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12th Annual
Féile an Fhómhair
SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 7 2012
FREE PROGRAMME
Presented By
Donegal County Council Cultural Services
www.donegalcoco.ie
www.donegalgathering.com
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Clár Contents
Drámaíocht Carnabhal Theatre Carnival
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Taispeántais Litríocht Visual Arts Literary Events
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Imeachtaí do Pháistí Childrens Events
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Bookáil Booking
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Dialann Lae Day by Day Diary
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Ceol Music
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Réamhrá Introduction
This the 12th. year of the Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks
Festival. A Donegal County Council Cultural Services
initiative, the Festival seeks to provide a colourful and
exciting context for the practice and enjoyment of the
arts in the South of the County.
Among the highlights of the event is the Carnival
Parade in Ballyshannon which this year adopts a
seafaring theme – Imramh Bran or The Voyage of Bran.
It includes a greatly expanded pre-Carnival Workshop
Programme which will see upwards of 200 local
children, teenagers and adults avail of a wide variety
of training in theatre, dance and carnival skills. The
hugely anticipated Parade and Finalé Show takes place
on Saturday night, October 6.
Once again theatre features strongly, with David
Mamet’s Oleanna opening the Festival programme
at the Balor Arts Centre and Balor Rep Theatre
Company touring their hugely entertaining production
of Philip Deane’s hit Australian play, Long Gone
Lonesome Cowgirls. Greeted by standing ovations
at its Irish premier performances in Ballybofey in
August, its sure to be a big hit with Festival audiences
in Ballyshannon, Killybegs and Glenties. And there’s
further new drama to look forward to at The Abbey
Arts Centre, Ballyshannon when Dark Daughter
Productions present Maura Logue’s Anna Katherine
Kelly, the story of the woman who received the last
place on the last lifeboat to leave the sinking Titanic.
Lace make the long trip from Kinshasa (via Cork!) to
Ballyshannon.
Congratulations are in order to Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí,
as this is the 30th. year of their annual Donegal
Fiddlers Gathering in Glenties. Among the artists
taking part in the special Saturday night concert on
October 6 will be Vincent Campbell, Danny Meehan,
Dermot McLaughlin, Tara Connaghan, Derek
McGinley, Ingebjor Sorboen, Paul Anderson and
Meave Donnelly. The Gathering will also include a
presentation of the excellent Fiddle Case Exhibition,
which was commissioned for the North Atlantic Fiddle
Convention held in Donegal and Derry, earlier this
year.
We are extremely happy to welcome RTE Radio 1’s
Sunday Miscellany show back to the Festival for a
third time. Once again, the show’s producer and
presenter Clíodhna Ní Anluain has selected an
intriguing line-up of writers and musicians from
Donegal and beyond including Kevin McAleer, Peter
Sirr, Denise Blake, Joe Woods, Enda Wylie, Donegal
Camerata String Quintet, Seamus McGuire and Garry
O’Briain, Fidil and Doimnic Mac Ghiolla Bhríde. Two
radio shows will be recorded live at The Abbey Centre,
Ballyshannon on Sunday afternoon, October 7.
There’s classic Neil Simon comedy in Donegal Town
where Donegal Drama Circle revel in the feast of gags,
one liners and general hilarity that is The Odd Couple.
The show opens at the John Bosco Centre on Monday
night, October 1.
Brendan Alexander’s magical Donegal Skies exhibition
will open at the Abbey Arts Centre on Saturday
night, September 29. His stunning photographs of
the Northern Lights over Donegal earlier this year
received widespread national and international
attention and this will be the first time a collection
of his favourite works has been curated for public
exhibition.
Following the great success of NorthWest Opera’s
Carmen last year, the company are back at The Balor
Arts Centre for this year’s Festival with another hugely
popular classic, Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus.
With a cast of local and international singers and
actors, a live orchestra and their largest community
chorus to-date, this will be a feast of comic opera not
to be missed.
There is further world-class photography on show
at the Man-made images Photography Gallery
in Mountcharles where Wolf Ademeit’s Animals
exhibition is an absolute must, while Glencolmcille’s
Meitheal Ealaíne exhibition, featuring work by Deborah
J. Stockdale, Margaret Cunningham, Ana Stromberg,
Rik Walton and Micheal Doherty, will be open at The
Gallery in Cashel for the duration of the Festival.
Festival audiences can also look forward to the
best of Donegal and visiting music with a fabulous
Festival double bill of Scullion and The Henry Girls
at the Balor Arts Centre on Saturday, September
29. Excitement will be at fever pitch in Bundoran on
Thursday, October 4 when the brilliant Wild Herrings
take to the stage once again, while Boston’s finest
Oldtime American band, Session Americana, perform
in Dunkineely on the same evening. On Carnival night,
its Congolese rhumba all the way when The
We are particularly happy that the Festival’s
Programme for Schools this year features new work
by three Donegal artists - Little John Nee’s Bag of
Queens, Joe Brennan’s delightful Whispering Waves
and the new Impact Forum Theatre Company’s
thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking double
bill, Happy Birthday and Take Me Out. We are also
delighted to have Branar Drámaíocta’s wonderful
Clann Lir in Donegal and to welcome back the fabulous
Fanzini Brothers with another manic creation,
Professor Plunger!
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Theatre Carnival
Drámaíocht Carnabhal
THEATRE, CARNIVAL DRÁMAÍOCHT THEATRE
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Company D Theatre
Oleanna
By David Mamet.
Directed by Ruth Calder-Potts.
With David Scott and Sinéad O’Riordan.
Dublin’s Company D Theatre present
Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s tense
psychological drama of American university
politics, student – teacher relationships and a
possible case of sexual harassment.
A genuine case or just plain blackmail ?
Only the audience can decide.
Oleanna was Mamet’s reaction to the
celebrated 1991 Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas
sexual harassment hearings where Hill
alleged that Thomas – then a nominee to the
American Supreme Court – verbally sexually
harassed her while he was her supervisor at
the US Department of Agriculture. The original
Broadway production featured William H.
Macy as academic John with Rebecca Pidgeon
as his student, Claire.
Friday September 28
Balor Arts Centre Ballybofey
8.30pm €15 / €10
Experiencing Davis Mamet’s Oleanna on stage
was one of the most stimulating experiences
I’ve had in a theatre. In two acts he succeeded in
enraging all of the audience – the women in the
first act, the men in the second.
Chicago Sun Times.
Oleanna is an impassioned response to
the Thomas hearings, it could not be more
incendiary in its ambitions.
New York Times.
Company D’s simple, sleek production captures
the complex power play between the two
characters intriguingly well….played with
conviction and intelligence … Sinéad O’Riordan is
utterly convincing.
Irish Theatre Magazine.
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Anna
Katherine
Kelly
The Story of a
Titanic Survivor
Written and Performed
by Maura Logue.
Original music Composed and
Performed by Niamh Currid.
Saturday September 29
Abbey Arts Centre Ballyshannon
8.00pm FREE Booking Advisable
The true story of Anna Katherine Kelly
( ‘Ticket No. 9234, Third Class’ ), from
Lahardane, Co. Mayo, who by a simple twist of
fate, survived the sinking of the Titanic when
offered the last place, on the last lifeboat to
leave the stricken ship.
Maura Logue is a well-known local actress,
drama producer and founder member of Dark
Daughter Productions. Last year, she played
the part of Judith O’Donnell in An Grianán
Theatre / Workhouse Theatre’s hugely
successful festival production of Brian Friel’s
Aristocrats and earlier this year produced the
very well received Deckchairs trilogy, by Jean
McConnell, for the Abbey Arts Centre and the
Bealtaine Festival.
Niamh Currid is a highly respected
musician, composer and music teacher
from Ballyshannon. She has been Musical
Director on many productions for the Abbey
Arts Centre, Dark Daughter Productions and
Ballyshannon Music and Drama Society and
is also accompanist for the Creevy Singers.
Company D Theatre
Acting Technique
Workshop
David Scott
10.00am – 4.00pm €25
Booking 074 9131840
David Scott, star
of Company D’s
Oleanna and
Director of the
Performance
Theatre Company
at the Gaeity School
of Acting, conducts
an energetic and
enjoyable acting
masterclass,
suitable for actors
and directors alike. The workshop will outline
and explore the techniques used by David
Scott and Sinéad O’Riordan in the creation of
their roles for Oleanna and participants will be
encouraged to apply these methods to selfdevised improvisations throughout the day.
David Scott is a widely experienced actor,
director, writer and drama teacher. He has
written and directed eight plays to date for
Company D Theatre and has appeared in many
TV and theatre productions including The Clinic,
The Tudors, Game of Thrones, True West, The
Importance of Being Earnest and Richard III.
See www.davidscott.ie
Impact Forum Theatre
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Happy
Birthday
Take Me Out
Directed by Idan Meir.
Monday October 1
1.00pm FREE
Impact Forum Theatre Group, in association
with An Grianán Theatre and The Alley Arts
Centre, bring you two newly devised pieces
of Forum theatre. Each short play is inspired
by the personal stories and life experiences
of people living with disabilities and sensory
impairments.
Happy Birthday is a play that tells the story
of Alice. We meet Alice on the eve of her
21st birthday, excited and looking forward to
partying the night away. However things do
not go to plan for the young woman as she
faces into a night of disappointments and
embarrassments.
Take Me Out is... you guessed it... the story of
a young man who has applied to go on the
popular TV show. Seeking the support of his
family as he follows his dream of becoming a
star, young PJ meets with resistance.
Can our audience help out Alice and PJ? Can
they change the reality of the plays, giving
Alice the birthday she deserves and PJ the
chance to be himself?
Impact are a new theatre group who feel
strongly about the issues relating to disability,
inclusion and equality. They are bringing their
stories to the stage to encourage debate, to
create an awareness of disability in the
community and above all to create change.
This is a forum theatre event, whereby
audience members are encouraged to get out
of their seats and in on the action.
This is a two-hour event and is particularly
suitable for second level school students.
Further Information from An Grianán Theatre
Tel. 074 9123288. Also on facebook at Impact
Forum Theatre Group.
This is a project developed by An Grianán
Theatre in partnership with The Alley Theatre,
Strabane. It is supported by the European
Union’s INTERREG IVA Programme managed
by the Special EU Programmes Body and
delivered by Co-operation and Working
Together (CAWT) Community Awareness
Programme.
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Donegal Drama Circle
The Odd Couple
By Neil Simon. Directed by Art Kavanagh.
Monday – Wednesday
October 1-3
St. John Bosco Centre Donegal Town
8.00pm €12/€10 Tickets at Door
Everything you do irritates me. And when
you are not here, the things I know you’re
gonna do when you come in irritate me.
You leave me little notes on my pillow…
’We are all out of cornflakes. FU.’ It took
me three hours to figure out that FU was
Felix Ungar ! Oscar Madison
Neil Simon’s classic comic drama of
a totally miss-matched house-share
was first staged in New York in 1965.
Neurotic, neat-freak Felix Ungar is
thrown out by his wife and moves in
with Oscar Madison, his dysfunctional,
wise-cracking sportswriter friend. The
original Tony Award–winning production
featured Walter Matthau as Oscar with
Art Carney as Felix. It ran for 2 years,
played 950 performances, spawned an
Academy Award-nominated film version
with Walther Mathau and Jack Lemmon
and inspired an iconic TV series from
1970 –1975 with Tony Randall and Jack
Klugman. The stage version has enjoyed
many revivals the world over, including a
hugely successful Edinburgh Fringe
Festival version in 2005 with the inspired
pairing of Bill Bailey and Alan Davies.
Walter Matthau and Art Carney in the 1965
Broadway Production
Donegal Drama Circle have produced
a play for the Festival each year since
its inception. Last year’s Dancing At
Lughnasa was an outstanding success
and previous highlights have included
Martin McDonagh’s Connemara Trilogy,
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Observe
The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The
Somme and Carthaginians.
For this special Festival production,
Christian Carbin plays Felix Ungar and
Conor Friery is Oscar Madison. With
Suzanne Thomas and Caroline Faulkner
as the Pigeon Sisters - Cecily and
Gwendolyn - Oscar and Felix’s upstairs
neighbours and Sean McLoone, Seamus
McHugh, Ryan Doherty and Donal Friery
as their poker playing buddies.
Two old friends who react like oil and
water – only funnier, thanks to a barrage
of brilliant one-liners. New York Times
Balor Rep Theatre Company
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Long Gone
Lonesome Cowgirls
Saturday October 6
A play by Philip Deane.
Directed by Kieran Quinn.
With Orla Mullin and Aoife Boyce
Foresters Hall Killybegs
Wednesday October 3
Community Centre Glenties
Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls is the
brand new production from the people
who sold out Festival venues in 2010
with Women On the Verge Of HRT and
produced the hugely successful Patsy
Cline Story last year. The country music
theme continues this time round, but
the action switches to the Australian
Outback during the late 1960s, where
two very different women become best
friends through their passionate love of
American country music.
Orla Mullin and Aoife
Boyce shine in a
production that drew
spontaneous standing
ovations at the show’s
premier performances
at the Balor Arts
Centre in August.
This is very much the
play with everything
- two characters that
audiences immediately
take to their hearts, a
Sunday October 7
All Performances 8.30pm €12 / €10
All Booking 071 98 51375
script that crackles with humour and
dry Australian wit, brilliant singing
and priceless renditions of Crazy and
Jackson like you’ve never hear them
before! A great night out is guaranteed.
a wonderfully bittersweet comedy with
a script to rival some of the greatest
landmark Australian movies of the last 20
years. The Stage.
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Festival Carnival Parade
Imram Bran
The Voyage of Bran
saturday October 6
College Street Castle Street The Port Ballyshannon 7.30pm
Carnival this year finds its inspiration in the
ancient Celtic sea voyager tales or ‘imram’,
of which Imram Bran or The Voyage of Bran
is the most celebrated and most exotic.
Bran and his people are entranced to leave
Ireland and sail the seas in search of the
Promised Land, an Otherworldly place
where it’s always summer, there’s is no
want of food or water, the surf is always up
and no sickness or despair ever touches
the beautiful people. On their travels they
encounter strange creatures, visit magical
lands and meet many fantastic and exotic
peoples. They eventually reach their
destination and enjoy years of happiness
before homesickness befalls them and
they return to an Ireland that no longer
remembers them.
