Date: 08/06/2012 - 17/06/2012
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS- MUSIC
CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN – FEEL
Start: June 8, 2012 9:00 pm
End: June 8, 2012 10:30 pm
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €20
Carlow Arts Festival is pleased to welcome to the stage, on our Opening Night, the incomparable and brilliant Camille O’Sullivan. Camille O’Sullivan enjoys a formidable international reputation for her dramatic interpretations of the songs of Brel, Cave, Waits, Bowie and more.
CARLOW CHORAL SOCIETY
Start: June 9, 2012 8:00 pm
End: June 9, 2012 10:00 pm
Venue: Cathedral of the Assumption
Address: College Street,, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €18/€15 Children under 16 FREE
Carlow Choral Society have been performing major choral works for over forty-fivey years . The choir perform several times a year, both in Carlow town and County and in Dublin`s National Concert Hall. Since December 1993 the Society has been under the direction of Blanaid Murphy. Blanaid studied music in Selwyn college Cambridge.
SUNSHINE FOLK CLUB
Start: June 9, 2012 11:00 pm
End: June 9, 2012 11:00 pm
Venue: Carlow Town Rowing Club
Address: The Quay, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: FREE
Once a month a group of musician friends (and strangers) come together in the back room of the Boat Club bar for an informal session that lasts late into the night. Everyone is encouraged to get up and have a go, to get used to using a mike or having an audience.
NIALL TONER: Guitar Workshop
Start: June 10, 2012 11:30 am
End: June 10, 2012 11:30 am
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €10
Widely regarded as Ireland’s leading expert on bluegrass and American coutry music, Niall Toner shares his knowledge through his performances with The Niall Toner Band and on his show Roots Freeway on RTE Radio 1 which fund the gamut from Bluegrass and Old Timey to Blues and Cajun.
LITTLE MUSIC MAKERS WORKSHOP 4-6yrs – Mary Shiel
Start: June 10, 2012 12:00 pm
End: June 10, 2012 1:00 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €5
“All children are born musical and should be given every opportunity to explore and develop his or her music skills…” So began the philosophy of Marie Sheil who started the Little Music Makers School in 2004. This very special workshop will have your little ones developing their music skills in a fun and friendly environment.
LITTLE MUSIC MAKERS WORKSHOP 7-9yrs – Mary Sheil
Start: June 10, 2012 1:15 pm
End: June 10, 2012 2:15 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €5
“All children are born musical and should be given every opportunity to explore and develop his or her music skills…” So began the philosophy of Marie Sheil who started the Little Music Makers School in 2004. This very special workshop will have your little ones developing their music skills in a fun and friendly environment.
AN EVENING WITH VIRTOUSO CLASSICAL GUITARIST PAT COLDRICK
Start: June 13, 2012 7:00 pm
End: June 13, 2012 7:00 pm
Venue: Mimosa Wine & Tapas Bar
Address: College Street, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €10
Pat Coldrick has been playing and studying classical guitar since he was 12 years old. Initially self taught, Pat went onto study music at the College of Music in Dublin and then under world-renowned Spanish guitarists David Russell and Gabriel Estarellas. A guitarist with a classical background.
THE NIALL TONER BAND
Start: June 13, 2012 8:30 pm
End: June 13, 2012 10:30 pm
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €15
When Niall Toner isn’t presenting his Radio Programme, Roots Freeway, he is writing his own songs. His songs have been recorded by Bill Wyman, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Albert Lee and The Special Consensus to name but a few. Niall also writes extensively on the subject, and his articles have been published by Hot Press.
ORFEO
Start: June 14, 2012
End: June 14, 2012
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €20/€15
Following their sell-out success with The Magic Flute this winter, Opera Theatre Company return to the GB Shaw Theatre with Claudio Monteverdi’s Baroque masterpiece Orfeo. Although over 400 years old, the exquisite music and dramatic power of this earliest operatic gem remains undiminished. With a powerful cast including Oliver Mercer, Daire Halpin and Sadhbh.
