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east west East Clare West Clare CEOL SA CHLANN – MUSIC IN THE FAMILY Oidhreacht an Chláir, Spanish Point Road, TOUR OF ST. FLANNAN’S CATHEDRAL THE MODERN BLACKSMITH Miltown Malbay 8pm – 10.30pm Royal Parade, Killaloe 6pm – 9pm Kilkee Forge, Kilferagh, Kilkee Guests Josephine Marsh, Mick Kinsella and A guided tour of St. Flannan’s Cathedral, Killaloe including tour of tower 5pm – 9pm son Jack will be joined by Seán Garvey and and bells. Come along to our forge and studios to see Jane Flynn. They will present a selection of modern-day blacksmiths at work! On the tunes and songs and will weave a narrative on MOUNTSHANNON COMMUNITY CONCERT night, we will be forging using traditional the importance of family in handing down the Catholic Church, Mountshannon 8pm – 10.pm equipment and techniques that have been music through the generations and passing it An evening of music and poetry, with local artists, children and special used for centuries and have been passed on. guests from further away. down through the generations. INIS CATHAIGH SEISIÚN ‘DUOLOGUES#1’ – MATTHEW NOONE & CATHERINE STORY TELLING Teach Ceoil, Grace St., Kilrush 9pm – 11pm SIKORA Oidhreacht an Chláir, Spanish Point An hour-long stage show of music, song and Old School House, Killanena 8pm – 9pm Road, Miltown Malbay 6pm – 7.15pm dance, followed by a session with audience A unique performance by East Clare resident and sarode player, Roisin Meaney will tell stories for 3-6 year participation. Matthew Noone and renowned improviser and composer, saxophonist olds from 6-6.30pm and for 6-10 year olds Catherine Sikora. Pre-booking essential – contact matthewmasala@ from 6.45-7.15pm. Roisin is an author who gmail.com has run story-telling lessons country wide. ‘MIDNIGHT RUN’ IN CONCERT OÍCHE CEOIL CATCHING Gleeson’s Bar, Sixmilebridge 8pm GAA Community Room, Frure, Lissycasey 6.30pm – 7.30pm Sixmilebridge Folk Club are proud to host a short talk by Bluegrass IS CULTURE Promoter, John Nyhan, on the cultural connections between Irish A session of traditional music for all ages. traditional and Bluegrass music, followed by American bluegrass band ‘Midnight Run’ in concert. Pre-booking essential at 086 8464509. A VISUAL ART EXHIBITION BY RITA LINNEY FRI TULLA COMHALTAS CULTURE CONCERT & SESSION Cultúrlann Sweeney, Kilkee 6pm – 8pm Windswept Inn, Tulla 9.30pm – 12pm 21 Brendan Bugler and friends will lead a night of trad entertainment at LUKA BLOOM IN CONCERT the Windswept Inn. Cultúrlann Sweeney, Kilkee 8pm SEPT ‘IMAGES IN OUR LANDSCAPE’ A wonderful opportunity to see Luka Bloom, Health and Wellness Centre, Carrigoran House, folk singer and song writer perform. Since Newmarket on Fergus 8pm – 9pm making Co. Clare his home, the landscape A presentation of prize-winning audio visual sequences depicting has inspired many of his songs. He has been some of Clare’s leading heritage sites, landscape and flora. described as “the very embodiment of the folk singer”. Culture Night Clare is brought to you by the Department of Culture, Heritage and Gaeltacht in partnership with Clare County Arts Office. CULTURENIGHT.IE In association with Clare Arts Office CLARE 2018 ALL EVENTS ARE FREE ennis ennis north Ennis OPENING OF NOCTURNE: AN THE BRAD PITT LIGHT ORCHESTRA North Clare ‘REBIRTHING THE WHITETHORN’ EXHIBITION OF NEW WORK BY glór, Causeway Link 7.30pm – 9pm Burren College of Art, Newtown, ADAM POMEROY ‘HARVESTING THE WORLD’ The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra’s music is a SCHOOL OF ART OPEN EVENING Ballyvaughan 8pm – 9.30pm glór, Causeway Link 6.30pm – 7.15pm blend of warm vocal harmonies, and classy A video documentary which highlights the glór, Causeway Link 4.15pm – 5.45pm Ennistymon School of Art, Main St., glór presents an exhibition of new work by instrumentation that is hard to categorise yet wonderful aspects of the whitethorn. This A sharing of some harvest songs, dances and rituals from around the Ennistymon 4pm – 5.30pm Adam Pomeroy. Adam is one of Ireland’s easy to love. The five-piece have toured Ireland enlightening video brings us back to the heart of world. Clare Immigrant Support Centre and the Inisowiacy Folk Group Students will showcase their work, including leading contemporary figurative artists and extensively with their theatrical show as well the magic of near forgotten traditions. bring an intercultural element to Culture Night. painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture and other his work has been shown widely in Ireland and as with music of Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison disciplines and will be on hand to discuss their the UK. Paintings from his biblical series can and David Bowie. ‘BURREN SUB CULTURE’ ART EXHIBITION BY EASI ARTISTS work. be seen in Galway and Ennis cathedrals. Doolin Cave, Doolin 8pm – 10pm EASI Studios, Tracklands, Tobartoascáin 5pm – 9.30pm ‘SOME ENCHANTED EVENING’ Exhibition and demonstration of techniques, featuring work by Ann ENNISTYMON ART TRAIL Photo exhibition by Joan O’Hanrahan. VISIT THE COUNTY MUSEUM St. Columba’s Church, Bindon St. McBride, artist and ceramic designer, Cathal Butler, landscape artist Various venues in Ennistymon 4pm – 10pm County Museum, Arthur’s Row 8.15pm – 9.30pm ‘5 FILMS & A PLAY’ and Dyan Smith, sculptor and community project artist. The Art Trail comes alive for Culture Night! Stroll 6.30pm – 8.30pm A concert of favourite songs from stage and from one event to another, an art market on the Doolin Cave, Doolin 8pm – 10pm A chance to meet and talk to the staff at The screen with Helen Houlihan (soprano), Owen GUIDED TOUR OF OPW 13TH CENTURY ENNIS FRIARY square, music in the gallery, film screening, art Screening of 5 films set in North Clare. And a Museum and an opportunity to see and handle Gilhooly (tenor), Peter Sebestyen (cello) and workshops and family-friendly events too. play ‘When Punk Rock came to North Clare’. OPW Ennis Friary, Abbey St. 6pm - 7pm some items from The Museum storeroom. Michael Hennessy (piano). An island site, a royal house, a school, a Franciscan church, a burial BOOK LAUNCH & ARTIST’S TALK ground, a courthouse, a Church of Ireland parish church…778 years of ENNIS GOSPEL CHOIR STREET AN INTIMATE EVENING OF MUSIC ‘THE SILVER BRANCH’ history at Ennis Friary, now a heritage site. Come and see the wonderful The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, SING WITH SUSAN O’NEILL The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, medieval sculptures by local 15th century masons in local limestone. Ennistymon 5.30pm – 7pm Merchants Square, linking Scéal Eile Books, 16 Lwr Market St. Ennistymon 8pm – 10pm Liscannor-born artist Marie Connole Parnell St. and The Market 8pm – 9pm Five years in the making, this film ‘CHARACTER AND CULTURE’ EXHIBITION launches her new art book which 7pm – 7.45pm Susan O’Neill is a writer and charts the rural life of The Burren, Cafe on the Green, Lifford 6pm - 8pm explores her research into local Ennis Gospel Choir sing some multi-instrumentalist. Her solo as this fabled landscape is Art Exhibition by David O’Rourke dealing with themes of Irish identity folklore. Accompanied by a talk of their favourites in an outdoor act combines a collection of threatened. and culture, from Dysart O’Dea to vulture funds, the economy and state setting. From Gospel to chart guitars, harmonicas, trumpets by the artist and screening of the of the health (or lack of it) service, with works in a variety of media. hits, the choir hopes to lift your and a loop pedal station that are folklore and stories from her ‘Tea MULKERE, MUSIC AND Time Tales’ workshop. POETS ANCIENT AND MODERN spirits and brighten your evening. fused with powerhouse vocals. Her MUSINGS performance can only be given it’s Kilshanny House, Kilshanny glór, Causeway Link 6.15pm – 7.15pm ‘A NIGHT OF READINGS’ true credit when witnessed live. MUSIC IN THE GALLERY 8pm – 11pm Clare has produced many celebrated poets over the years. The Clare Foust Gallery, Main St., Ennistymon Rowan Tree Café Bar, Harmony Row An evening of music, song and storytelling with Poetry Collective members will each introduce a Clare poet of the past, 7pm – 9pm SEISIÚN 6pm – 10pm talk about their work, read some of their poems and read some of their renowned seanachaí, Dessie Mulkere and singer Inis Creative Writers Group members will read Cois na hAbhna, Galway Road Music in the Gallery featuring local singers/ own work. Martin Forde on the accordion. a selection of their writings, including fantasy 8pm – 9.30pm songwriters and special guests. Starting with THE BOOK THAT MADE ME A READER fiction, fiction, poetry, memoire and factual A night of music, song and dance in the Teach Music for Children, a special set of songs for ‘RICHES OF CLARE’ CONCERT writings, with invited guests from other groups Ceoil - this evening promises to be a lively one kids. De Valera Library, Harmony Row 6.30pm – 7.30pm and an open reading session. with lots of talented musicians and singers. Teach Ceoil, Corofin 9pm – 10.30pm What makes someone a reader? Some special guests will discuss the INIS DIOMÁIN COMHALTAS OPEN Join us for a night of traditional music with books that transformed them. Join us and our guests as they explore CULTURE NIGHT ÉIRE @ THE RB ‘DIFFERENT FOLKS’ AIR SEISIÚN special emphasis on the music of North Clare the books, stories and experiences that changed them as readers. with Mike Butler, Aidan Mc Mahon, Michael The Record Break Arts/Vinyl Café, Lucas’ Bar, 74 Parnell St. 8pm – 11pm The Square, Ennistymon 7pm – 8pm Landers, James Duffy and Elaine Hogan. ‘3D TETRIS’ EXHIBITION Lwr Market St. 7pm – 10pm Folk music grows naturally all over the world. Music, dance, song and storytelling by members Come along for a night of folk music from of Inis Diomáin CCE.