Johnny McEvoy


Thursday 2nd April 2009 at 8.00pm

Johnny McEvoy has been writing and performing songs for over 40 years and he is just back from yet
another very successful mini tour in America. He took most of the last year of from performing live
concerts to concentrate on writing and recording a new album. He regards his latest album "Never Smelt
The Roses" which came out on the 6th of March this year to be his best work to date and very few could
argue when they hear it. The title track "Never Smelt the Roses" has been getting great reviews in the
United States and the Album itself shows us that Johnny is back at his very best not only
vocally but also in his song writing.

Tickets €20 (€18 conc.)
Bookings on (066) 947 8956 or techamergin@eircom.net

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Traditional/Folk Music

Mary McPartlan & Thom Moore


Friday 13th March 2009 at 8.00pm

Mary is one of Ireland's finest vocal performers & interprets with spirit, passion & an
intense love of the songs she sings. Thom, American/Irish singer, songwriter 'Train to Sligo', 'Carolina Rua' etc
& member of 70's group 'Pumpkinhead' & later 'Midnight Well'.

Singing workshop with Mary & Thom on Saturday 14th March from 11.00am - 1.00pm.
Workshop fee: €20. Contact the centre for further details.

Concert tickets €15 (€10 conc.)
Bookings on (066) 947 8956 or techamergin@eircom.net

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Richard Jordan Productions Ltd
Presents

 

The Truman Capote Talk Show
With Bob Kingdom as Truman Capote

 

Sunday 8th March 2009 at 8.00pm

 

Bitchy, Glitzy, Chic, Unique, Heartbreaking….

No one looked, or sounded, like Truman Capote. A five foot four terror, with a high-pitched, Southern drawl,
he wrote as he spoke, like a surgeon with a scalpel; made by words,  destroyed  by  words,  drugs  and  
alcohol.  Capote, recreated, lays bare both sides of this classic American tragedy.

Winner of the Fringe First Award The Truman Capote Talk Show has enjoyed sell-out seasons at the
Lyric Hammersmith London and Off-Broadway.

 

"Bob Kingdom's beautifully gauged and eloquent performance underlines the nature of Capote's dilemma".
Nicholas deJongh, Evening Standard, London

"By recreating the style, elegance and poetic tragedy of Truman Capote, Mr.Kingdom, in one of the crowning achievements of the acting profession, has created new poetry of his own"
Rex Reed, New York Observer

Tickets €15 (€10 conc.)
Bookings on (066) 947 8956 or techamergin@eircom.net

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Syrius Trio

Bobby Chen, Elizabeth Cooney,
and Jane Cords-O’Hara

(A Music Network concert)

Friday 6th March at 8.00pm

The Syrius Piano Trio is fast making an impression on the international stage after winning a
place on Music Network Ireland's Young Musicwide Scheme in 2006, following which the trio performed
an all Shostakovich programme on tour in Ireland and at the Weill Hall at Carnegie in New York.

The trio, comprising three young exciting talents formed two years ago. Bobby Chen, piano and
Elizabeth Cooney, violin, both studied in London at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of
Music respectively. Jane Cords-O'Hara, cello, studied at the Royal Northern College Manchester before
moving to New York where she is now based.

Tickets €15 (€12 conc.)
Bookings on (066) 947 8956 or techamergin@eircom.net

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Sunday 22nd February 2009, 8.00pm


Endgame was Beckett's favourite play in that it was the one he disliked least. It has never achieved
the same popularity as Waiting For Godot but it has as much poignancy, great speechs and poetic
intensity. The Godot Company forthcoming Production intend to bring out the humanity,humour
and the power of this extraordinary work.

Woolf is described as "a living icon of the theatrical avant-garde, an actor who throughout the 1960s
would appear in any play that broke new boundaries".

His film credits include Marat/Sade (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), Steptoe and Son (1972),
Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Gorky Park (1983), Superman III (1983).

A great night's theatre where comedy and tragedy are intermixed with great dramatic moments.

Only performance in Kerry

Tickets €15 (€10 conc.)
Bookings on (066) 947 8956 or techamergin@eircom.net

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'Sceilg Revisted'

Friday 30th January - Sunday 1st February

For more information please go to www.eigsenabrideoige.com

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Traditional Irish Ensemble

Slide

Sunday 25th January 2009 at 8.00pm



(A Music Network concert)

Slide features vocalists and multi instrumentalists Daire Bracken (fiddle/guitar),
Éamonn de Barra (piano/flute/bodhrán/whistle), Aogán Lynch (concertina/whistle),
Mick Broderick (bouzouki/mandolin) and Dave Curley (vocals) who will perform music from their CD, Overneath. 

Described by Donal Lunny as “a band of real conviction”, Slide was awarded a place
on Young Musicwide 2005 - Music Network’s professional development scheme awarded to Ireland’s
brightest young musicians.   

“Slide... the future of Irish Music”                                                            RTÉ Radio 1

“...a powerhouse quartet of traditional musicians with attitude ”      Irish Times


Tickets €18 (€15 conc.)
Bookings on (066) 947 8956 or techamergin@eircom.net

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Christmas Family Matinee


Centre Stage Theatre Company
presents

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

SUNDAY 14th December 2008 at 3.30pm



The magical appeal of this classic tale makes this production from the
North's première producer of Christmas plays, with traditional family
values, simple effects, memorable tunes and strong
performances, a must for all the family.

Tickets: Adults € 10 / Children € 8. Family ticket (2 Adults & 2 Children) €30.
Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Auction

WOVEN ART AUCTION

Saturday 13th December 2008 at 7.00pm

Quality hand woven tapestries from original art work by 13 Kerry artists.Tapestries are hand woven
in Lesotho by Sesotho Design.

