Kilkenny Arts Festival brings Beethoven to life
New director Eugene Downes has put classical music back at the heart of the festival, and in fine style
Clouds in a church and other sound moves at Kilkenny Arts Festival
In the visual arts strand, there is evidence of joined-up thinking in the inclusion of abstract painter Marilyn Lerner, sonic glass work by Róisín de Buitléar and Karen Donnellan, and Max Streicher’s celestial cloud installation
Grey skies and showers no match for Kilkenny festival
The rain proved no deterrent to festival goers keen to soak up Shakespeare
Kilkenny Arts Festival aims to stretch legs as well as minds
The Marble City is bracing itself for mayhem and merriment, not to mention an estimated 45,000 visitors
Billy Collins: ‘When I start a poem, I assume the indifference of readers’
The former US poet laureate believes in bringing poetry to the widest possible audience. Some critics have found his poetry to be lacking in complexity, but he’ll take that over wilful obscurity any day
The Gloaming: continuing adventures of a trad fusion supergroup
The five virtuosos of The Gloaming can afford to be choosy about how, and where, they play their transcendental blend of trad, jazz, rock and classical music
Mull over Beethoven: the complete composer?
Musicians scheduled to perform his works here discuss what marks him out
Kate Tempest: the poetry after the storm
Tempest was a misfit teen until she found hip hop and a love for words. As an artist, she’s the real deal
Blood, Sweat and Sir Henry’s
Sir Henry’s is a club of legend, having brought house music to Ireland and put it on the international clubbing map. Raymond Scannell’s show Deep examines the rise and fall of this musical movement, and here he remembers the Cork nightclub and wonders where the next counter culture is going to rise from
Artists and audience asked to mix it up a little for overhauled Kilkenny festival
The Gloaming one of many artists in residence in Marble City
Kilkenny Arts Festival: A journey from Beethoven to The Gloaming
New festival director Eugene Downes gives a sneak preview of this year’s offerings
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