EntertainingSligo
KALEIDOSCOPE NIGHT AT THE MODEL
Enjoy an evening of genre-hopping through classical, traditional and contemporary music in an informal setting at The Model on February 16 th. The Dublin-based salon music series, Kaleidoscope is a pillar of musical diversity, hailed by The Irish Times as a “genre-blind bespoke mini-festival” and “one of those life-saving, spirit-lifting pioneering cultural ventures”. After a hugely successful installation in The Model for Culture Night 2016, (courtesy of the joint collaboration of the Model and Con Brio) the series returns to Sligo with a concert programme featuring a collective of Ireland’s most innovative and respected performers. Artists performing on the night include: William Butt, cello, Lance Coburn, piano, Aoife Ní Bhriain, violin/fiddle, Deirdre Moynihan, soprano/ fiddle and Lioba Petrie, cello.
TRISH CLOWES
Save the date for the intriguing British saxophonist Trish Clowes’ My Iris project at The Model, Sligo on Saturday 10 th February at 8pm. The adventurous Clowes, BASCA British Composer Award winner and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, fronts this outstanding jazz quartet featuring some of the UK’s finest musicians, whose performances have been described as the “jazz of the future” – Augsburger Allgemeine. This concert is promoted by Sligo Jazz Project, details at themodel.ie.
An agile improviser and songwriter in the mould of Wayne Shorter, Clowes has been much lauded for her melodic imagination and “magisterial” tone. Previously known for genre-bending collaborations with improvising string quartets and orchestras, her take on jazz is playful, engaging – and hugely accomplished.
Music Network tours are funded by the Arts Council and are presented in association with RTÉ lyric fm. Tickets for this concert are available from €15 and can be purchased from The Model by calling (071) 9141405 or online at themodel.ie.
WILD WORDS
If you are you aged between 14 and 18 years and have penned a poem or a short story, the Carrick-on-Shannon Wild Words Children’s Book Festival is looking to hear from you. Those selected from the submissions received will have their work professionally edited and published and are invited to attend a series of free writing masterclasses with leading authors at the festival which takes place at the end of June.
The authors leading those masterclasses this year include Dave Rudden whose Knights of the Borrowed Dark fantasy trilogy has brought him international acclaim; multi award winning poet and performer Colm Keegan and Jane Mitchell whose recent book A Dangerous Crossing traces the journey of 13 year old Ghalib Shenu as he makes a perilous journey from Syria to Turkey.
The closing date for receipt of submissions is 31st March 2018 and full terms and conditions and application forms are available on the website www. wildwords.ie.
THE DRAWER BOY
2018 is Beezneez Theatre Company’s twenty first year of touring and during that time they have undertaken thirty eight national tours. Their artistic Director, John McDwyer. has directed some wonderful productions in that time, including The Weir, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, An Ordinary Man as well as his famous Leitrim trilogy of Lovely Leitrim, Callaghan’s Place and Unforgiven. So, when he says that The Drawer Boy is probably the loveliest play he has ever worked on, it’s time to sit up and take notice.
The Drawer Boy plays in The Hawks Well Theatre on Thursday March 1st @ 8pm Box office is at 071 916 1818 or www. hawkswell.com.
The Drawer Boy promises to be an evening of laughter and tears as this funny and moving play reveals itself and this production falls easily into the unmissable category.
The Drawer Boy replays the adventures of a young actor from a Toronto theatre group who visits the rural Ontario home of two elderly bachelor farmers to “research” farm life for a new play. In doing so, he demonstrates the way in which a collective creation appropriated the lives of its subjects and changed their own interpretation of it.
John McDwyer was well aware that only top notch actors could catch the nuances in this wonderful script so the parts are played by Gerry Farrell, Michael Roper and Wayne O’Connor. Gerry Farrell is renowned for his interpretation of Cullen in McDwyer’s masterpiece An Ordinary Man and Michael Roper has worked extensively with Beezneez in The Leitrim Trilogy, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, The Weir and Tuesdays with Morrie. While Wayne O’Connor may be a Beezneez newcomer, he has worked extensively with theatre companies in Sligo.