Come and experience this unique event and bid for your favourite piece.

Presented by Waterville Friends of Lesotho.

Click here for further information.

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Fundraiser

CHRISTMAS FLORAL
DEMONSTRATION

 

by Ann Crowley, 'All About Flowers', Killorglin.

 

Wednesday 10th December 2008 at 8.00pm

 

Admission €10.

 

Proceeds in aid of The Leukaemia Ward, Mercy Hospital Cork.

All flower arrangements will be raffled on the night.

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Celebrated one-woman show

'Corsetless'


Written & performed by Catherine Eaton
from text by William Shakespeare

Sunday 30th November 2008 at 8.30pm

CORSETLESS is an innovative one-woman
“tour de force” which follows Liv, a brilliant and troubled woman fighting for her
freedom in a mental institution. After years of silent withdrawal, Olivia
chooses to communicate with the world using only the words of Shakespeare.

For this "crime," she is placed in isolation in a psychiatric hospital and is observed by a team of medical
specialists twenty-four hours a day, among them the Doctor she trusted as a child.
Stripped of her privacy and her freedom, she savagely defends her sanity against the those
holding her, and the battleground she chooses is the torn text from the plays and poems
of a genius whose exquisitely turned phrases have indelibly shaped our language.

The solo show played to a sold-out audience at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall this past September,
and features an entirely original score by award-winning concert pianist Elaine Kwon.


“Eaton’s show is a most rare vision indeed, full of raw passion,
longing, tragic humor and unfiltered humanity.” Buffalo News
www.stirproductions.net

Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Ensemble

'Scratch The Surface'

Wednesday 12th November 2008 at 8.30pm

Ensemble Scratch the Surface bring together musicians, composers, visual artists
and choreographers to offer a fresh and stimulating platform for the performance of new music,
dance  and film. The performance will feature compositions by a new generation of Irish composers who
focus on the cross over between video, music and choreography.  The performance features
music by Steve Reich , Donnacha Dennehy and Linda Buckley.

Ensemble Scratch the Surface have performed throughout the UK and Europe and are
rapidly emerging as one of the most exciting ensembles presenting new sounds, visions and art forms. 
www.scratchthesurface.org

Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Samhlaíocht Kerry Film Festival
presents

'Billy Elliot'

Tuesday 4th November 2008 at 10.30am

Director: Stephen Daldry

Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it!
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Tickets €5. Following 'Billy Elliot' there will be a Film Workshop with the Irish Film Institute.

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Charlie Chaplin's City Lights
with Live Piano Accompaniment
by John McKenna at 8.00pm

Charmingly simple story of The Little Tramp who meets a lovely blind girl selling flowers on the sidewalk
who mistakes him for a wealthy duke. When he learns that an operation may restore her sight, he
sets off to earn the money she needs to have the surgery. In a series of comedy adventures that only
Chaplin could pull off, he eventually succeeds, even though his efforts land him in jail. While he is
there, the girl has the operation and afterwards yearns to meet her benefactor. The tear-inducing closing
scene, in which she discovers that he is not a wealthy duke but only The Little Tramp,
is one of the highest moments in movies.
See www.kerryfilmfestival.com

Tickets €7. Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Theatre

'On Raglan Road'
in association with Croft Productions

Written by Tom O'Brien
& based on the life of Patrick Kavanagh

Sunday 26th October 2008 at 8.30pm

On Raglan Road, explores Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh’s obsession with his muse and
inspiration, Hilda Moriarty. The play also details Kavanagh’s rivalry with another Irish writer of
the time, Brendan Behan who himself died in 1964.

Patrick Kavanagh was born in the village of Inniskeen, Co Monaghan, in 1904 and is now
regarded as Ireland’s most important poet after WB Yeats. The son of a shoemaker and small
farmer, he moved to Dublin in his mid thirties where he lived in poverty for most of his life, surviving
on handouts, the occasional bit of journalism, but mostly being supported by his younger brother, Peter.
On Raglan Road is a poem about his love affair with Hilda Moriarty, which was doomed from the start.
Always a controversial figure, he was hated as much as loved in Dublin, and his long-running
feud with Brendan Behan is well-chronicled.

Written by Waterford playwright Tom O’Brien, the play is full of pathos and is mixed with poetry and song.
The play is directed by John Dunne who has taken the essence of Kavanagh and placed him slap bang on stage.

Tickets:  €15 (conc. €10).   Bookings on 066 9478956 

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Lunchtime Theatre

Call Back Theatre
presents

'Bonfire Night & Arsehammers'

Written by Claire Dowie
Performed by Cora Fenton
Directed by John Sheehy

Thursday 23rd October 2008 at 1.15pm

Claire Dowie is the inventor of Stand Up Theatre where the actor is talking directly to and interacting
with the audience. This 45 minute show, written by Claire Dowie, directed by John Sheehy and performed
by Cora Fenton, comprises a pair of deeply darkly comic gems: Bonfire Night, in which a daughter
takes her sweet revenge and Arsehammers, where a grandchild is sure that her grandfather's
strange disappearances reveal supernatural powers. The delivery is natural and conversational. It's very
funny: the subjects are serious but there is a wicked sense of humour underlying everything. 
Both Bonfire Night and Arsehammers have characters who are perfectly ordinary and yet completely extraordinary.

Story telling with a difference and funny too! Tickets:  €8. Bookings on 066 9478956.

Lunch also available before the show.

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Play

'Catalpa'

written and performed by
Donal O' Kelly

with live music by
Trevor Knight

Saturday 18th October 2008 at 8.30pm



Catalpa is a story in the great epic tradition of Moby Dick and Gone With The Wind - with a passing
glance at The Great Escape. From New Bedford, USA to Fremantle, Australia, across the high
seas on the whaling ship Catalpa. Based on the true story of the daring rescue of six Irish prisoners
in 1875, Catalpa has reached legendary status in Irish theatre.