The RUBBERBANDITS feat Lil Miss Rent Allowance
Start: June 14, 2012 10:45 pm
End: June 14, 2012 10:45 pm
Venue: The Tower
Address: 32 Tullow St, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €15/€13.50
With their debut album Serious About Menall over the Irish charts this Christmas and new single ‘Shift Girls’ clocking up the views, Mr. Chrome and Blindboy Boatclub with Dj Willie O’Deajay (He’s not their father, he’s their mother’s boyfriend) are down visiting Carlow’s lovely Garden Trail and taking in all the sights.
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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS- FAMILY STREET
LITTLE MUSIC MAKERS WORKSHOP 4-6yrs – Mary Shiel
“All children are born musical and should be given every opportunity to explore and develop his or her music skills…” So began the philosophy of Marie Sheil who started the Little Music Makers School in 2004. This very special workshop will have your little ones developing their music skills in a fun and friendly environment
Start: June 10, 2012 12:00 pm
End: June 10, 2012 1:00 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €5
LITTLE MUSIC MAKERS WORKSHOP 7-9yrs – Mary Sheil
“All children are born musical and should be given every opportunity to explore and develop his or her music skills…” So began the philosophy of Marie Sheil who started the Little Music Makers School in 2004. This very special workshop will have your little ones developing their music skills in a fun and friendly environment.
Start: June 10, 2012 1:15 pm
End: June 10, 2012 2:15 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €5
THEATRE LOVETT presents HOW DO ACTORS PLAY?
A family workshop for children (aged 7+) and adults of all ages Louis Lovett is Ireland’s most experienced and critically acclaimed performer for children. He has worked both on stage and screen (he is Killinaskully’s resident German cheese seller – Dieter Langer!) Louis Lovett and Muireann Ahern Lovett (Joint Artistic Directors of Theatre Lovett).
Start: June 12, 2012 6:00 pm
End: June 12, 2012 7:30 pm
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €5pp/€15 per family of 4
ART WORKSHOP 3-6yrs – Annette Fox
The essence of an Art Festival is the Visual strand and encouraging children to get involved in appreciation of the visual arts is at the heart of our festival this year. The Jackson Pollacks, Frida Kahlos or Pablo Picassos of the future are encouraged to let their creative juices flow with Art Teacher Annette Fox.
Start: June 16, 2012 11:00 am
End: June 16, 2012 1:00 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €7
DRUMMING WORKSHOP 8-13yrs – Brian Fleming
Ka bobo BOOM! Following last year’s success, Brian Fleming joins us again with a special drumming workshop for children from age 8 to 13. There are only 20 places per workshop, so book early to avoid disappointment. In this hands on workshop children will get to play drums from around the world.
Start: June 16, 2012 11:00 am
End: June 16, 2012 12:00 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €7
DRUMMING WORKSHOP 8-13yrs – Brian Fleming
Ka bobo BOOM! Following last year’s success, Brian Fleming joins us again with a special drumming workshop for children from age 8 to 13. There are only 20 places per workshop, so book early to avoid disappointment. In this hands on workshop children will get to play drums from around the world.
Start: June 16, 2012 12:30 pm
End: June 16, 2012 1:30 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €7
ART WORKSHOP 7-9yrs – Annette Fox
The essence of an Art Festival is the Visual strand and encouraging children to get involved in appreciation of the visual arts is at the heart of our festival this year. The Jackson Pollacks, Frida Kahlos or Pablo Picassos of the future are encouraged to let their creative juices flow with Art Teacher Annette Fox.
Start: June 16, 2012 2:00 pm
End: June 16, 2012 4:00 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €7
ZUMBATOMIC WORKSHOP 4-8yrs – Lisa Quinlan
Zumbatomic is a dance-fitness program designed exclusively for kids from ages 4-12. Children will learn fun dance steps and child friendly routines while listening to child friendly songs. ZumbAtomic® considers the whole child, developing a healthy lifestyle and therefore, includes learning the following; leadership, respect, team work, pride, confidence, responsibility, coordination, balance, discipline, memory, creativity.
Start: June 16, 2012 2:00 pm
End: June 16, 2012 2:45 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €5
ZUMBATOMIC 9-13yrs – Lisa Quinlan
Zumbatomic is a dance-fitness program designed exclusively for kids from ages 4-12. Children will learn fun dance steps and child friendly routines while listening to child friendly songs. ZumbAtomic® considers the whole child, developing a healthy lifestyle and therefore, includes learning the following; leadership, respect, team work, pride, confidence, responsibility, coordination, balance, discipline, memory, creativity
Start: June 16, 2012 3:00 pm
End: June 16, 2012 4:00 pm
Venue: Seven Oaks Hotel
Phone: 059 9131308
Address: Athy Rd, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €7
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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS- THEATRE
CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN – FEEL
Carlow Arts Festival is pleased to welcome to the stage, on our Opening Night, the incomparable and brilliant Camille O’Sullivan. Camille O’Sullivan enjoys a formidable international reputation for her dramatic interpretations of the songs of Brel, Cave, Waits, Bowie and more.
Start: June 8, 2012 9:00 pm
End: June 8, 2012 10:30 pm
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €20
CARLOW UNIVERSITY THEATRE PITTSBURGH PRESENT
‘He Ain’t Done Right By Nell’
Carlow University Theatre Pittsburgh present He Ain’t Done Right By Nell By Wilbur Braun This is an old-fashioned melodrama presented in the style and fashion of the acting companies that traveled the American West in the mid to late 1800s. Our heroine Nell must give up her intended to marry the manipulative villain Hilton Hays
Start: June 11, 2012 1:00 pm
End: June 11, 2012 1:00 pm
Venue: Fairgreen Shopping Centre
Address: Barrack Street, Carlow town, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: FREE
CARLOW UNIVERSITY THEATRE PITTSBURGH PRESENT
‘He Ain’t Done Right By Nell’
Carlow University Theatre Pittsburgh present He Ain’t Done Right By Nell By Wilbur Braun.This is an old-fashioned melodrama presented in the style and fashion of the acting companies that traveled the American West in the mid to late 1800s. Our heroine Nell must give up her intended to marry the manipulative villain Hilton Hays
Start: June 12, 2012 1:00 pm
End: June 12, 2012 1:00 pm
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: FREE
THEATRE LOVETT presents HOW DO ACTORS PLAY?
A family workshop for children (aged 7+) and adults of all ages Louis Lovett is Ireland’s most experienced and critically acclaimed performer for children. He has worked both on stage and screen (he is Killinaskully’s resident German cheese seller – Dieter Langer!) Louis Lovett and Muireann Ahern Lovett (Joint Artistic Directors of Theatre Lovett)
Start: June 12, 2012 6:00 pm
End: June 12, 2012 7:30 pm
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €5pp/€15 per family of 4
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
After triumphing over audiences in Listowel Writers Week in 2011, UK theatre company Hotbuckle – troubadours to the bone – return to these shores for the Dickens bicentenary. With just five actors of astonishing versatility playing the full array of roles, this troupe explode onto the stage with this innovative and exhilarating adaptation of one [...]
Start: June 12, 2012 8:00 pm
End: June 12, 2012 10:00 pm
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €12.50
CARLOW UNIVERSITY THEATRE PITTSBURGH PRESENT
‘He Ain’t Done Right By Nell’
Carlow University Theatre Pittsburgh present He Ain’t Done Right By Nell by Wilbur Braun This is an old-fashioned melodrama presented in the style and fashion of the acting companies that traveled the American West in the mid to late 1800s. Our heroine Nell must give up her intended to marry the manipulative villain Hilton.
Start: June 13, 2012 1:00 pm
End: June 13, 2012 1:00 pm
Venue: Carlow Shopping Centre
Address: Kennedy Avenue, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: FREE
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
After triumphing over audiences in Listowel Writers Week in 2011, UK theatre company Hotbuckle – troubadours to the bone – return to these shores for the Dickens bicentenary. With just five actors of astonishing versatility playing the full array of roles, this troupe explode onto the stage with this innovative and exhilarating adaptation of one.
