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August 2019
Matriarchs – A Two Act Play
Saturday, August 31, 8:00 pm, €20 “The Pirate Queen meets The Virgin Queen” Written and directed by Grace O’Malley’s biographer, Anne Chambers, Matriarchs stars Regina McCormack as Grace O’Malley, Bronach Joyce as Queen Elizabeth I and Conor Clarke as Tibbott…
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The Westport Festival of Chamber Music 2019
September 13-15th Classical music lovers, mark your diaries for the seventh Westport Festival of Chamber Music, which takes place in three wonderful venues around the town – Westport House, Westport Town Hall Theatre, and Holy Trinity Church. The opening Friday-evening…
Find out more »Opening Recital, Westport Chamber Music Festival
Friday, September 13, 8:00 pm, €50 “Every year it is a wonderful challenge for us to vary the programme for Westport’s by now well-established Festival of Chamber Music. Last year for instance, we introduced an exclusively string quartet concert for…
Find out more »Next Generation Artist Concert, Westport Festival of Chamber Music
Saturday, Sept 14th, 11:30am, €10, Westport Town Hall Theatre Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata D 821 Kodály: Adagio for Viola and Piano Bowen: Rhapsody for Viola and Piano Fiachra de hOra (viola), Aidan Chan (piano) (Fiachra de hOra pictures above.) The Westport…
Find out more »Main Concert, Westport Festival of Chamber Music
Saturday, Sept 14th, 8pm, €25, Westport Town Hall Paul Schoenfield: Clarinet Trio Julian Bliss (clarinet), Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Finghin Collins (piano) Franck: Sonata in A for Viola and Piano (trans. from Violin Sonata) Eivind Ringstad (viola), Finghin Collins (piano) Mozart:…
Find out more »Westport Festival of Chamber Music, Late Night Concert
Saturday, September 14th, 10.30 pm, €10, Westport Town Hall Arrangements for Voice and Marimba Kelley Lonergan (soprano) , Alex Petcu (marimba) Golijov: Mariel for Cello and Marimba Isang Enders (cello), Alex Petcu (marimba) (Isang Enders pictures above.) The Westport Festival…
Find out more »Bach: Goldberg Variations, Westport Festival of Chamber Music
Sunday, Sept 15th, 11:30am, Westport House Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (arr. for string trio) Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Eivind Ringstad (viola), Adrian Brendel (cello) (Adrian Brendel pictured above.) The Westport Festival of Chamber Music will take place from Friday 13th…
Find out more »Handel, Beethoven, Deirdre Gribbin, Ravel: Westport Festival of Chamber Music
Sunday, Sept 15th, 2:30pm, Holy Trinity Church Handel: Keyboard Suite in F, HWV 427, Chaconne in G, HWV 435 Daria van den Bercken (piano) Deirdre Gribbin: How to Make the Water Sound Mairéad Hickey (violin), Miriam Roycroft (cello), Daria van…
Find out more »Ray Lynam & The Hillbillies – ‘The Last Date’
Castlecourt Hotel, Sept 15th, 7pm, €25 Ray Lynam and the original Hillbillies, thought to be by many as Ireland’s greatest country band reunite and take to the stage on Sunday 15th September 2019 in The Castlecourt Hotel Westport, County Mayo.…
Find out more »Westport Seafood Festival, The Towers
Friday, Sept 20th - Sunday, Sept 22nd Love fresh, local seafood? Paired with the the perfect wine? Wish you knew how to cook it? Need a bit of craic for the weekend? This just may be your festival and The Towers…
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