Catalpa is about heroes and visionaries, political intrigue and personal loyalty, with hot romance and
battles at sea. An epic adventure story, lyrical, passionate and very funny.

Catalpa has played all over the world – Kennedy Centre Washington, Victoria Arts Centre Melbourne,
Tricycle London, Chicago, New York, Toronto, Paris, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Geneva .. always
to enthusiastic audiences and rave reviews.

      Scotsman Fringe First Award, Edinburgh
Best Event Award, Melbourne International Festival
Maximum four star rating, Washington Times

“A masterpiece ... searingly satirical, comic, tragic, profoundly sensitive”                          The Scotsman

Tickets:  €20 (conc. €15).   Bookings on 066 9478956 

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Dance

Legitimate Bodies Dance Company
presents

'Touching Distance'

Wednesday 15th October 2008 at 8.30pm




“Touching Distance is an exciting and completely new dance work, featuring three highly skilled
dancers, Cristina Goletti, Aine Stapleton and Federica Esposito. It deals with touch between
human beings, as well as the dynamics within relationships. Touching Distance portrays real
people on stage in a dance work able to touch a wide audience. …Touching  distance of our dreams
shared with the audience, of where we think we want to be. Allow this work to take you by surprise to
question why you might want to watch a dance performance. To laugh, to get to know each other, to
open up to your feelings, allow them to dance.”

Choreography: Nicholas Bryson
Dance: Aine Stapleton, Cristina Goletti, Federica Esposito
Music: Michael Fleming, Mo Benison

Tickets:  €15 (conc. €10).   Bookings on 066 9478956 

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Traditional Music & Song

Binneas Trad Concert

Saturday 11th October 2008 at 8.30pm

Seamus Creagh and Aidan Coffey in concert. Local guests include Ardú, Tim Dennehy, and Sean Garvey.

Tickets:  €15 (conc. €10).   Bookings on 066 9478956 

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Traditional Music & Song

Binneas

Iveragh in Music & Song - Uíbh Ráthach ag Ceol

Friday 10th October 2008 at 8.30pm



Concert with local singers and musicians performing the songs and tunes collected by the Binneas project to date.
Artists include Ardú, Sean Garvey, Tim Dennehy, Mc Cann sisters, Matt Joe O'Neill, and others.

Tickets:  €15 (conc. €10).   Bookings on 066 9478956 

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Kerry International Chamber Music Festival

Saturday 4th October 2008 at 8.30pm

Featuring the Engêgard Quartet, Arvid  Engêgard - violin, Atle Sponberg - violin,
Juliet Jopling - viola, Jan-Erik Gustafsson - cello.   Also performing Catherine Bullock - viola,
Nonna Knuuttila - violin, Adrian Brendel - cello, Stella Pendrous - harpsichord, Annóg Theatre Group
and Eoín Duignan on uilleann pipes performing music by Beethoven, Vivaldi & a new
composition titled 'Stories from the Old World' by guest composer, David Flynn.  

Tickets:  €20 (conc. €15).   Bookings on 066 9478956 or techamergin@eircom.net
see www.kicmf.ie

 

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National Poetry Day

Poetry Workshop

Thursday 2nd October 2008 at 10.00am - 1.00pm
with
Paddy Bushe

(Admission Free)

8.30pm
'The Noted Word: An Evening of Poetry & Music'

with poets
Gabriel Fitzmaurice & Paddy Bushe,
Wally Desmond (uilleann pipes) & Peter Sherborne (guitar)



Tickets €10 (conc. €8). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Theatre

ST. NICHOLAS by Conor McPherson

in association with
Richard Jordan Productions Ltd.

starring Peter Dineen

Wednesday 1st October 2008 at 8.30pm

St. Nicholas is the funny, chilling and supernatural solo tale of vampires and theatre critics.
A jaded theatre critic steps beyond the pale and falls for a beautiful young actress in one of the show's
he is reviewing. There follows a story of seduction, entrapment and blood which subsequently finds him
caught up in a coven of modern day vampires all living in south London.

Peter Dineen is one of the UK's leading Irish actors well known for his television appearances
in the hit comedy Father Ted. He is a seasoned McPherson actor appearing in The Weir both in
London and nationally. He has also worked with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain.
In the Druid Theatre he performed works by Martin McDonaugh and recently won critical acclaim
for his performance is Krapp’s Last Tape at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. His performance
as the jaded Dublin Critic in St. Nicholas received universal critical acclaim.

Born in Dublin in 1971, TONY Award nominee Conor McPherson is widely regarded as one of the
greatest playwrights of his generation "McPherson is already heir to the great Irish tradition of
absorbing tale-telling....he has a priceless narrative gift". (Michael Billington, The Guardian).
He is the Olivier and Tony award winning writer of The Weir, his other plays include Port
Authority, Shining City, Rum and Vodka, The Good Thief and Dublin Carol.

Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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A MUSIC NETWORK CONCERT

TRIOCCA

Ríona Ó Duinnín on flute, Nancy Johnson on viola
& Geraldine O'Doherty on harp with

leading Irish soprano Sylvia O'Brien


Sunday 28th September, 8.30pm

Triocca formed in 2003 and has since performed at various venues and events throughout Ireland.
In November 2003 they gave the première performance of an electronic work by Linda Buckley at
a recital in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. As a result of this performance, the late James Wilson
wrote a trio for them, which was premiered in 2006 at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Their
performances have been described as sensitive, colourful and balanced with beautiful
melodic playing and sensitive phrasing.