Start: June 13, 2012 8:00 pm
End: June 13, 2012 10:00 pm
Venue: Borris House
Address: Borris, Co Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €12.50
ORFEO
Following their sell-out success with The Magic Flute this winter, Opera Theatre Company return to the GB Shaw Theatre with Claudio Monteverdi’s Baroque masterpiece Orfeo. Although over 400 years old, the exquisite music and dramatic power of this earliest operatic gem remains undiminished. With a powerful cast
Start: June 14, 2012
End: June 14, 2012
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €20/€15
CARLOW LITTLE THEATRE presents The Wandering Scholar from Paradise
In a sneak preview of Carlow Little Theatre Society’s forthcoming week of medieval comedy masterworks, the company will give a single preview performance of Hans Sachs’ one-act farce. The Wandering Scholar from Paradise introduces us to a Nuremberg woman, Anna, who spends her life complaining that her deceased first husband is still her true.
Start: June 16, 2012 1:00 pm
End: June 16, 2012 1:50 pm
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre
Phone: 059 917 2400
Address: Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €7.50
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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS- LITERATURE
The Borris House Hay Festival – Kerry Hardie
Kerry Hardie presents her forthcoming collection The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree (Gallery Press), accompanied by David Power on uileann pipes. This event will be immediately followed by a reception to launch of Kerry’s book, to which all are welcome.
VENUE : The Ballroom at Borris House
Start: June 9, 2012 1:30 pm
End: June 9, 2012 1:30 pm
Venue: Borris House
Address: Borris, Co Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €9
The Borris House Hay Festival – Colm Toíbín
Colm Toíbín takes his latest book New Ways to Kill Your Mother as the basis of a presentation on famous writers’ relationships with their families.
VENUE: Ballroom at Borris House
Start: June 9, 2012 3:00 pm
End: June 9, 2012 3:00 pm
Venue: Borris House
Address: Borris, Co Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €9
The Borris House Hay Festival – Ben Anderson
Journalist and filmmaker Ben Anderson (Holidays in the Axis of Evil) meets Fintan O’Toole to discuss his gripping account of the Afghanistan war in Helmand province, No Worse Enemy, and his latest assignments.
VENUE: Chapel at Borris House
Start: June 9, 2012 3:45 pm
End: June 9, 2012 3:45 pm
Venue: Borris House
Phone: 0599771884
Address: Borris, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €9
The Borris House Hay Festival – Craig Brown
Craig Brown talks about the 101 meetings that make up his new book One by One, and presents his own parodic One-Stop Literary Festival.
VENUE: Ballroom at Borris House
Start: June 9, 2012 4:30 pm
End: June 9, 2012 4:30 pm
Venue: Borris House
Phone: 0599771884
Address: Borris, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €9
The Borris House Hay Festival – John Lloyd & Sean Hardie
Comedy writer producer John Lloyd (Spitting Image, Blackadder, QI) will be deep in conversation with Sean Hardie (Bremner, Bird & Fortune, Not the Nine O’Clock News)
VENUE: Ballroom At Borris House
Start: June 9, 2012 6:00 pm
End: June 9, 2012 6:00 pm
Venue: Borris House
Phone: 0599771884
Address: Borris, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €9
The Borris House Hay Festival – Leviathan
A public conversation with leading commentators which informs, entertains and engages, through satire, comedy and music.
VENUE: Chapel at Borris House
Start: June 9, 2012 7:00 pm
End: June 9, 2012 7:00 pm
Venue: Borris House
Phone: 0599771884
Address: Borris, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €9
The Borris House Hay Festival – Anne Enright
Booker-prize winner Anne Enright (The Gathering) will talk about her career as a novelist, essayist and short story writer drawing from her most recent work The Forgotten Waltz.
VENUE: Ballroom at Borris House
Start: June 10, 2012 1:15 pm
End: June 10, 2012 1:15 pm
Venue: Borris House
Phone: 0599771884
Address: Borris, Carlow, Ireland
Cost: €9