Under the direction of Maura Logue, the
magic and fantasy of The Voyage of Bran
will be brought to life on the streets of
Ballyshannon with specially designed
props, costumes and sounds provided by
LUXe, Workhouse Studios, Réalta Fire
Performers and Inishowen Carnival
Group. They will be joined by up to 200
local performers who have participated
in the Carnival Workshop programme
facilitated by, among others, Fiona Marie
Fitzpatrick, Niamh Currid, Dark Daughter
Productions, Streetwise Community
Circus, Stars of the West and Itchy Feet
Percussion since early September.
The Parade and the Carnival Finale –
Journey Into The Unknown – will include
participants from primary schools in
South Donegal, teenagers and Transition
Year students from Coláiste Choilm Cille
and Coláiste Magh Éne, Ballyshannon
Bundoran Neighbourhood Youth Project,
Rosnowlagh Rural Womens Group,
Ballyshannon Musical Society, Parthalon
Street Band, Ballyshannon Drama Society
and the new Bundoran Samba Band.
Please Note. Parking Restrictions and
Traffic Diversions will be in place along
the Parade Route from 6.00pm – 9.00pm.
Please co-operate with Parade Stewards,
An Garda Síochána and Civil Defence
Personnel at all times. Warm Clothing
is advisable. Carnival Enquiries to
darkdaughterevents@gmail.com Come out
and enjoy the Parade !
Also. Dicey Reilly’s Market Street
Ballyshannon 9.30pm
Enjoy a Post Carnival Party with IrishCongolese danceband The Lace See P.16
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Special Festival Double Bill
Scullion
Sonny Condell Philip King Robbie Overson
The Henry Girls
€20 8.30pm
The Festival, in association with Balor Arts
Centre, is delighted to present Scullion’s first
Donegal show in over 20 years. Three decades
on from their formative gigs together, the
band’s signature sound is as strong as ever
as they revisit their impressive catalogue of
songwriting landmarks - Eyelids Into Snow,
Down In The City, White Side of The Night,
Driving, John The Baptist,
and more.
This fantastic Festival Double Bill is
completed by The Henry Girls – the three
McLaughlin sisters from Malin - who
have spent most of this year touring and
performing in Ireland, Germany, the US and,
most recently, the UK. Their current CD,
December Moon, which was recorded last year
in Glasgow and Inishowen, showcases their
inimitable blend of stunning vocal harmonies
with traditional Irish and Scottish, jazz and
Oldtime American music.
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The Wild Herrings
The Raggamuffins
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Thursday October 4
The Kicking Donkey Bundoran
10.00pm FREE
live internet broadcast on
https://new.livestream.com/
accounts/1441588/events/1369686
and LIve Stream (Kicking Donkey)
10.00pm - 12.00am
22.00hrs - 24.00hrs GMT
From the mid to late 1980s, Ballyshannon
band The Wild Herrings were among the most
exciting young bands playing in Ireland, thanks
to a clutch of highly original surf punk tunes
like Buy Me A Drink, Fat Politicians, Crash and
Burn and extensive and regular airplay on
shows like Radio 2’s Dave Fanning.
See www.fanningsessions.wordpress.com/
the-wild-herrings
The band included sisters Fiona and Irene
Pender on vocals, saxophone, accordian
and mandolin with guitarist John Kane,
Patsy O’Kane on bass and Micheal Christie
on drums. They originally formed while the
sisters were at still at school to enter a local
talent competition, which they won, making it
to the grand final of RTE’s Screen Test,
a forerunner of X-Factor ( minus the text
voting! ) presented by Mike Murphy.
The band folded in 1988 with various
members going on to perform in a series of
successful Donegal ensembles including The
Malfunctions, Georgia and Boxtie. The band
got together earlier this year for a reunion
gig on behalf of Hennigan’s Bar in Sligo and
decided it was too much fun to abandon to the
history books. The Festival is indebted to all the members of
The Wild Herrings for coming together for this
performance and particularly to Patsy O’Kane
for organising the internet broadcast so that
the show maybe enjoyed, as it happens, by
Donegal people all over the world.
The Raggamuffins are an energetic six-piece
reggae band based in the North West. Having
formed in early 2012, they have already
taken the local music scene by storm with a
hugely successful Thursday night residency
in Bundoran’s Kickin’ Donkey. Fronted by
singers Fiona Maria Fitzpatrick and Roisin
Atcheson, the band also features drums,
percussion, bass, guitars and the occasional
brass section, with members of groups such
as Kíla, M.A.S.S and The Mirenda Rosenberg
Band joining in. They perform a range of
material including tracks by Toots & The
Maytals, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley amongst
others. Be warned, dancing is compulsory!
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Cuireann Coiste Cultúrtha
Dhún Cheann Fhaola i láthair
Session
Americana
Thursday October 4
McIntyre’s Bar Dunkineely
8.30 pm €5
www.sessionamericana.com
Prior to their headlining appearances
at the Cork Folk Festival, Boston band
Session Americana make a welcome
return to Donegal, playing in the south
of the county for the very first time.
A huge hit at last year’s Earagail and
Galway arts festivals, they perform
as guests of Coiste Cultúrtha Dhún
Cheann Fhaola, a collective of local
musicians and music enthusiasts who
have presided over a series highly
succesful traditional music concerts
and events in Dunkineely over the
past twelve months. Appropriately
enough, Session Americana first came
together in Boston in 2003 around
the idea of applying the informality
and sponteneity of an Irish traditional
music session to the playing of
traditional country and Oldtime
American music and song.
As such, Session Americana’s live
show is akin to a family gathering of
musicians seated at a round table
swapping songs and instruments.
The band includes Ry Cavanaugh (guitar, mandocello,
vocals), Billy Beard (drums/vocals), Kimon Kirk
(bass/vocals), Jim Fitting (harmonica/vocals)
and Dinty Child (fiddle, banjo, guitar, accordion,
keyboards, vocals).
Session Americana released their fourth CD,
Love and Dirt, last month.
I’d give them 100 miles. That is to say, if they’re playing
anywhere within 100 miles of your home, you drive there
and are grandly rewarded for your effort.
David Greenberger, National Public Radio
Every show seems a welcome surprise, not least to
them. A long running swap shop among old friends,
musicians facing each other over a round bar table,
exchanging instruments as quickly as quips.
No Depression.
A fun, fresh take on old-fashioned and timeless music.
Boston Globe.
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Altered States
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A Journey along the Donegal, Leitrim and Fermanagh Border
By Marc Geagan.
Friday October 5
Marlboro House Sea Road Bundoran
9.00pm FREE
Altered States examines the history of the Border between Donegal, Fermanagh and Leitrim,
detailing the socio-economic effects of partition in this area. Part lecture, intertwined with a
musical score, multimedia and animated by actors playing historical roles, Altered States is a
compelling narrative that attempts to demystify the issues surrounding the Border. Presented by
Marc Geagan and musicians Alan Cooke, Scott McGettigan, Kevin Lowery and Zac Drummond,
with actress Maura Logue.
Friday Night Jazz Club
Friday October 5
Marlboro House Sea Road Bundoran
10.30pm FREE
The monthly Friday Night Jazz Club at Bundoran’s Marlboro House
is Donegal’s longest running jazz club and attracts some of the
best musicians in the area. Over the past three years the club has
continued to go from strength to strength. Regular house musicians
have played alongside some notable artists such as Chuck Berry and
Henry Mc Cullough. The Jazz Club continues on the first Friday of
every month.
Lyrics and Lilt
Winifred McNulty Miffy Hoad
Friday October 5
Village Tavern Bar and Restaurant
Mountcharles
8.30pm FREE
A special performance of new, original Songs and Poetry in the hilltop village of Mountcharles.
Winifred McNulty has published poetry in Mslexia, The Shop and the anthology, Badal. She is
co-author with photographer Heike Thiele of High Shelves and Long Counters (History Ireland
Press 2012), an evocative portrait of the last of the oldstyle shops in the North West of Ireland.
Winifred has read her work at festivals and on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany. She lives in Doorin,
Mountcharles.
Miffy Hoad was humming tunes from before she could talk and has been singing and making
music ever since. She began song writing fourteen years ago but because motherhood was
her priority, a lot of her material remained unheard until recently. She is now working on her
first album. Spiritual, emotional and purposeful about the business of living, her songs in a folk
blues style reflect her relationship with life.
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NorthWest Opera
Die
Fledermaus
By Johann Strauss II
Directed by JC Bonner.
Musical Director and
Orchestra Conductor, Anton Zapf.
Sung in English and with English
dialogue.
Friday – Saturday
October 5-6
8.00pm €18/€12
After last year’s brilliant Carmen, North West
Opera are back with a classic comic opera set
in 19th c. Vienna – a hilarious tale of revenge,
disguise, masked balls and mistaken identity
that’s guaranteed to delight and entertain.
Die Fledermaus is German for ‘The Bat’, and
refers to a late-night prank played by Gabriel
Von Eisenstein on a friend, Dr. Falke, whom
he abandons dressed as a bat after a fancy
dress party, only for the latter to wake up next
day in the town square to general ridicule.
The Batman plans his clever revenge on Von
Eisenstein by manner and means which unfold
hilariously as the opera proceeds through
its three acts, set successively in the Von
Eisenstein mansion, Prince Orlovsky’s country
estate, and ultimately the Town Jail !
Die Fledermaus is Strauss’ most celebrated
and popular operetta, containing some of the
most captivating music ever composed for the
genre. The Overture is one of the most popular
ever written, with five of the best tunes woven
into a framework of the great Fledermaus
Waltz. Audiences will recognise much of the
music, including the famed Czardas aria, the
maid Adele’s beautiful Laughing Song and the
rousing Champagne Song.
Once again North West Opera has assembled
a cast which pairs world class operatic voices
with the best of local talent, backed this year
by the largest NW Opera Chorus to-date and
accompanied by a live Orchestra conducted
by Anton Zapf, Assistant Conductor to the
Stuttgart State Opera and a distinguished
composer in his own right. With Jens Muller
( Baritone ) as Gabriel Von Eisenstein, Ann
Jennings (Soprano) as Rosalind, Gudun
Ayasse ( Soprano ) as Adele and Markus
Herzog ( Tenor) as Alfred. Also Margaret
McAteer as Adele’s sister Ida, Donal
Kavanagh as Dr. Blind and Eoghan Mac
Ghiolla Bhríde as the Jailer, with Diana
McLaughlin as Prince Orlofsky, Aaron O’Hare
as Dr. Falke.
Cuireann Cairdeas na
bhFidléirí i láthair
The 30th. Annual
Donegal
Fiddlers
Gathering
FRIDAY – SUNDAY
OCTOBER 5-7
The Highlands Hotel Glenties
www.donegalfiddlemusic.com
The Glenties Weekend is an occasion for
Donegal’s fiddle players and fans to gather, play
and generally celebrate the wonderful legacy of
Donegal’s music. The Weekend also features a
selection of excellent players from other styles.
Fiddle Masterclasses
Saturday and Sunday 11.30am to 1.00pm at
The Highlands Hotel. There is no charge but
Booking on 071 9852144 or rabcherry1@gmail.
com, is advisable.
Remembering Simon Doherty
On Saturday at 12.30pm there will be a talk
remembering Simon Doherty, followed by a look
at the growing acceptance of Donegal music
over the past 30 years. FREE.
The Fiddle Case Exhibition
The Warehouse Main Street Glenties
Friday 11.00am –6.00pm
Saturday 11.00am – 7.00pm
Sunday 12.00 noon – 6.00pm
The Fiddle Case Exhibition was created
specially for the very successful North Atlantic
Fiddle Convention (NAFCo) which took place
in Donegal and Derry at the end of June.
Developed by and first shown at the Regional
Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, it tells the story of
traditional fiddle playing around the world with
a special emphasis on the fiddle heartlands of
Ireland (mostly Donegal of course!), Scotland,
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Scandinavia, Cape Breton, Newfoundland
and Quebec in Canada and the Appalacian
and Bluegrass States of the US. It consists of
a series of beautifully designed wall panels,
documentary films about fiddlers, fiddle playing
and oldtime céilí dancing as well as samples of
various types of fiddles and a selection of other
materials.
The exhibition has come about through the
work and generosity of, in particular, Dr. Liz
Doherty of University of Ulster at Magee,
Convenor of NAFCo 2012; Aidan O’Donnell,
principal exhibition researcher; Caoimhín
Mac Aoidh and Rab Cherry, Shaun Hannigan,
Director of the Regional Cultural Centre,
Letterkenny and especially Eamonn Bonner
of C. Bonner & Sons Ltd. who has generously
made the historic Warehouse building available
for the event.
GALA CONCERT
Saturday October 6
The Highlands Hotel 9.00pm €10
The concert will feature performances by
many of the leading local players including
Danny Meehan from Mountcharles, Breifni
and Iarflaith O’Donnell from South West
Donegal, Tara Connaghan and Derek McGinley
from Glenties and Glencolmcille, Dermot
McLaughlin from Derry, and Vincent Campbell
from Glenties who will be joined on the night
by Clare-based, Galway fiddle player Maeve
Donnelly.
The organisers are delighted to welcome back
Aberdeenshire fiddler Paul Anderson and
Norwegian Hardanger fiddle virtuoso, Ingebjor
Sorboen.
Tickets for Saturday night’s concert will be
available at The Highlands Hotel on the night of
the performance. Tel. 074 9551111.
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MUSIC CEOL
Post Carnival Soukous Party
The Lace
Saturday October 6
Dicey Reilly’s Market Street Ballyshannon
€5 9.30pm
The perfect band the keep the Carnival mood
flowing, The Lace are a group of six all–star
Congolese musicians, newly relocated to
Ireland. The Lace’s performances will always
mean ‘its time to party’, push the limits, wave
the arms in the air - as encouraged by band
leader Daniel - and strut outrageously, as
demonstrated by John and Jean out front.
Their concerts will usually start with some
gently swaying traditional Congolese Rumba
made popular by legendary bands like Luambo
Franco’s TPOK Jazz and as the audience gets
warmed up, the band will turn up the heat.
After a few gear changes The Lace are in
overdrive, and they’ve taken the audience with
them, without fail.
In their own words, The Lace are …’Daniel
Muyombo, guitar and vocals: Born in
Kinshasa, Daniel performed with some of
the greatest and best known Congolese acts
ever formed, including Luambo Franco’s OK
Jazz and Zaiko Langa Langa before moving to
Ireland. Mbiko Fololo Oscar Troca, drums.
