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Monday
1 - Saturday 13 @ 8.30pm
This production celebrates and explores Blasket Island living while also challenging our own notions of identity as contemporary islanders. Premiered in 2003, Oileán marked the 50th anniversary of the departure of the Blasket Islanders to the mainland. The Great Blasket Island, located off the coast of West Kerry still retains an almost mystical significance for many, both from Ireland and abroad. The way of life of the islanders and their spirit of survival is framed in this production, which captures the essence of this island community, their traditions and customs, their wealth of song and story, their love of life and their strong kinship with one another. |
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Saturday
6 & Sunday 7 Devised and directed by Colette Maguire Jensen, head of Dance at Kerry School of Music and Performing Arts since 1993. More than 400 dancers take to the stage over two days in a riot of colour and a spectacular variety of dance pieces.
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Saturday
13 @ 8.00pm
Togetherness are one of the most exciting young jazz groups to emerge
from the Dublin jazz scene in recent times. They have had a prosperous
year in existence performing at festivals and recording an album.
Led by pianist / composer Justin Carroll the quartet forms a captivating
sound of original music and features some of the brightest musicians
on the Irish jazz scene. Saxophonist Michael Buckley has worked
internationally with many outstanding musicians. Bassist Simon Jermyn
and drummer Seán Carpio have worked together with groups to watch
out for such as Red Rocket and Trot A Mouse. "Perhaps the most impressive bands were the Saga Quartet from Vilnius, Justin Carroll's Togetherness" - Ray Comiskey, Irish Times (12 Points Festival Review) "This very promising new band can swing with straight-ahead ease when it wants to." - Kevin Stevens, Journal Of Music In Ireland (Bray Jazz Festival Review) Tickets: €15/12 |
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Monday
15 - Saturday 27@ 8.30pm Clann Lir, an eternal tale of evil and salvation, is a story as old as Ireland itself. According to the legend, the four children of King Lir, Fionnuala, Conn, Aodh and Fiachra were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother, Aoife. This production portrays the journey of the Four Children of Lir who are doomed to spend nine hundred years in the guise of swans, but are allowed to keep their beautiful singing voices. |
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Thursday
25 @ 8.00pm
Northern Lights is a blending of Norse and Irish: sagas, stories, soundscapes, cultural flavours and perspectives, through a meeting of their music and songs. Like the historic relationship between these cultures the traditional music of both sometimes clashes, creating a musical tension and a creative dissonance. Also, in keeping with that relationship, there is noticeable common ground borne of cultural exchange. Northern Lights delves into the shared themes of these traditions to create a unique and intriguing fusion. A mix of Irish and Scandinavian music. Everything from Medieval Norse and irish songs to traditional dance music Tickets: €12/10 |
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Monday
29 - Saturday 11 @ 8.30pm In times past almost every farmyard activity had a tune to it. San Am Fadó weaves the work and the workers, the worksongs and the dances into a marvellous fast-moving, thrilling piece of theatrical entertainment. This production dramatises a whole year's cycle of living and working the land, emphasizing the labour and rituals that celebrated the seasons. Through lively singing, music, dancing and mime, San am Fadó moves from the open air of the bog fields and harvest festivals, to the warmth of the hearth-lit kitchen and celebrates the joys and sorrows of a typical family in Ireland in times past. |
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Friday
3 @ 8.00pm
It's Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Two thirtysomethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up. He's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld and she's a high powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's out of his league and he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Ever. Ever. Which is why they do. Midsummer [a play with songs] is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self loathing misery. Featuring Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon as the ill-advised love match, Midsummer is a quirky, charming love story by one of Scotland's leading playwrights, David Greig and top Edinburgh singer/songwriter, Gordon McIntyre.
Greig's lo-fi production is delivered with such knowing wit,
panache and theatrical verve as to be irresistible and unmissable.
The Herald
Tickets through the Siamsa Tíre Box Office: €15/12 |
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Thursday
9 @ 12noon Farmer Jason, the alter ego "identical twin brother" of alt country legend Jason Ringenberg (Jason and the Scorchers), will be making his first appearance in County Kerry at Teach Siamsa Finuge. Designed for the whole family Farmer Jason and his young audience sing along to songs and discuss farm life and ecology. All the children are encouraged and invited to participate in the experience along with the parents. No matter what age you are you are sure to enjoy Farmer Jason's lyrical and musical adventure into nature.
The production is followed by a 40 minute workshop
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Monday
13 - Saturday 25 @ 8.30pm Premiered in 2006, Tearmann brings the audience on a moving journey to the poorhouse and the Great Irish Famine. Many of those who perished during the famine carried in their folk memor an unknown library of music, song and dance. For some, the last refuge was the Poorhouse. As the drama unfolds, a pair of dance shoes becomes the embodiment of not only all that was lost, but everything that was saved, everything that is still cherished in Irish folk traditions. The dance shoes come to symbolize this wealth of culture - these are magical shoes, they have a life of their own… |
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Monday
27 - Friday 31 @ 8.30pm This production celebrates and explores Blasket Island living while also challenging our own notions of identity as contemporary islanders. Premiered in 2003, Oileán marked the 50th anniversary of the departure of the Blasket Islanders to the mainland. The Great Blasket Island, located off the coast of West Kerry still retains an almost mystical significance for many, both from Ireland and abroad. The way of life of the islanders and their spirit of survival is framed in this production, which captures the essence of this island community, their traditions and customs, their wealth of song and story, their love of life and their strong kinship with one another. |
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Friday
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Friday
31July - Monday 3 August
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Saturday
1 - Saturday 8 @ 8.30pm This production celebrates and explores Blasket Island living while also challenging our own notions of identity as contemporary islanders. Premiered in 2003, Oileán marked the 50th anniversary of the departure of the Blasket Islanders to the mainland. The Great Blasket Island, located off the coast of West Kerry still retains an almost mystical significance for many, both from Ireland and abroad. The way of life of the islanders and their spirit of survival is framed in this production, which captures the essence of this island community, their traditions and customs, their wealth of song and story, their love of life and their strong kinship with one another. |
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Monday
10 - Saturday 22 @ 8.30pm Clann Lir, an eternal tale of evil and salvation, is a story as old as Ireland itself. According to the legend, the four children of King Lir, Fionnuala, Conn, Aodh and Fiachra were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother, Aoife. This production portrays the journey of the Four Children of Lir who are doomed to spend nine hundred years in the guise of swans, but are allowed to keep their beautiful singing voices. |
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Monday
24 - Monday 31 @ 8.30pm In times past almost every farmyard activity had a tune to it. San Am Fadó weaves the work and the workers, the worksongs and the dances into a marvellous fast-moving, thrilling piece of theatrical entertainment. This production dramatises a whole year's cycle of living and working the land, emphasizing the labour and rituals that celebrated the seasons. Through lively singing, music, dancing and mime, San am Fadó moves from the open air of the bog fields and harvest festivals, to the warmth of the hearth-lit kitchen and celebrates the joys and sorrows of a typical family in Ireland in times past. |
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