Sylvia O’Brien performed her operatic debut as the Governess in The Turn of the Screw with Opera Theatre
Company. Since then, her vocal and musical skills have earned her many prestigious
engagements both in Ireland and internationally.
She has performed with the English Touring Opera Company, Opera Ireland and
The National Symphony Orchestra, and has recorded the title role for
Wexford Opera Festival’s production of Martinu’s Mirandolina. As a soloist and member of the
National Chamber Choir she toured internationally, recorded and broadcasted on television and
radio. Highlights in 2008 to date include St. John's Passion with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, and
recitals with Seoirse Bodley and her works in the Hugh Lane Gallery.

Tickets €18 (conc. €15). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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A Night of Story & Music with

Seanachaí Batt Burns
&
Sean O'Dwyer on concertina


Wednesday 24th September 2008 at 8.30pm



As a youngster Batt Burns experienced the seanachaí (storyteller) tradition firsthand when
he lived with his grandfather in the Hills of County Kerry and heard him tell stories by the
fire during the harsh winter nights. Today Burns helps to preserve that Irish heritage with
haunting accounts of ghosts, great adventure stories, tales of heroes, farcical stories and witty jokes.

Traditional concertinist, Sean O’Dwyer, hails from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. 
He belongs to a renowned family of traditional musicians, son of the late concertinist
Ella Mae who came from Athea in West Limerick.
Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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The Five Lamps Company

presents

THE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE

Directed by Niamh Gleeson

Friday, 12th September 2008 at 8.30pm

"Welcome to Hell sweetheart".  Evelyn Delaney arrives up from the country in the summer of 1963
to begin her working life in a suburban Dublin telephone exchange. Dublin, she feels, is terribly
different to Trim.  Nora, Mags and Dympna have been working there for ages and seem very worldly. 
But it's only a year before she can save enough to go back to live in Trim to marry the man of her dreams. 
A shared obsession with the gorgeous JFK brings the four women closer and soon they discover,
hidden secrets won't stay hidden all summer.
Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Music & Dance

with

Members of The Kerry Orchestra

including traditional, classical, and jazz music.

Friday, 17th August 2008 at 8.30pm

Tickets €10. Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Jazz & Folk

Clare Horgan

in concert with singer/songwriter

Paul Buckley

Sunday 10th August at 8.30pm

Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Elizabeth Rose performs her New York show,

"If You Want Me, You Can Have Me Right Now!"

in Tech Amergin Arts Centre
Sunday 3rd August, 2008 at 8.30pm

"If You Want Me, You Can Have Me Right Now!" chronicles the life of a performing songwriter,
the obstacles (often hilarious) to getting one’s voice heard and the ultimate triumph of
the spirit.  With book, music and lyrics by Rose, it features18 original songs, covering
styles from opera to hip hop and everything in-between. 

A June 2008 reading of the show at The Cherry Lane Theatre (NY’s first Off-Broadway theatre),
in Greenwich Village elicited raves such as: “Carole King on steroids” and “Yo, 'betty'...you are one multitalented mf". 

A native New Yorker, Elizabeth’s most recent cd, “Sleep Naked” has received excellent reviews and
international airplay. Labeled “a wicked-smart contemporary singer/songwriter,” reviewers
note “Bonnie Raitt meets Cole Porter”.  “Sleep Naked” features a backing band of New York
session musicians who have played with Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra,
Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney to name a few.

Loosely based on Rose’s life, the show at Tech Amergin follows the life of a girl raised in a competitive
musical family in New York City. She escapes with her young husband to the Midwest where she
drops out of law school to join  a rock band, get arrested in a Vietnam demonstration, divorces, flees
to Woodstock, teaches hyper-active kids in a New York City high school and finally finds
her voice as she quits her last ‘straight’ job.

Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Percentage of proceeds will go towards Lesotho.
Bookings on 066 9478956.

Further information available on www.elizabethrosemusic.com

 

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EBLANA TRIO

ACCLAIMED IRISH PIANIST VERONICA McSWINEY
IN CONCERT WITH VIOLINIST AISLING O’DEA
AND CELLIST JULIA GRAHAM

Friday 1st August, 2008 at 8.30pm

The EBLANA ENSEMBLE was formed in 2002 when Veronica McSwiney, one of Ireland’s most successful pianists, returned to live in her native Dublin. Until then, her main career was that of soloist.  She performed worldwide  for many years both as solo-recitalist and guest artist with many famous Symphony  Orchestras, including  our own N.S.O, London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Boston Symphony to name but a few.  There is a wealth of wonderful Chamber Music which she was very keen to perform, and she set about contacting musicians both from Ireland and abroad with whom she was keen to perform. The Ensemble can consist of as many musicians as the programme or repertoire to be performed requires. In this particular instance it is a TRIO and this is her particular favourite group.

AISLING O’DEA is also Veronica’s daughter. Her violin studies commenced in the UK . She was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy in London. She was awarded many prizes during her student days, and in 1994 she was the winner of the String Section in RTE’s  “Young Musician of the Future”. After further studies in Berlin she became a much sought after violinist in Chamber groups in Germany, and eventually she accepted a position with the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra. However her real love was always Chamber Music and in 2007 she was appointed to the famous Scottish Chamber Orchestra and now resides in Edinburgh. Aisling has performed as soloist with our National Symphony Orchestra  and Orchestra’s in Germany on many occasions.

The cellist is JULIA GRAHAM.  Julia is a very talented cellist who was appointed straight from her studies in the R.A.M. in London to the position of asst-principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.  Aisling and Julia were friends and students together in London, and during their student days they played regularly in chamber groups. As such, they were awarded many prizes including the coveted Harold Craxton Prize in London. Julia, like Aisling, always favoured the Chamber repertoire, and decided to become a free-lance cellist rather than a member of a Symphony Orchestra. She plays with various groups throughout the UK in Recital and Radio recordings. These two musicians have a beautiful blend of sound, which is such a vital ingredient in the performance of Chamber Music. They think as one!
Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Music & Dance

with

Members of The Kerry Orchestra

including traditional, classical, and jazz music.