Also born in Kinshasa, Troca formerly played
with Anti Choc and Zaiko Langa Langa
before joining The Lace when he moved to
Cork. Serge Kamulete, bass guitar: Born in
Angola and recent addition to the band, Serge
previously played with Promise Musica, Madilu
System and Victoria Eleison in Kinshasa
‘Abdul Mkosi, rhythm guitar, keeping
the rumba rhythms tight and flowing in true
Congolese style. Kevin Senga, vocals, dance,
stix and shakers. Also born in Kinshasa and
another original member of The Lace, Kevin
is the key mover in the band with his crucial
Soukous dance steps. John Tampwhou and
Jean Djamba, vocals and dance are two new
members who are always keen to keep the
crowd moving with their sweet harmonies and
wild gyrations!‘
Too good to miss!
Literature Exhibitions Litríocht Taispeántais
Literature Exhibitions
Litríocht Taispeántais
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Summer Palace Press with Donegal
Bay and Blue Stacks Festival
Reading
for
Rescue
Donegal Writers for the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution
Ard na Mona Room Hyland Central Hotel
Donegal Town
10.00am – 5.00pm Donations at Door.
Reading for Rescue will be a continuous
reading by Donegal writers to raise funds for
the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
( RNLI ), the charity that saves lives at sea.
Participating writers will have been born
in Donegal, have lived in Donegal, or have
a close connection with Donegal. Each
writer will read from their work for up to ten
minutes and there will be a short Memorial
Reading for Joe Kane, Noelle Vial and James
Simmons, during the course of the day.
All funds raised through audience donation
will go to support the work of the RNLI, to
whom the people of Donegal, and all who ply
the seas off our coast, are hugely indebted.
Our thanks go to Mr. James White, proprietor
of the Hyland Central Hotel, for his generous
gift of the venue.
The day will be unrepeatable and
extraordinary and everyone should at some
point during the seven hours of reading, come
and support Donegal writers and the RNLI.
The Independent
Republic of
Bundoran
Written and Presented by Mark Geagan
Tuesday October 2
Bundoran Community Library
Station Road Bundoran
8.00pm FREE
The Independent Republic of Bundoran is the title
of an illustrated talk, researched and presented
by local historian, author and musician Marc
Geagan. The format follows the ‘animated
history’ series of recent local events with
actors playing historical roles from Bundoran’s
colourful past. Live music and refreshments will
be provided.
A native of the town and a lecturer at the North
West Regional College in Derry, Marc Geagan
has a great interest in the social history of
Bundoran. His recent publication, Dancing by
The Sea ( Stracomer Press 2011), tells the story
of Bundoran from earliest pagan and Christian
times to its modern day incarnation as a seaside
and surfing resort of national and international
renown. The publication was the inspiration for
a very successful series of historical walking
tours of Bundoran – A Tale of Two Towns – over
the summer months.
Exhibition
Brendan Alexander
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Donegal Skies
October 1-7
Open Monday – Friday
10.00am –5.00pm and at Show Times
where visitors can receive advance news and
updates on imminent astrological events as
well as view samples of Brendan Alexander’s
remarkable astrophotographic works.
Foyer Gallery
The Abbey Arts Centre Ballyshannon
Opening Night
Donegal Skies will be Officially Opened on
Saturday, September 29 at 7.30pm.
All Welcome.
Killygordon-based astrophotographer
Brendan Alexander was the centre of media
and internet attention earlier this year when
his photographs of the Northern Lights
over Donegal were widely published, both in
Ireland and internationally.
With an interest in astronomy since
childhood, he has taken advantage of
Donegal’s dark skies to record on film many
of the spectacular events in the skies above
the county in recent years. His profile in
astronomy and astrophotography has grown
with his work gaining exposure on RTE,
BBC and The Irish Times, to name but a
few. Several of these night sky shots have
been used on the BBC flagship astronomy
programme, The Sky at Night, presented by Sir
Patrick Moore, and a number have been
shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer
of the Year Award. One image will also
be published shortly in the Astronomy
Photographer of the Year publication.
Brendan has also had two of his images
selected for NASA’s prestigious Astronomy
Picture of the Day.
He set up and manages the increasingly
popular website www.donegalskies.com
Nature put on one of its most awe-inspiring
shows over north Donegal with a rare glimpse
of The Aurora Borealis, better known as
the Northern Lights. Astronomer Brendan
Alexander captured his photograph during a
parting of the clouds when the rain stayed away
just long enough to give him a chance to take the
images. The photograph was taken from Fanad
Head, between 8.30pm and 9.00pm on Sunday.
The Irish Times ( 23.1.12)
A Beginners Guide to
Shooting The Stars
Tuesday October 2
8.30pm FREE
A must for all with an interest in photography,
astronomy or both as Brendan Alexander
delivers a presentation on his work and the
techniques he uses to capture his remarkable
images of the night skies over Donegal.
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Meitheal
Ealaíne
Margaret Cunningham
Deborah Stockdale
Ana Stromberg Rik Walton
Michael Doherty
SATHARN- DOMHNACH
29ú Meán Fómhar – 7ú Deireadh
Fómhar
Saturday - SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 29 - October 7
Open Daily 1.00pm – 6.00pm Saor in
Aisce / FREE. Eolas ar 087.2718967
The Gallery Main Street Cashel
Glencolmcille
Exhibition Opening Night
Friday September 28
8.00pm
Fáilte roimh Cách.
Grúpa cúigear ealaíontóir is íad Meitheal
Ealaíne, atáid ag cur futhu thart fá cheanntar
Ghleann Choilm Cille, is a thógann
ionspioráid ón nádúr is ón gcomhshaol
drámatúil fán dtaobh sin tíre.
Bíonn Margaret Cunningham agus Deborah
J. Stockdale ag plé le fíodóireacht, cuilteanna
is le táipéisí, is griangrafadóir é Rik Walton
agus is péintéirí iad Ana Stromberg agus
Michael Doherty a oibríonn le ollaí, acrilicí,
uiscedathanna is pinn luaidhe.
Meitheal Ealaíne Ghleann Cholm Cille hosts
its annual Group Art Exhibition as part of the
Donegal Bay and Bluestacks Festival. Ana
Stromberg shows her new oil and watercolour
paintings of landscapes and still lives. Originally
from Sweden, Ana has called Glencolmcille
home for over 20 years. Rik Walton,
photographer of musicians and landscapes,
shows some of his prize winning photographs as
well as new landscape photography. Margaret
Cunningham, who is a tapestry weaver, exhibits
some beautiful new tapestries and felted pieces
while Michael Doherty, architect and artist,
shows his pen and ink drawings as well as some
new acrylic paintings. Group founder-member,
Deborah Stockdale, shows a new series of art
quilts, featuring discharge dying and repainting,
embroidery and quilting.
Man – made Images Photo-gallery presents
Animals
By Wolf Ademeit
Man-made Images Photo-gallery
Mountcharles
www.man-madeimages.eu
OPEN TUESDAY – SATURDAY
12.00 NOON – 6.00PM
Man-made Images, the first and only
commercial gallery in Ireland solely dedicated
to the art of modern photography, is delighted to
present its latest collection of prints by the
magnificent German based photographer, Wolf Ademeit.
