Kevin Bridges getting ready to bring the funny
Fri, Nov 23, 2012
Kevin Bridges returns to the road this winter with an eagerly awaited performance at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar on Friday, December 7.
Read more ...Paul Durcan brings his poetry to the stage
Fri, Nov 23, 2012
Paul Durcan, one of Ireland’s foremost and most prolific poets, returns to his Mayo roots for one of his legendary readings at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday, December 5 at 8pm.
Read more ...Julie Feeney is coming back to the Linenhall
Fri, Nov 23, 2012
Multi-award-winning singer-composer Julie Feeney returns to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar for a very special concert on Monday, December 10 at 8pm.
Read more ...André Rieu Home for Christmas at Mayo Movie World
Fri, Nov 23, 2012
André Rieu will make a special live appearance by satellite from Maastricht, introducing his festive Christmas concert, and cinema audiences will have the opportunity to participate in a special hosted live Q & A prior to the concert screening. This performance will take place tomorrow, Saturday November 24 at 5pm in Mayo Movie World, Castlebar.
The Home for Christmas programme is filmed primarily at Rieu’s house, a romantic medieval castle in his hometown of Maastricht in The Netherlands. Together with his Johann Strauss Orchestra, soloists and choir, André performs 26 holiday classics in his snowy, beautifully decorated garden and Saint Pierter Church across the street from his home. Relaxing by his fireplace, André tells a Christmas tale and shares with the audience how he celebrates Christmas at home.
Read more ...Emma Bourke glass exhibition coming up in Castlebar
Fri, Nov 23, 2012
Opening on Friday, November 30 at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar is Flora lucid, a beautiful exhibition of glass sculptures by Mayo artist Emma Bourke. Emma is a visual artist working mainly in the medium of glass. Her artistic practice is inspired by the natural environment in the west of Ireland, and the wild flowers and plants that populate the countryside. Captivated by these enchanting plants, Emma creates collections of these wild flowers out of glass, eternally capturing their beauty.
Read more ...The Shop Around the Corner next up for Westport Film Club
Fri, Nov 23, 2012
Westport Film Club will host a screening of the 1940 James Stewart comedy The Shop Around the Corner at its next screening on Wednesday, December 5 at 8.45pm in Westport Cineplex.
Read more ...Lady Windermere’s Fan comes to Castlebar
Fri, Nov 23, 2012
Belfast’s brilliant Bruiser theatre company presents Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday, November 29 at 8pm.
Read more ...An evening with The Redneck Manifesto
Fri, Nov 16, 2012
Finbar Hoban Presents an evening with The Redneck Manifesto live at The Velvet Lounge in the TF Royal Theatre this November 23 for what promises to be a great night of music from one of Ireland's most notable instrumental bands. Tickets will cost €10 and will be available on the night.
Read more ...Lady Windermere’s Fan comes to Castlebar
Fri, Nov 16, 2012
Belfast’s brilliant Bruiser theatre company presents Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday, November 29 at 8pm.
Read more ...Classical Heaven at the Linenhall
Fri, Nov 16, 2012
The RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet performs together with violinist par excellence Nobuko Imai at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday, November 26 at 8pm.
Read more ...Sixmilebridge Folk Club Festival Band for Mayo
Fri, Nov 16, 2012
Sixmilebridge Folk Club Festival band from Co Clare will join forces with the Banjaxed Bluegrass Band to tour the Castlebar area Mayo from the today, Friday November 16 to November 18. Up to 30 musicians, singers and friends from the club will converge on the villages of Belcarra, Balla and Westport to promote the Shannonside Winter Music Weekend which takes place in Sixmilebridge and Bunratty, Clare from January 17 through 20, 2013.
Read more ...Opera live from The Met, coming to the Linenhall soon
Fri, Nov 16, 2012
World class opera is coming to town, direct from New York to Castlebar. Verdi’s Aida opens a glittering season of live streamed opera coming direct from the stage of the world famous Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar: live, as it happens, and in high definition. The Met’s lavish production of Verdi’s ancient Egyptian drama, to be screened on Saturday December 15 at 5.55pm, heralds a season of wonderful Saturday night operas that continues into April 2013 with a programme comprising Les Troyens (Berlioz), Maria Stuarda (Donizetti), Rigoletto (Verdi), Parsifal (Wagner), Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai), and Giulio Cesare (Handel).
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