Friday, 25th July 2008 at 8.30pm

Tickets €10. Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Solo Piano Recital

Endre Hegedus

Tuesday, 22nd July & Tuesday 29th July, 2008 at 8.30pm

The passionate Hungarian pianist and prize winner of ten international piano competitions,
Endre Hegedus, performs romantic masterpieces by Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt in Waterville. This summer attendance will be his third appearance in Kerry. He had already two unforgettable recitals in Muckross House, Killarney. Hegedus' exceptional live performances distinguish him as a master of tonal beauty and clarity. International critics and audiences alike have hailed him as one of the most prominent piano soloist in the world.
Tickets €20 (conc. €15). Bookings on 066 9478956.

Further information available on www.listen-to-music-in-ireland.com

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“Shores of Waterville”
by
Yvonne North Moorhouse
Official opening by Michael Healy-Rae

Friday, 18th July 2008 at 8.00pm
(The exhibition will run from the 14th July to the 5th August)

Yvonne North Moorhouse’s art practice crosses the boundaries between new and traditional
art forms using; digital photography and image manipulation, collage and mixed media. 
Ideas are explored through various digital and paper media, creating work which is
atmospheric and contemplative, evoking a place or moment in time.  Seashore, lakeside,
and riverbank in the Waterville area are represented in a horizontal format; rather like a
narrow window through which one can view distant and remembered landscapes.  The
theme of the work is the manifold nuances of water: light and shade, depths and shallows, ripples and reflections.

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Concert

Luka Bloom

Wednesday, 16th July 2008 at 8.30pm



Having tread the boards of stages all over the globe, 36 years of craft honing has given Luka Bloom
from Newbridge a place on the music map. Like many Irish families then and indeed today Luka
comes from a family of singers and writers first going on tour with older brother, Christy Moore, in
1969. It was a tour of English folk clubs and he was fourteen years of age. That was a long time
ago. Turning 50 in 2005, Luka has brought his songs to clubs, theatres, fesitivals, bars, arenas
and dives all over the world. From McGanns in Boston to The Tivoli in Brisbane to Red Hot Club in Newbridge.

Bloom released his album Innocence in 2005. Many of the songs feature a new found interest in Eastern
European gypsy music and other World music. In his previous work, he relied on steel-stringed guitars that
created his distinctive style. His aubergine and yellow guitars were often introduced by name at gigs. The
album features a more classical guitar and the resonant plucking associated with that style of instrument.

In 2007 he released Tribe, a collaboration with County Clare musician Simon O Reilly, with O Reilly
composing the music and sending the recordings to Luka for him to complete with lyrics and singing.

A DVD entitled "The Man is Alive" was released on February 20, 2008. It features concerts filmed in Dublin
and at his home in Kildare, a question and answer session with fans, the documentary "My Name is
Luka", and a CD of music culled from the two performances.

Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Trad Concert

Kevin Burke with Cal Scott

Friday, 11th July 2008 at 8.30pm

 

Kevin Burke and his highly fluid and ornamented Sligo-style of fiddle is easily one of the most recognizable
talents in Irish music today. From his early days with the ground-breaking and now legendary Bothy Band
in the mid-70s to his tours with the Irish supergroup Patrick Street and the Celtic Fiddle Festival, Kevin Burke is
widely respected as both an ensemble player and a dynamic solo performer.

Multi-instrumentalist Cal Scott has been playing a variety of music for years, everything from folk to
jazz, on bass, brass and guitar, to name a few. He has honed that musicianship into a career as a
composer, arranger and producer. With extensive film and television scores to his credit as well as
his own CDs, Cal brings a seasoned and complementary aesthetic to his accompaniment with
Burke. He frequently sings his own songs when performing a show with Burke.
This is a duo of incredible musical depth. "

Tickets €15 (conc. €10). Bookings on 066 9478956.

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Taispeántas Ealaíne / Art Exhibition

‘Letsatsi la Boroa’

‘Southern Sun – Grian an Deiscirt’

Paintings & Drawings by

Meshu Mokitimi

(The exhibition will run from the 21st June to the 10thJuly)

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Féile na Greine/Solstice Arts Festival

21ú - 23ú Meitheamh/June 2008

A solstice arts festival, in one of the most beautiful places in Ireland; how better
could you celebrate midsummer? Tech Amergin, Waterville’s thriving new arts
centre will host a variety of performances, readings, exhibitions and children’s
events  to suit all tastes.

Music, song, dance, theatre, street theatre, painting and poetry will be on offer, from local,
national and international artists. Add to this workshops
in singing, salsa dancing, digital photography, black and white photography, sea-in-landscape
painting, glass painting, jewellery and poetry, and you get a programme that will be great fun for all.

You will hear English, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Basotho and whatever other language you choose
to bring along. It all ends with the traditional bonfire, dancing and singing on St.
John’s Eve. For more information please visit

www.feilenagreine.com

Féile na Greine 2008 Festival images

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A SUMMER CONCERT

presented by

The South Kerry Rosen Choir

Saturday 7th June 2008 at 8.30pm

Back by popular demand, The South Kerry Rosen Choir, under the direction of Veronica Shanahan-Whitehead
with Gordon Smith and other guests will sing in concert in Tech Amergin Arts Centre in Waterville.
Tickets €10 (conc €8). Bookings on 066 9478956.



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CAR BOOT AND TABLE TOP SALE

Sunday 1st June 2008 , 12.00noon - 3.00pm
Open for sellers from 10.30am. €10 per car or table. Free entry for buyers.
Sell your unwanted items or see what you can buy. Refreshments. Country Market, Books, & Cakes.

