AUGUST 2006 LIMERICK

Live Music Listings

Wednesday 09 August 2006
Clive Barnes and Jeffrey Foucault 9.00pm Dolan's Warehouse

Friday 11 August 2006
The Furey Brothers and Davey Arthur 8.00pm Dolan's Warehouse
Hybrasil (Upstairs) €7 8.00pm Dolan's Warehouse

Saturday 12 August 2006
Australian Pearl Jam 8.00pm Dolan's Warehouse

Tuesday 15 August 2006
Tim Rogers TNT + Tex Perkins €14 8.00pm Dolan's Warehouse

Wednesday 16th August
Jane O'Brien and Band 8pm. Dolans Pub, Limerick City
LIMERICK JAZZ presents the 10-piece Jazz Funk Collective under saxophonist Duncan Eagles (UK). Doors 8.30pm music 9.00pm. Admission at door €12/8 (students). (Upstairs) Dolans Warehouse.

Thursday 17 August 2006
The Blizzards 8.00pm Dolan's Warehouse
Arlo Guthrie €30 8.00pm Dolan's Warehouse

Thursday 24 August 2006
Kiernan McMullan 8.00pm Dolan's Warehouse

Sunday 27 August 2006
Redjetson Envelope 8.00pm Boat Club, Limerick

Thursday 31 August 2006
The Immediate 8.00pm Upstairs Dolan's Warehouse

GALLERIES

End August
Into Autumn
A collection of new work by members of the Charleville Society of Artists featuring Maura Ryan, Graham James, Geraldine Dennehy, Marie Loftus, Mary O'Connor, Tim O'Sullivan and Joe Greaney will run for the month of August. All are welcome.
TICKETS:
BOOKING/INFO: Tel 063 98727. Web: www.friarsgate.ie. Email: friarsgate@eircom.net.
VENUE: Friars Gate Theatre, Kilmallock, Co, Limerick.

Ongoing
Kilmallock Museum and History Trail
Collection of implements from industrial, farming, shop and home life in the 19th and 20th century.
TICKETS:
BOOKING/INFO:
VENUE: Kilmallock Museum and History Trail, Limerick.

Foynes Flying Boats Museum
The museum recalls the 1930's with a wide range of exhibits and graphic illustrations.
TICKETS Adult £3.00 Child £1.50
BOOKING/INFO: Mar - Oct Mon - Sun 10.00 - 6.00
VENUE: Foynes + 353 69 65416

Kilmallock Museum & History Trail
This museum holds a collection of implements from industrial, farming, shop and home life in the 19th and 20th century.
TICKETS
BOOKING/INFO: + 353 63-91300
VENUE: Kilmallock, Co. Limerick.

THEATRE & OPERA

Wednesday 16th August @ 8pm
Mozart’s Bastien

Summer Music on the Shannon presents Mozart’s Bastien, as part of their Youth Opera Programme. Summer Music on the Shannon return to Friars’ Gate on Wednesday 16th August @ 8pm with Benjamin Britten’s opera for young people The Little Sweep. As a composer of music for young people, Britten was without equal. The Little Sweep, was premièred at the second Aldeburgh Festival. The first part consists of a play during which the children and adults create an opera, and the second part, The Little Sweep, tells the story of Sammy, a little 19th century chimney sweep, who gets stuck in a chimney and is eventually rescued by other children. The principal characters in The Little Sweep are as follows Black Bob (adult - Bass), Clem, his son (tenor), Sam, the sweep boy, age 8 (treble), Miss Baggott, the housekeeper (contralto), Juliet Brook, (soprano), Gay Brook, age,13 (treble), Sophie Brook, age 10 (Soprano), Rowan, the nursery - maid (soprano), Jonny Crome, age 15 (treble), Hughie Crome, age 8 (treble), Tina Crome, age 8 (soprano), Tom, the coachman (Bass), Alfred, the Gardener (Tenor).

TICKETS: €10/€5
BOOKING/INFO: Tel 063 98727. Web: www.friarsgate.ie. Email: friarsgate@eircom.net.
VENUE: Friars Gate Theatre, Kilmallock, Co, Limerick.

Thursday 17th August @ 8pm
Mary McEvoy stars in Moonlight Music and Waiting by Jennifer Johnston.

On Thursday 17th August, theatre lovers can look forward to Quiet Lives, two short plays from Jennifer Johnston, one of Ireland’s best loved writers. The evening starring one of Ireland leading actresses, Mary McEvoy features Moonlight and Music the story of Rosie, an English teacher, has just been “let go”. In this bitterly funny one-act play, she drinks whiskey, talks and dances, and gradually discloses the sadness of a past that has created the pain in her life. In Waiting, Eithne, originally from Glasthule, now living in London, is in a hospital waiting room, awaiting news of her husband. She talks about her life before and after her marriage, and reveals her secrets, both shocking and funny!

TICKETS: €12/10
BOOKING/INFO: Tel 063 98727. Web: www.friarsgate.ie. Email: friarsgate@eircom.net.
VENUE: Friars Gate Theatre, Kilmallock, Co, Limerick.

