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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 Alan Kelly gang and Eddie Reader at the Linenhall

Bishop Browne invited the Sisters of Jesus and Mary to open a national school in Salthill, and on May 1 1952 Scoil Íde opened in what used to be a small hotel called Dalysfort House, with 43 pupils and three teachers. The numbers grew rapidly, so it was decided to knock the old hotel and build a new school. This was officially opened by the minister for education, Dr Patrick Hillery, in 1962.

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.

In the Deep Blue Sea

The inimitable Des Keogh delivers a one-man delight of comedy theatre in Confessions of an Irish Publican at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday June 8 and Tuesday June 9 at 8pm.

The WhistleBlast Quartet – Ken Edge (saxophones and clarinet), Mary Curran (French horn), Sile Daly (oboe and cor Anglais) and Andrew Synnott (piano), as recently seen on RTE’s Nationwide programme, is continuing its series of three-day projects with a visit to Knockrooskey National School, Westport. At the end of the schools workshop/performances the Quartet will perform a short family recital for all the community on Friday May 8 at 6pm in the new Westport Lodge Hotel, Aughagower. The hotel will offer special reductions for meals at this event for those who wish to extend their evening out. The concert is free to the public and will include Faure’s ‘Sicilienne’, the theme from The Simpsons, and music by Tchaikovsky, Lucia Berio, and Stravinsky.

The WhistleBlast Quartet — Ken Edge, Mary Curran, Síle Daly, and Andrew Synnott — will perform a free public recital in the Ramada Hotel, Ballina, at 6pm tonight (Friday September 25). Children from Rehins National School who had a three day project with the quartet will perform a short piece of their own.

This weekend is Féile na Tuaithe weekend, the two-day celebration of all that’s good about country life and traditions. Families from every corner of the country will converge on the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Turlough, Castlebar. Free entry, children’s activities, storytelling, music, face painting, demonstrations and workshops make this the best fun and best value festival around. Concerns about access and traffic management have been laid to rest by the museum.