All funds raised will be used for the Lesotho project.

Further details on 066 9478637 or 087 2847833.
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ACCLAIMED IRISH CELLIST
GERALD PEREGRINE

IN CONCERT PROMOTING HIS DEBUT ALBUM
'HEAVENLY'

Sunday 25th May, 8.30pm

‘Gerald Peregrine plays the cello as if born to it’ -the Irish Times

Gerald Peregrine is one of Irelands leading young musicians. The youngest member of a well known Irish musical family, his mother is the violinist Sheila O’ Grady, his uncle the late great tenor Frank Patterson. Gerald began studying violin at the age of 3, but quickly fell in love with the cello at the age of 6.

The programme for the tour will feature tracks from Gerald’s album ‘Heavenly’, released in September 2007. The CD recorded in 2006 features popular songs arranged for cello and ensemble, by acclaimed Irish Arranger Joe Csibi. The concerts will feature tracks from the album, alongside popular virtuoso works from the standard cello repertoire.
Gerald will be accompanied on piano by well known Irish pianist Brian Connor, a former Musical Director of Riverdance.

Tickets €15 (conc. €10).

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Family Puppet Spring Show

'The Nature of Celebrity'

by Seán Ó Laoghaire

Sunday 24th February, 3.00pm

For 2008, Glitter na Gig is proud to present its most involved episode yet. Pollution has persuaded Winter to take a holiday. But, it this for the common good? Has he an alternative motive?
The maestro of media "Timmy Telly" is taking Spring away, for a make over. With the seasons missing and children of green running the show. What is going to happen? Will mother Nature wake up in time?
Will she wake up at all? What is Henry up to, only you can find out!
A family show with a difference, fun for everyone!

Do 2008, tá áthas ag Glitter na Gig a eachtra is suantasí a chur os bhur gcomhair. Tá Truailliú tar éis é a chur ina luí ag an nGeimhreadh saoirse a thógaint. Ach an é do mhaitheas na tíre? Nó an bhfuil cúis eile agie? Tá Timmy Telly, saoi na meanchumarsáide ag tógaint an Earraigh ó bhaile i gcomhair néaróg aghaidh! Leis na séasúir in easnamh agus na páistí santacha i mbun stiúradh, cad a tharlóidh? An nduiseoidh Máthair an Earraigh? An nduiseoidh sí ar chor ar bith? Cad tá á dhéanamh ag Henry, nil le deanamh ach dul chun fáíl amach! Seó éagsúil teaghlaigh, spórt agus spraoi do gach éinne.

Tickets €5. Family ticket €8.
Bookings on (066) 947 8956 or techamergin@eircom.net

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Double Book Launch

followed by a theatrical performance of
'Dylan Thomas: Return Journey'

Sunday 17th February at 7.30pm

Paddy Bushe an ex-teacher of Waterville Vocational School 'The Tech' will launch his
new book, of new & selected poems in both English and Irish, 'To Ring in Silence' on
Sunday 17th February in Tech Amergin at 7.30pm.

The second book to be launched is by Mike Sheehan, an ex-student and pupil of Paddy Bushe.
Mike is a native of South-West Kerry and after finishing school in Waterville he went on to
study at Milltown Institute of Technolgy in Dublin.
This is his first book - a philosophical journey questioning reality, living & dying.

Following the book launch:

'Dylan Thomas: Return Journey'
From the poetry and prose of Dylan Thomas

With Bob Kingdom as Dylan Thomas

Original Direction by Anthony Hopkins

 

Sunday 17th February, 8.30pm

Dylan Thomas: Return Journey recreates Thomas’s last great lecture tour enroute to the
White Horse Tavern providing its audience the opportunity to be moved by the power of Dylan Thomas’s words
through Bob Kingdom’s tour-de-force performance.

This critically acclaimed production which has been seen throughout the world including
two sell out London seasons, Off-Broadway and across America.

Tickets €12 (conc. €10)
Bookings on (066) 947 8956 or techamergin@eircom.net

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Ensemble Avalon

(A Music Network concert)

Wednesday 6th February, 8.30pm

 

Ensemble Avalon is a fresh and dynamic piano trio featuring three of Ireland's finest internationally
accomplished soloists and chamber musicians
Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin), Gerald Peregrine (cello) and Michael McHale (piano).
With a programme including Haydn, Bax, Beethoven and Bernstein, this concert
series is not to be missed.

Since their inaugural concert together in 2006, Ensemble Avalon have enjoyed a number of successes including two critically acclaimed concert tours, a performance in Italy and a full concert broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM. Hailing from both north and south of the border, Ensemble Avalon come together to explore and perform a diverse programme of existing and new piano trio works in concert. The trio has recently completed a very successful series of concerts at the Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin entitled, 'An American and Paris', which presented a contrasting selection of French and American piano trios. Their next project is the Avalon Winter Chamber Festival 2008, themed 'Beethoven and Bax' and will feature highlights from both composers alongside chamber classics and will include collaborations with guest artists from Ireland and abroad.

This concert is promoted by Music Network and Tech Amergin.
Music Network concerts provide a wonderful opportunity to see some of the world’s foremost music ensembles at affordable prices in venues around Ireland and is funded by the Arts Council.

Tickets €15 (€10 conc.)
Bookings on (066) 947 8956 or techamergin@eircom.net

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Are You Listening?

Friends of Lesotho

Photographic image by Eileen O'Leary ©

Gala 2008 Pub Quiz

(with some painless information about where your money
has gone, and why more is needed)

Waterville Inn

Friday, 11th January at 8.30pm

Raffles! Auctions! Surprises!

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MUSICAL

La Bodi

Sunday 16th December at 8.30pm.