DANCE

New course begins 25th July

Limerick Tango
Argentine Tango with an Argentine teacher.

Beginners 7.15pm
Improvers 8.30pm

Free Milonga 9.30-10.30

TICKETS: 6 classes €60 Single class €12.50.
BOOKING/INFO: www.limericktango.com
VENUE: Limerick Boatclub,

Monday - Wednesday
SHALL WE DANCE

Limerick Dance Classes Monday nights in Pery's Hotel Glentworth Street. 7p.m.
Ballroom, Latin American, Jive & Swing Classes.
See dates on: www.shallwedance.ie
Mondays Beginners Latin @ 7p.m. Intermediate Ballroom @ 8p.m. & Latin @ 9p.m
Tuesday Beginners Singles Ballroom @ 7p.m. Beginners Couples Ballroom @ 8p.m. Intermediate Ballroom @ 9p.m.
Wednesday's Beginners Jive & Swing @ 7p.m. Beginners Couples Ballroom @ 8p.m.

TICKETS:
BOOKING/INFO: Bridget Harte A.I.B.B.D on 086-3811065
VENUE: Pery's Hotel Glentworth Street

Every Thursday
Salsa!
Salsa! Classes from 9 till 10 then salsa party till late.

TICKETS:
BOOKING/INFO: T: 00353(0)61411177 F: 00353(0)61217130 E: joe@trinityrooms.ie.
VENUE: Trinity Rooms, The Granary, Limerick.

Limerick School of Ballet
Limerick
Co. Limerick

Mc Inerney Cronin SchooL
Limerick
Co. Limerick

OTHER STUFF

Wednesday 16th August @ 8pm
Mozart’s Bastien

Summer Music on the Shannon presents Mozart’s Bastien, as part of their Youth Opera Programme. Summer Music on the Shannon return to Friars’ Gate on Wednesday 16th August @ 8pm with Benjamin Britten’s opera for young people The Little Sweep. As a composer of music for young people, Britten was without equal. The Little Sweep, was premièred at the second Aldeburgh Festival. The first part consists of a play during which the children and adults create an opera, and the second part, The Little Sweep, tells the story of Sammy, a little 19th century chimney sweep, who gets stuck in a chimney and is eventually rescued by other children. The principal characters in The Little Sweep are as follows Black Bob (adult - Bass), Clem, his son (tenor), Sam, the sweep boy, age 8 (treble), Miss Baggott, the housekeeper (contralto), Juliet Brook, (soprano), Gay Brook, age,13 (treble), Sophie Brook, age 10 (Soprano), Rowan, the nursery - maid (soprano), Jonny Crome, age 15 (treble), Hughie Crome, age 8 (treble), Tina Crome, age 8 (soprano), Tom, the coachman (Bass), Alfred, the Gardener (Tenor).

TICKETS: €10/€5
BOOKING/INFO: Tel 063 98727. Web: www.friarsgate.ie. Email: friarsgate@eircom.net.
VENUE: Friars Gate Theatre, Kilmallock, Co, Limerick.

Friday 25th August @ 8.30pm
The Celtic Tenors

As part of the forthcoming Kilmallock Medieval Festival, The Celtic Tenors will perform at the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Kilmallock on Friday 25th August @ 8.30pm. Tickets cost €25 and will be available from Friars’ Gate Theatre. The Celtic Tenors were signed on the spot to an international record deal, following an impromptu audition in London in 2000. Their debut album went immediately to No 2 in the UK classical charts and to No 1 in Ireland and Germany - where it is two times platinum, as well as achieving a top ten Billboard spot in the US. The Tenors have appeared on numerous compilation albums, including the Official Rugby World Cup Album 2003, The Official Classical Album for the Olympic Games 2004, and the huge selling album by Liam Lawton, “Another World”. Total album sales worldwide, including compilations, are now at over one million, making them the biggest Classical Crossover artists ever to come out of Ireland. “They are re-inventing the whole Tenor idiom,” says Phil Coulter who wrote the unforgettable piece entitled “Remember Me, Recuérdame” for the trio after hearing them in concert.

TICKETS:
BOOKING/INFO: Tel 063 98727. Web: www.friarsgate.ie. Email: friarsgate@eircom.net.
VENUE: Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Kilmallock.

Every Wednesday until end 2006
The White House Poetry Revival
Open-mic session followed by a guest published poet. Time: 9.00pm

TICKETS:
BOOKING/INFO: Phone: +353 61 412377
VENUE: White House, 52 O'Connell St., Limerick

ONGOING EVENTS
Siamsa Tire
The National Folk Theatre of Ireland.

Our summer season offers four rare and exciting shows. Presented through the medium of theatre, using traditional song, dance and mime/movement these Siamsa Tíre performances continue to receive standing ovations both from home and worldwide audiences, captivated perhaps by the appeal of a way of life from times past and by the intriguing Celtic resonances that are so much part of Irish heritage and traditions.

TICKETS:
BOOKING/INFO: www.siamsatire.com/
VENUE: Siamsa Tíre Theatre, Town Park, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland.