March 2004 Kilkenny

Live Music Listings

Wednesday 3
Gregg Trooper, 9pm @ Cleere’s.
Open Mic, Andrew Ryans.
Trad Night, Baileys Bar.

Thursday 4
Loudest Whisper, 9pm @ Paris Texas.
Trad Night, Andrew Ryans.
The Canemakers, 9pm @ Langtons.

Friday 5
The Pernice Brothers + The Belles, 9pm @ Cleere’s.
Joe Dolan, 9pm @ Langtons.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus, 9pm @ Paris Texas.
Jorum, 10pm @ Kytelers.
Live Music, Baileys Bar.

Saturday 6
Live Band, Maggies.

Sunday 7
Royal Flush, 9pm @ Paris Texas.
The Barflys, 9.30pm @ The Pumphouse.
Live Music, Baileys Bar.

Wednesday 10
Open Mic, Andrew Ryans.
Trad Night, Baileys Bar.

Thursday 11
Resin, 9pm @ Langtons.
Trad Night, Andrew Ryans.
The Canemakers, 9pm @ Langtons.

Friday 12
The Complete Stone Roses, 8pm @ The Venue.
Shanragh, 10pm @ Kytelers.
Live Music, Baileys Bar.

Saturday 13
Live Band, Maggies.

Sunday 14
Adam Synder + Barry McCormick, 9pm @ Cleere’s.
Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, 8pm @ Langtons.
Blue Monday, 9pm @ Paris Texas.
Live Music, Baileys Bar.
The Barflys, 9.30pm @ The Pumphouse.

Wednesday 17
Trad Session with Martin Murray, 4pm @ Langtons.

Thursday 18
Trad Night, Andrew Ryans.
The Canemakers, 9pm @ Langtons.

Friday 19
Live Music, Baileys Bar.

Saturday 20
Live Band, Maggies.

Sunday 21
Rock Chix, 9pm @ Paris Texas.
The Barflys, 9.30pm @ The Pumphouse.
Live Music, Baileys Bar.

Wednesday 24
Open Mic, Andrew Ryans.
Trad Night, Baileys Bar.

Thursday 25
Trad Night, Andrew Ryans.
The Canemakers, 9pm @ Langtons.

Friday 26
5th Degree Pain, 9pm @ Langtons.
Sack the Bazouki, 10pm @ Kytelers.
Live Music, Baileys Bar.

Saturday 27
Aslan, 8pm @ The Venue.
Live Band, Maggies.

Sunday 28
Big Generator, 9pm @ Paris Texas.
The Barflys, 9.30pm @ The Pumphouse.
Live Music, Baileys Bar.

Wednesday 31
Open Mic, Andrew Ryans.
Trad Night, Baileys Bar.

VISUAL ART

to March 25
Create
The best and most beautiful in contemporary Irish furniture design. In a celebration of tradition and craftsmanship, Ireland’s top furniture makers present their stylish, elegant and timeless creations. National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard, Kilkenny. www.ccoi.ie

March
Group Show
Work by Stephen Vaughan, Cora Cummins and MIck Timmons. gallery ONE | CONTEMPORARY ART, 1 William Street.
www.galleryone.org

March 6 to April 18
Number.colour
A series of paintings that deal with number, colour and figure/frame relationships. Each piece is broken into segments and bands. The number of segments and bands is dictated by a mathematical model. The mathematical model also dictates the number of colours to be used and the colour placement. The overall shape of the work is also governed by mathematical rules. Watergate Theatre.
www.watergatekilkenny.com

March 12 to April 23
Postcard exhibition
An exciting opportunity whereby people in the community were invited to create postcards using any medium, any theme. The exhibition will be displayed in the link corridor of the County Hall. All postcards will be sold for a minimum of €2 each. The works will be sold as anonymous pieces. The money collected will go towards the launch of CHILDRENS ART DAY for Kilkenny City and County. The County Hall is open to the public Mon - Fri 9am to 1pm & 2pm to 5pm.
Kilkenny County Hall, John Street.

THEATRE & OPERA

March 8 to 13
Moll
By John B. Keane. When a presbytery gets a new housekeeper itbecomes like a country that gets a change of government, or like a family that gets a new stepmother. Moll Kettle would work for no less than a canon for, in her own words, “Tis hard to come back to the plain black and white when one is used to the purple.” 8pm, tickets: €15/12, Mon 8th & Tue 9th all seats €10. Booking on 056 7761674. Watergate Theatre. www.watergatekilkenny.com

March 15 to 20
The Castlecomer Jukebox
By Jimmy Murphy. The Castlecomer Jukebox are a band, one of Irelands greatest with links back to the showband era, now on their last legs – reduced to a summer stint at a midlands hotel. This however is going to be no ordinary summer – the President of the United States of America is coming to stay and the Castlecomer Jukebox are top of the bill. The band can relive some of their former glory and find a new lease of life with the cameras of the world looking on. There is of course a price to pay – a price that questions their loyalty and their very reasons for being a band – for playing on. Red Kettle continue their commitment to new writing and bring this hugely entertaining play to life with great drama and music featuring a first rate cast that includes Mick Lally as ‘Ginty’ and Honor Heffernan as ‘Rio’ –the band’s singer. 8pm, tickets: €15, €12.50 (conc.). Booking on 056 7761674.
Watergate Theatre.
www.watergatekilkenny.com

Comedy

March 25 to 28
Tommy Tiernan ‘Cracked’
Tommy performs with the casual ease of a natural raconteur, but the appearance belies an almost fretful perfectionism. He never writes anything down. He works ceaselessly on the style of his delivery, and he has an active interest in the mechanics of comedy in all its many manifestations. He is a craftsman. Tiernan is a dynamic, passionate, engaging performer, with a charismatic presence and a taste for finding a lively physical expression to enhance the comic impact of his act. The Stage commented: “when Tiernan is on fire, his tales seem imbued with a brand of Irish humour, insight and an eye for surreal detail of which Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett would have been proud. And no mistake”. 8pm, tickets: €22.50. Booking on 056 7761674. Watergate Theatre.
www.watergatekilkenny.com

Concerts

March 19
RTE Concert Orchestra
Kilkenny Arts Festival, in association with RTE, presents the RTE Concert Orchestra in a Kilkenny-exclusive regional concert on Friday 19th March at 8pm in St Canice’s Cathedral. In a special evening conducted by Laurent Wagner, with soloist Anne Gastinel, this will mark the first visit of the RTE Concert Orchestra to Kilkenny for 10 years. Tickets can be purchased from Kilkenny Book Shop, Dubray Books and Heartbeat City, Kilkenny, or for cash or cheque from the Festival office, tel 056 776 3663. Tickets are €20 and €8 (concessions €18 ,€15). Saint Canice’s Cathedral.

March 21
The Story of Jim Reeves
Scottish singer Al Grant is fast establishing himself as one of the biggest on theIrish and U.K. concert scene. Al played to sell-out crowds during a short 2002 Summer tour with “The Story Of Jim Reeves”. Consequently he is embarking on a nation-wide Irish tour with his hugely popular concert show. The two and a half hour concert show with Al and Isla Grant’s band feature all the great Jim Reeves songs in a show not to be missed. 8pm, tickets: €25. Booking on 056 7761674. Watergate Theatre. www.watergatekilkenny.com