In general, animal photographers focus their work on
presenting animals in their natural habitat. Photographing
animals in captivity as an art form is done by a handful of
artists, something photographer Wolf Ademeit sees as a
missed opportunity. He believes zoo animals make excellent
subjects for aesthetical photography and so in his exhibition
ANIMALS, these zoo animals are taken into the realm of art,
far beyond documentary photography.
In contrast to wild life photography, zoo animals live in an
artificial and highly distracting environment, hindering the
process of artistic design. Therefore, Wolf Ademeit darkens all
picture parts which are not creatively necessary to the essence
of the picture. As with portrait photography he tries to find
the position in which the animals present themselves as an
individual – at their best.
Wolf Ademeit’s imagery is his elegy on an animal world which
is tragically disappearing with each passing day.
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Sunday
Miscellany
Kevin McAleer, Peter Sirr, Enda Wylie, Denise
Blake, Joe Woods, Malachi O’Doherty, Donegal
Camerata String Ensemble, Doimnic Mac
Ghiolla Bhríde, Fidil, Seamus McGuire and
Garry O’Briain. Hosted by Clíodhna Ní Anluain.
Sunday October 7
The Abbey Arts Centre Ballyshannon 3.00pm
FREE
Booking Essential 071 9851375
For over four decades RTÉ Radio’s Sunday
Miscellany has been at the heart of the Irish
Sunday morning. Its distinctive mix of brand
new short essays and poetry presented on air
by their authors and interspersed with music,
makes hugely welcome return visit to The
Abbey Centre where two editions of the iconic
radio programme will be recorded for future
broadcast.
Kevin McAleer, from near
Omagh, Co. Tyrone, is one
of the founding fathers of
modern standup, his carefully
polished scripts often likened
to Beckett and Flann O’Brien.
Last summer a one-off revival of his cult
classic slide show raised the roof off the Royal
Festival Hall in London, prompting comedy
review Chortle UK to remark ‘most of his
set was spent waiting for people to finish
laughing.’ His most recent one-man show,
Chalk and Cheese, was universally hailed as
his best yet.
Probably the best piece of standup I have ever
seen. Stewart Lee
Laughter barely the safe side of hysteria.
Irish Times
Joseph Woods is a
poet and Director of
Poetry Ireland. He won
the Patrick Kavanagh
Award for his first
collection Sailing to
Hokkaido. Last year
Dedalus Press published his third collection,
Ocean Letters. Enda Wyley was born in Dublin. Her four
collections with Dedalus Press are, Eating
Baby Jesus, Socrates in the Garden, Poems
for Breakfast and the recent, To Wake To
This. Her work has been widely broadcast
and anthologised including in The Harvard
Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry (2010) and
The Wake Forest Book of Irish Womens’
Poetry (2011).
Denise Blake’s second poetry collection,
How to Spin Without Getting Dizzy is published
by Summer Palace Press. She is a regular
contributor to Sunday Miscellany and has
participated in live shows in Omagh, Clifden
and Ballyshannon. Her work is included in five
Sunday Miscellany anthologies. She lives in
Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Peter Sirr lives in Dublin where he works as
a freelance writer and translator. His most
recent collection of poems, The Thing Is, was
published by Gallery Press in 2009, for which
he was last year awarded the Michael Hartnett
Prize. The Gallery Press has also published
Bring Everything (2000), Selected Poems and
Nonetheless (both 2004). He is a member of
Aosdána.
Malachi O’Doherty was born in Muff, Co.
Donegal and grew up in Belfast. He is the
author of six published books including I Was
Teenage Catholic and Under His Roof, a
collection of vignettes about his father,
Barney. His most recent book, On My Own Two
Wheels, describes the adventure of cycling
in Ireland. Malachi is a freelance journalist
and broadcaster and is currently Writer in
Residence at Queen’s University Belfast.
He has written and performed hundreds of
radio talks for BBC Radio Ulster and Radio
4, mostly through a long running weekly slot
on Talkback. He also writes regularly for the
Belfast Telegraph
Seamus McGuire is
widely regarded as one of
Ireland’s most versatile
and accomplished fiddle
players. He grew up in
Sligo in a world where
music was nurtured, where
playing Coleman fiddle
tunes and JS Bach in the same breath seemed
quite natural.
His ability to produce the warmest of classical
tones alongside a mastery of traditional Irish
fiddle led to a meeting of these musical worlds
in the West Ocean String Quartet, formed by
Séamus with Neil Martin in 1999. He was also
a founder member of the acclaimed traditional
group, Buttons and Bows with his brother
Manus, Jackie Daly and Garry O’Briain. His
solo recording The Wishing Tree is regarded
as a career highlight while The Missing Reel,
his duet album with flute-player John Lee, is
essential to any traditional music collection
and a source of almost-forgotten Leitrim
music for fiddle and flute.
Seamus has lived and worked in Letterkenny,
Co. Donegal for many years. The West Ocean
String Quartet’s fourth album, An Indigo Sky,
will be released early in 2013.
Garry O’Briain is a virtuoso mandocello player
living near Kinvara. He has made a number of
acclaimed recordings of the music of Turlough
O’Carolan, most notably Fís Carolan’s Dream
on Claddagh Records. As well as being a
founder member of Buttons and Bows with
the McGuire Brothers and Jackie Daly, he
has recorded with many of the greats of Irish
traditional music including Máirtín O’Connor,
Len Graham, Finbar Furey and Pádraigín Ní
Uallacháin.
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Led by Spanish cellist Victor Yélamo the
Donegal Camerata String Ensemble is an
ensemble of locally-based, professional
string players including Orsolya SzabóYélamo ( violin ), Lucy Spacirova ( viola),
Michael McGinty ( double bass ) and Claire
Cunningham (violin). Their Sundays in
Conwal concert series at Conwal Parish
Church, Letterkenny has been a tremendous
success for them this year and they have also
performed as part of the Earagail Arts Festival
and the Patrick McGill Summer School.
Fidil are a trio of
virtuoso young
musicians whose
new explorations in
the traditional fiddle
music of Donegal have
garnered them huge
acclaim both at home and internationally. The
trio was founded by Ciarán Ó Maonaigh from
Gaoth Dobhair and Aidan O’Donnell from
Dunkineely - both recent recipients of TG4’s
Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award
– when they invited Damien McGeehan from
Ardara to join them in late 2008. Both of their
recordings to-date, Three and The Old Wheel
of Fortune, were accorded Album of The Week
status by The Irish Times
Doimnic Mac Ghiolla
Bhríde, an acclaimed
sean-nós singer
and musician from
Gaoth Dobhair, has
been immersed in
the culture of the
area from a young
age. He has released four highly commended
collections of work to-date, including the
solo CD, Saol na Suáilce as well as Siansaí
with the sean-nós choir he directs, Cór
Thaobh a Leithead, in addition to Guaillimh a’
Chéile with Scottish sean-nós singer Griogair
Labhruidh and Smúidghealach, a collection of
arrangements for string quintet, clarinet and
uilleann pipes. In 2009 he won the prestigious
Corn Uí Riada, the highest accolade in Ireland
for sean-nós singers.
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Childrens Events Imeachtaí do Pháistí
Childrens Events
Imeachtaí do Pháistí
An Grianán Theatre presents
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A Bag of Queens
Written and Performed by Little John Nee
Monday – Friday October 1-5
Touring Primary Schools in South Donegal
A Bag of Queens is a new show by Little
John Nee. It’s part of a new series of shows
featuring the character Sparkplug Callaghan a musical odyssey that races along with Little
John’s trademark comic storytelling style,
exploring themes of ‘random acts of kindness’,
responsibility, loneliness, greed and creative
expression, in a gentle and fun way.