 

A witty, whacky one woman musical romp, where unforgettable characters explore such
matters as Marriage, Money and Madness. Priscella Donovan is La Bodi, she has been
described as having the versatility of Maureen Potter and the passion of Edith Piaf.

 

Produced & Directed by Padraig Dennehy.

Fee €15 (conc. €12).

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CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE

with The South Kerry Rosen Choir

 

 

 

in Tech Amergin, Thursday 13th December at 8.30pm.

 

The South Kerry Rosen Choir under the direction of Veronica Shanahan-Whitehead
with Emma Louise Plain of the Welsh Opera Company and other guests
will sing in concert, old and new carols, in Tech Amergin Arts Centre in Waterville.

 

Admission 10 Euro.

 

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FUNDRAISING RAFFLE

Wednesday 12th December at 2.00pm

in aid of

THE CARERS ASSOCIATION KERRY.

Fear a Tí don ócáid
An Amhránaí Cáiliúla
Seán Bán Breathnach Aka Sbb
Aíonna Speisialta
Johnny & Margaret

Bígí Linn agus scaoil amach an bobailín
Tickets €5 each or book of 11 for €50

Tá an crannchur seo eagraithe ag Comhchoiste Ghaeltacht Uíbh Rathaigh i gcomhar leis an 'Carers Association'.

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FLOWER ARRANGING

 

with Ann Crowley, 'All About Flowers', Killorglin.

 

Tuesday 11th December, 8.00 - 10.00pm.

 

Admission €10.

Proceeds in aid of The Children's Leukemia Association.

 

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Christmas Craft Fair

Sunday, 9th December, 11am to 4pm

Don’t miss this chance to buy all your Christmas presents and maybe something for yourself as well!

20 stalls selling locally made crafts and local produce.

Items for sale will include Christmas decorations, Christmas cakes, knitted and woven goods, prints and pictures, cards, paintings, ceramics, bread and cheese, hemp garments, candles, stained glass, jewellery, honey and much more.

Children’s activities, refreshments available on the day.

The Craft Fair is being run by Waterville Friends of Lesotho in aid of their project in Lesotho.

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Theatre

 

The Open Door Network
Conference

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN:
THE CRIME, CONTEXT AND CONCERNS

in Tech Amergin, Monday 3rd December at 7.30pm

Alongside the conference we are pleased to present:

'In Her Shoes'

This is a moving and thought provoking exhibitionof 139 pairs of shoes
representing the number of women who have died violently in Ireland since 1996.

The exhibition will be officially opened in Siamsa Tíre on Monday the 19th November
by Mirriam McGillicuddy and will be launched on the road during the seminar on
Friday the 23rd November by Miriam O'Callaghan.

The exhibition will then travel to two rural areas of Kerry,
first to St. James Church in Dingle from Sunday the 25th to 28th November and then
to Tech Amergin in Waterville from Monday the 3rd to the 6th of December.

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Theatre

'One Night Stan'

Sunday, 11th November at 8.30pm

Plymouth 1954.

Minutes before curtain-up, Stan Laurel sits backstage – but where is his partner?

Is this the end of Laurel & Hardy?

Pondering his future, Stan revisits memories of his father, Chaplin, and his younger self.

Will the show go on?

( A one man show inspired by real events)

Tickets €15 (concs. €12). Booking on 066 9478956.

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Traditional Concert

with Mary McPartlan, Tommy Peoples and Tom Moore

Friday 9th November at 8.30pm.

The Arts Council touring experiment..

‘Dark Horse On The Wind’ is one of the Traditional Arts tours, featuring Mary Mc Partlan, Tommy Peoples and Tom Moore. This tour will bring together all aspects and delicate intricacies of traditional music and song. These artists will collaborate not only in their shared histories and interpretations of music and song but will bring with them their widely celebrated unique styles. The artists featured are no strangers to the eyes and ears of traditional music and song lovers and each have award winning albums and special recognition for projects and performances in recent years.

Tickets €15 (concs. €12). Booking on 066 9478956.

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Fetac Presentation Night

Wednesday, 7th November at 7.00pm

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Kerry Film Festival

As part of the Film Festival Tech Amergin will screen selected shorts on
Saturday 3rd November at 7.30pm. Tickets €5.

FRANKIE Ireland 2007 12 mins DVD, 35 mm Colour

Frankie is 15 and preparing for fatherhood he is determined to be the best dad ever, but as his day goes on, he starts to realize how impossible this will be for him. Writer/Director - Darren Thornton

A STRANGE REQUEST Ireland 2007 4mins 25secs DigiBeta Colour

A patient lies helpless in an errie hospital. He asks the cleaning lady for some help. This strange request has unforeseen consequences. Director - Maurice O’Carroll

BLIND EYE Ireland 2007 12 mins 16 sec DVD Colour

Sabina Wisniak, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany packs her case while downstairs in the hallway, an Irish immigration official is waiting to deport her. She makes a moving, last minute appeal to the immigration official, but he remains heartless and escorts her away to the mail boat while Sabina hopes for some trace of compassion. Director - Damien de Burca

BRIGHT IDEA Ireland 2007 5mins 37sec DVD Colour

A group of bored medical students occupy their time with silly games and dares, however they are about to realise that some ideas are not so bright... Director - Vincent Gallagher

NEW BOY Ireland 2007 10mins 52sec DVD Colour

Based on a short story by Roddy Doyle this poignant and comedic short film deftly captures the experience of being the new boy in school through the eyes of Joseph, a nine-year-old African boy.  Writer/Director - Steph Green

 

THE END IS NIGHT Ireland 2007 4mins 35mm Colour

When a farmer discovers an ancient amulet with the power to destroy the world, he does what any of us would do…

Director/Writer - James Cotter

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Ireland 2007 4mins 20sec DVD, Mini DV Colour

Wong, Lucy and Femi, three foreign workers in a shop are frequently subjected to underhanded racism by some of the customers. Jacinta is one of the main culprits. She had little patience for them when they first started working in the shop and has even less now as they repeatedly get her lunch order wrong. She is about to confront them after it happened again; the question is, are the workers going to sit back and take it?

