power to her voice’

Wed, Dec 08, 2021

SHE WAS called the “Queen of Irish Song” by Séamus Ennis; she was recorded by Alan Lomax and is admired by Christy Moore; and her versions of Gaelic song have been covered by Clannad and Iarla Ó Lionáird.

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‘Songs are valuable things’

Thu, Nov 25, 2021

NO TWO people’s experience of the pandemic and the lockdowns have been the same. For many, it has been tough, a time of deep uncertainty, something they have had to endure.

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'Getting to Know'...Donncha Foley

Thu, Nov 25, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Happiness to me is often in how you decide to perceive things.

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‘We need to realise what we are and what we can be’

Wed, Nov 24, 2021

IT IS a time of change at the Galway Arts Centre. As 2021 draws to a close, plans are being made for 2022 which will see renovated buildings, a new online presence, challenging exhibitions, and even new approaches in how we experience events.

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