A favour for a friend leads Sparkplug to an
old grocery and hardware shop at a country
crossroads. Inside he discovers a lost treasure
of consumer items that now assume a very
different meaning and value. When he visits
the elderly shop owner in a retirement home,
she asks him to bring a bag of home grown
British Queens potatoes to a fond friend in
the big city of London and a brand new
adventure begins.
The show is about human relationships and it
gives children an appreciation and connection
with the lives of older people as well as
offering a view of being a fish out of water
and what it is like to be different in a new
community.
These performances are part of a project that
is part-financed by the European Union’s
European Regional Development Fund
through the EU Programme for Peace and
Reconciliation, managed for the Special
EU Programmes Body by Donegal County
Council.
Little John Nee is a much loved and hugely
experienced writer, performer and musician.
His theatre shows – The Derry Boat, Rural
Electric and The Mental among many others –
have been performed all over Ireland, the UK
and in the US. He performed his Sparkplug
show at the recent Dublin Fringe Festival and,
earlier in September, enjoyed a very successful
four night run with his Mother’s Arms show at
The Town Hall Theatre in Galway
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Whispering
Waves
Written and Performed by
Joe Brennan
Tuesday October 2
11.00am & 1.00pm
Wednesday October 3
Touring Primary Schools
South Donegal
‘Listen! Can you hear it?
Listen carefully.
That’s the sound of the
waves whispering…..’
With this greeting the old
fisherman opens up a treasure
trove of stories whispered on the
waves. Stories of silkie seals,
mysterious waves, ghost ships
and creatures of the deep are
revealed. But what secret is
being held back?
Whispering Waves premiered
at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in
2010 and this will be it’s first
performance in Donegal.
It brings together Joe Brennan’s
many years of experience of
enthralling audiences with
magical stories, at home and
abroad, with his theatre making
skills, to create a show that will
delight any audience.
Joe Brennan returns to Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks
Festival following the huge success of his early years
theatre show Star Boy at last year’s Festival. It has been a
busy year for him with major trips to Belgium and to the
Kennedy Centre in Washington, where he will return later
this year to perform Star Boy. He is currently compiling a
collection of Donegal folktales which will be published in
March 2013.
Prepare to be enchanted. Joe Brennan has a fund of stories
that charm, excite and stretch credulity.
Donegal News
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Branar Drámaíochta
Fanzini Brothers
Clann Lir
Professor Plunger
The Children of Lir
Friday October 5
Methodist Hall Ardara
11.00am & 1.00pm
Primary School Groups /
Do Ghrúpaí Pháistí Bunscoile
A father’s
love for his
children is at
the heart of
this beautiful
re-telling of
the ancient
Irish tale of
Clann Lir.
In this vivid,
bi-lingual
production by
Galway-based Branar Drámaíochta,
the focus is on the fairytale elements of
the story – a father’s search for his
children, a magical transformation, three
chances to break a spell, and much more.
Told with puppetry, vivid imagery and
enchanting, newly – composed traditional
music, the show is best enjoyed by
Children aged from 6 –10yrs.
Tá grá athar dá pháistí ag croílár na
hathinsinte seo den seanscéal cliútach
Calnn Lir. San cur i láthair suntasach, dhá
theangach seo, leagtar béim ar n heilimintí
síscéalacha de – tóraíocht Lir ar a pháistí,
claochlú draíochta, trí seans chun geis a
bhriseadh, agus go leor leor eile. Insítear
an scéal trí puipéadóireacht, le íomhánna
fuinniúla is ceol traidisiúnta úr-chumtha.
Bainfidh páistí idir 6-10 mbliana d’aois
mór thaitnimh as an seó seo.
Saturday October 6
3.00pm €5 Children. Adults FREE.
Group Rate 4 Children €15.00 / + Each
Additional Child €3
Deardaoin - Aoine
4ú-5ú Deireadh Fómhair
Scoileanna Náisiúnta in Iar Dheisceart Dhún
Those fabulous Fanzinis, who brought their
daredeviling extravangazas Canonball Circus and
Deathwish! to Donegal in recent years, make a
welcome return to the Festival with a new show
about the famous inventor, Professor Phoncible
P. Plunger, creator of among other things, the
fireproof marshmallow, non-stick adhesive and the
automatic cucumber peeler ! No home should be
without one !
Tar éis seóanna iontacha ar nós Cannonball Circus
agus Deathwish! a dhéanamh dúinn sna blianta
atá thart, tá na Fanzinis taghta thar nais go Dún
na nGall lena cur i láthair nua, Professor Plunger.
Seó atá ann fá dtaobh de cheapadóir cliútach a
cheapann uirlisí úra atá iontach áisiúl timpeall
an tí, ar nós uirlis a bhaineann an craiceann de
cúcamair agus leácháin atá slán ar tine !
Fad a Mhaireann, 35 nóiméid. Oiriúnach do Pháistí Uilig.
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Booking Bookáil
Booking Bookáil
For all Festival events, tickets will be available for purchase at the venue on the evening
of the performance. To avoid disappointment, however, please plan to arrive at the venue
at least 20 minutes before the advertised showtime. Should you wish, you may also book
certain performances in advance, at the following venues …
Booking at THE ABBEY ARTS CENTRE, Ballyshannon. 071 9851375
Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls at Abbey Centre, Foresters Hall and Glenties Community
Centre. Anna Katherine Kelly on Festival Opening Night.
Whispering Waves, Brendan Alexander Talk, Professor Plunger and Sunday Miscellany.
Booking at THE BALOR THEATRE, Ballybofey. 074 9131840
Oleanna, David Scott Acting Workshop, Scullion & The Henry Girls, Happy Birthday & Take
Me Out, Die Fledermaus.
For General Information on The Festival, please contact
The Festival Office Tel. 074 9121968.
Useful Contacts
Fáilte Ireland Tourist Office Donegal Town
074 9721148
071 9829665
Marlboro House Bundoran
071 9841471
Man-made Images Gallery Mountcharles
074 9735928
Dicey Reilly’s Ballyshannon
071 9851371
McIntyre’s Bar Dunkineely
074 9737102
071 9841397
Oideas Gael Gleann Choilm Cille
074 9730248
Án Clachán Glencolmcille Folk Village
074 9730017
Áislann Chill Chartha
074 9738376
Tí Linn Cultural Centre, Teelin.
074 9739077
Ballyshannon Branch Library
071 9858270
Donegal Branch Library
074 9725329
Ballybofey Community Library
074 9175384
Donegal Craft Village Donegal Town
074 9722225 / 9722015
Lakeside Centre Caravan Camper Park Ballyshannon
071 9852822
The Blue Stack Centre Drimarone, Letterbarrow
074 9735564 *
Sand House Hotel Rosnowlagh
077 9851777
Hyland Central Hotel Donegal Town
074 9721027
The Breesy Centre Cashelard, Ballyshannon.
071 9858188 *
The Highlands Hotel Glenties
074 9551111
Dorrians Imperial Hotel Ballyshannon
071 9851147
*Hostel Accomodation.