Director - Sean Murray

 

THE VAUDEVILLIAN USA 2007 16mins DVD Colour

A ventriloquist's relationship with his dummy is strained after they lose their job with a traveling vaudeville act. The ventriloquist realizes he is able to scam farmers for money, much to the dummy's dismay, and loses his conscience so that he can continue.

Director - Bryan Nest

AN CREÁTUR Ireland 2007 19mins 35mm Colour

Uniquely spanning 15 years in as many scenes, “An Creátur” (“The Poor Creature”) tells the story of a young boy and a moment which changes his life forever. Writer/Director - Peter Foott

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Féile na Greine/Solstice Arts Festival

21ú - 23ú Meitheamh/June 2007

For more information please visit

www.feilenagreine.com

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Letters of a Match Maker by John B. Keane

Monday 18th June, 8.30 pm

presented by the 'Call Back theatre' 

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‘Smallone’

Sunday 27th May, 8.00 pm

One-woman show with Joan Sheehy. The play won an Ozzie Whitbread Award in 2000 as best one-act play. Since then it has been developed onto a 70-minute play and opened to great reviews in the Andrew Lane Studio in Dublin prior to its current tour.

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‘Music & Song’
Saturday 26th May, 8.30 pm

Music and Song with Alex Finn, of Dé Dannan fame, on bazouki, Mary Saunton, singer & accordionist & Seán Garvey, singer.

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Classical Recital by internationally acclaimed pianist, Ivan Ilić.

Sunday 20th May, 8.00 pm

	A rising star on the Parisian music scene, 28 year old American pianist Ivan Ilić is gaining international recognition for his “unique blend of a Gallic touch, a Slavic soul and a mathematician’s precision.” A disciple of the legendary François-René Duchâble, Ivan is supported by the American Foundation in Paris, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the Karić Foundation (Belgrade), and the Helen von Ammon Fund for Emerging Artists (San Francisco). Ivan recently completed a one-year residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts; he is currently supported by the Nadia Boulanger Foundation in Paris.

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Traditional Session with Paul Brock & Enda Scahill

Saturday 28th April, 8.30 pm

	Master musicians Paul Brock & Enda Scahill have just released their new CD “Humdinger”, a recording of Melodeon and Banjo Music drawing its influence from the Golden Era of Irish Music in the Music Halls of America in the 1920’s and 30’s. The music is full of exuberance and flair and mixes modern virtuosi playing with the repertoire of the early pioneering recordings. Paul and Enda are joined on this recording by Ryan Molloy, a pianist and All-Ireland Champion fiddler player from Co. Tyrone, and Tommy Hayes from Co. Clare on percussion.

‘From the Shoulders Down’

Sunday 8th April, 8.00pm

One-man show, written and acted by Richard Lynch. The play chronicles the life of P.J. Mulpeter, forced to finish school at Primary Level and spend his working life ‘soldering’ on building sites in England.
The show has been touring nationally to great critical acclaim.

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Lá le Pádraig '07

Concert of traditional music and song

Tech Amergin 17th March


featuring Tim Dennehy, Ardú, Sean Garvey and Coney Joe




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Waterville / Friends of Lesotho


Photographic image by Eileen O'Leary ©

Twinning the Kingdoms - Kerry and Lesotho

	As part of the United Nations Millenium Development Goals, the Kingdoms of Kerry and Lesotho are involved in a twinning project to aid development and exchange culture. ‘The Waterville Friends of Lesotho’ group was set up in February 2007, following the visit of HE Mannete Ramaili , Lesotho Ambassador to the Tech for the opening of a Photographic Exhibition by Eileen O’Leary. A group of interested people got together to form a support group to forge links with a village in Lesotho and to work directly with the village committee. We will work with Eileen O’Leary who regularly visits Lesotho, to ensure that all money raised is spent directly on the priorities of the village people. Whether the money is used for education, health, the care of Aids orphans or the production of food, it will be well spent. By the end of March 2007 we will have formed links with the village and know exactly where the money will be spent.
	The first of our fund-raisers will be a sponsored walk on 16 th March from the Tech to St. Fionnán’s Well in Caherbearna at 1.30 pm, this will coincide with the feast of St. Fionnán and hopefully will help revive the pattern tradition of making rounds at the holy well.

Photographic image by Eileen O'Leary ©
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Éigse na Brídeoige 2ú, 3ú, 4ú Feabhra

For more information please go to

TWINNING THE KINGDOMS



The Kingdom of Lesotho's Ambassador to Ireland
H.E. Mannete Ramaili
opening an Exhibition of Photographs from Lesotho by Eileen O'Leary
in Tech Amergin, Waterville, Tuesday 5th December.




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CHRISTMAS CONCERT
December 8th 2006

The Kerry Chamber Orchestra Kerry's first professional orchestra
presented 'A Celebration of Christmas' with guest performers Adolf and Maja Packeiser,
Gavin O'Connor (Bass Baritone) and Mary Culloty O' Sullivan (Soprano)
on Friday, December 8th, Tech Amergin, Waterville.

The programme included excerpts from Handel's Messiah,
Locatelli Christmas Concerto, and traditional Christmas carols.

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Official Opening Art Exhibition
in Tech Amergin, October 24th 2006

Tús Maith Arts Festival/Féile Ealáine
Tech Amergin 27th - 29th October 2006

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