Arts & Culture

THE 17th annual Clarecastle Céilí at the Crossroads Festival takes place this week and this year’s expanded programme offers a rousing concert launching the festival and a fireworks display closing the festivities, with plenty of music in between.

A PREVIEW of a new one-man theatrical piece entitled The Mid-Knight Cowboy will be held in Kilkee this Saturday, before it heads to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

UP to 16 US dancers and their families, as well as an additional 10 to 15 dancers from Ireland, will spend the next week in Mountshannon immersed in Irish dance, music and culture as part of a new dance camp.

Monsters UniversityDIRECTED BY: Dan ScanlonVOICES: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Helen MirrenCERT: G The once-mighty Pixar has been going through a bit of a slump. Brave was a popular, Oscar-winning hit, but it was well below the studio’s high standard and Cars 2 was really little more than a cynical merchandising commercial. The former kings of animation were badly in need of a killer comeback.

The Pepsi Challenge was rigged.

ANGELA’S Ashes: A Musical comes to Limerick’s Lime Tree Theatre this month for a four-night run.

MUSICIAN Siomha Brock has organised a fundraising night of music and drama next weekend “to give something back” for the support she received from the Clare Youth Service in the beginning of her own musical journey.