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Doocharry
Fintown
Brockagh/Cloghan
Mass
Narin
Stranorlar
Glenties
Kilclooney
Blue Stack
Mountains
Ardara
Gleann Choilm Cille
Slieve
League
Castlefinn
Killygordon
Lough
Eske
Frosses
Mallin
Beg
Ballybofey
Killybegs
Carrick
Kilcar
Bruckless
Donegal
Mountcharles
Laghey
Dunkineely
Murvagh
Ballintra
Pettigo
Venues
Ballyshannon
Bundoran
FÉILE NA NÓG / SHOWS FOR SCHOOLS
TAISPEÁNTAISÍ / EXHIBITIONS
BRENDAN ALEXANDER Donegal Skies
Tel. 071 9851375
Monday – Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm
FREE To October 7
P. 20
MEITHEAL EALAÍNE
Margaret Cunningham Ana Stromberg
Deborah J. StockdaleRik Wlaton
Tom McLaughlin Michael Doherty
An Gailearaí Cashel Gleann Choilm Cille
Tel. 087.2718967
Monday – Sunday 1.00pm – 6.00pm
FREE To October 7.
P.19
WOLF ADEMEIT Animals
Man-made Images Photographic Gallery
Mountcharles
Tuesday – Saturday 12.00pm – 6.00pm FREE
P. 21
A Bag of Queens Little John Nee Methodist Hall Ardara
Tuesday October 6 11.00am & 1.00pm
Eolas 074 9121968
Touring Primary Schools South Donegal
Monday, Wednesday - Friday October 1, 3 – 5.
Eolas 074 9121968
Whispering Waves Joe Brennan Abbey Arts Centre Ballyshannon
Tuesday October 3 11am & 1.00.pm
Booking 071 9851375
FIDDLE CASE EXHIBITION @
Donegal Fidders Gathering P. 15
The Warehouse Main Street Glenties
Friday 11.00am –6.00pm Saturday 11.00am – 7.00pm
Sunday 12.00noon – 6.00pm
P. 25
P. 26
Touring Primary Schools South Donegal
Wednesday October 3 Eolas 074 9121968
Clann Lir Branar Drámaíochta Methodist Hall Ard a’Ratha
De hAoine, 5ú Deireadh Fómhair
11am & 1.OOpm Eolas 074 9121968
P. 27
Professor Plunger Fanzini Brothers
Deardaoin - Aoine, 4ú - 5ú Deireadh Fómhair
Ar Fáil do Scoileanna Náisiúnta Gaeltachta
Eolas 074 9121968
P. 27
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Sponsors of RTE Radio 1 Sunday Miscellany
The Abbey Arts Centre
Ballyshannon
Sunday October 7 3.00pm
Booking 071 9851375
The Sandhouse Hotel & Marine Spa at Rossnowlagh Beach
Rossnowlagh
Co. Donegal
Ireland
Tel: 071 985 1777
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Dialann Lae Day by Day
EVENTS
VENUE
TIME
Page
Oscailt Meitheal Ealaíne
Gleann Choilm Cille
08.00pm
20
Oleanna
08.30pm
3
Reading for Rescue
Hyland Central Donegal Town
10.00am
18
David Scott Acting Workshop
10.00pm
4
Opening ‘Donegal Skies’
Abbey Arts Centre B’shannon
07.30pm
19
Anna Katherine Kelly
Abbey Arts Centre B’shannon
08.00pm
4
Scullion, The Henry Girls
08.30pm
10
Impact Theatre Take Me Out
01.00pm
5
The Odd Couple
John Bosco Centre Donegal Town
08.30pm
6
Republic of Bundoran
08.00pm
18
The Odd Couple
08.30pm
6
Brendan Alexander Talk
Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon
08.30pm
19
The Odd Couple
08.30pm
6
Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls
08.30pm
7
Session Americana
McIntyre’s Dunkineely
08.30pm
12
The Wild Herrings
10.00pm
11
Die Fledermaus NW Opera
Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey
08.00pm
14
Lyrics and Lilt
Village Tavern Mountcharles
08.30pm
13
Donegal Fiddlers Gathering
Highlands Hotel Glenties (informal)
09.00pm
15
Altered States
09.00pm
13
Friday Jazz Club
10.30pm
13
Remembering Simon Doherty
Highlands Hotel Glenties
12.30pm
15
Fanzinis ‘Professor Plunger’
03.00pm
27
Imramh Bran Carnival Parade
Ballyshannon
07.30pm
8
Die Fledermaus NW Opera
Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey
08.00pm
14
Foresters Hall Killybegs
08.30pm
7
Donegal Fiddlers Gala Concert
Highlands Hotel Glenties
09.00pm
15
The Lace
Dicey Reilly’s Ballyshannon
09.30pm
16
Donegal Fiddlers Gathering
Highlands Hotel Glenties ( informal )
02.00pm
15
RTE Sunday Miscellany
03.00pm
22
Community Centre Glenties
08.30pm
7
Friday September 28
Saturday SEPTEMBER 29
monday october 1
Tuesday october 2
Wednesday october 3
Thursday october 4
Friday october 5
Saturday October 6
Sunday October 7
Audrey McGloin, Michael Daly Abbey Arts
Centre, Ballyshannon. Conor Malone,
Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey. Paul Diver,
Sand House Hotel, Rosnowlagh. James
White, Hyland Central Hotel, Donegal
Town. Johnny Boyle, Highlands Hotel,
Glenties. Mary Thompson, Margaret
Sweeney, Glenties Community Centre.
Rev. John Purdy, Dunkineely. Frank
Galagher, Foresters Hall, Killybegs.
Brendan O’Reilly, Dicey Reilly’s,
Ballyshannon. Eamonn Bonner, C. Bonner
& Sons, Ardara.
Maura Logue, Carnival Director. Mandy
Blinco and Mark Hill, LUXe. Clíodhna Ní
Anluain, RTE Radio 1. Dr. Marie Bourke,
National Gallery of Ireland. Denise
Blake. Emer Keon, Erne Enterprise
Development Company Ltd. Patricia
McBride, An Grianán Theatre. Kate and
Joan Newmann, Summer Palace Press.
Kieran Quinn, Andrew McNulty Balor Rep
Theatre Company. Christian Carbin and
Art Kavanagh, Donegal Drama Circle. Idan
Meir, Kate Brown, Impact Forum Theatre.
Brendan Alexander. Caoimhín MacAoidh,
Rab Cherry, Cairdeas na bhFidléirí.
Conal Shovlin, Kate Morgan, Hazel
Barrett, Downstrands FRC, Kilclooney.
Aidan O’Donnell, Coiste Cultúrtha Dhún
Cheann Fhaola. Patsy O’Kane. The Wild
Herrings. Ann Jennings and Gerard
Doherty, NorthWest Opera. Little John
Nee. Joe Brennan. Marc Geagan. Marcel
Otten, Man-made Images, Mountcharles.
Deborah J. Stockdale. Shaun Hannigan,
Jeremy Howard, Regional Cultural Centre,
Letterkenny.
Ballyshannon Town Council
Cover : Little John Nee in A Bag of Queens.
Photo Paul McGuckin.
FUNDERS & PARTNERS
Ballyshannon Town Council
design: onthedotmultimedia.com
BA MHAITH LINN BUÍOCHAS A GHABHÁIL CHUIG

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