Entertaining Sligo
WILLOUGHBY BROTHERS
Lissadell Church is hosting International singing sensations the Willoughby Brothers in a Christmas Concert on Friday, Dec 16th. Richie, Des, Sammy, Robbie, Johnny and Jerome, hail from Coolboy, Co. Wicklow, six brothers with just over a decade between the eldest and youngest. Their passion for singing and performing, combined with a genuine closeness, stems from a childhood filled with music and singing, a love they carried with them through the years into adulthood. Credit must be given to their father Richard, and their late mother Breda, for nurturing and encouraging these gifts from an early age and introducing them to a world of music and entertainment. They are currently making a big impression on the national and international music scene with appearances on a number of TV and Radio shows. Tickets are now available from Drumcliffe Tea House, Grange Pharmacy, Veritas Sligo or by calling 087- 1655880.
REELING IN THE YEARS SHOWBAND
The Ronan Collins Showband Show, Reeling In the Showband Years, has been a smash hit for the past six years, and it returns once again to the Hawkswell Theatre on January 1st 2017 with what could be the very best line up yet. RTE’s Ronan Collins is host and compere for the evening and will be joined by Red Hurley a living Legend of showbiz for the past 40 years, Gina from The Champions: Quite simply the biggest female vocalist of the Showband era, Ronan Collins sings his renowned tributes to the great Joe Dolan and more, Gregory from The Cadets, the great brother and sister combo from one of the oldest musical families in Ireland; Keith and Lorraine McDonald and finally one of the greatest show bands of them all The Conquerors.
The show’s exciting finale is an all cast salute to the showband era which will send you home with great memories of a wonderful and never to be repeated time in Irish popular music. Tickets are € 30/€ 15 U18’ s. For more information and tickets contact the Hawk’s Well Box Office on: 071- 9161518.
THE MACALLA SUITE
Composed by Michael Rooney, The Macalla Suite comes to The Hawk’s Well on Friday the 30th of December for its final concert of 2016 having performed for over 11,000 people over the past six months, following a sell- out Easter Tour. It is a suite of music, song and narration, commemorating Easter 1916, the history of Ireland leading up to those events and development in the 100 years since. The suite was commissioned as a central part of Ireland’s commemoration of the 1916 Rising Centenary.
It is performed by The Macalla Orchestra which includes 50 of some of Ireland’s finest classical and traditional musicians. The orchestra just recorded a CD of suite, which will be released in mid- December.
The suite was performed at the RDS on Easter Saturday at the State Event for the Relatives of 1916 and toured to the Barbican in London, in conjunction with Culture Ireland, followed by a sold out nationwide tour including the National Opera House, Drogheda, Cork City Hall, Derry, Sligo, Limerick and Monaghan. Tickets are € 22/ 11 U18’ s. For more information and tickets contact the Hawk’s Well Box Office on: 071- 9161518.
RECONSTRUCTING MEMORY
The Model is pleased to present an exhibition of newly commissioned work that marks a major turning point in the practice of Irish artist Cléa van der Grijn. It will open on Sat 17th of December. Reconstructing Memory is a multifaceted experiential and textured exploration of the societal disparities in approaches to death in Mexican and Irish cultures. Film, photography, sculpture, painting and installation are all sensitively utilised in this rich, beautiful and considered exhibition. Through her artistic practice van der Grijn seeks to unravel the rational, social and emotional circumstances that are constructed around death; and through the use of multiple mediums, she unpicks the complexities of the culture of death and reconstructed memory. At 5pm we will see Cléa van der Grijn in conversation with Catherine Marshall and at 6pm there will be the opening Reception. For more information contact the Model Box Office on: 071- 91- 41405.
CINDER AND HER FELLAS
The Calry Drama Group are proud to present their adaptation of the Classic Cinderella: ‘ Cinder and her Fellas’. Running from the 8th to the 9th of December in Calry Hall at 8.00pm nightly and 3.00pm on the Saturday. These shows sell out very quickly every year so get yours now. Tickets are on sale from regional stores or text 086- 8159705.