Arts & Culture

MORE than a decade ago, Carsten Krieger and his wife, Ina, packed their belongings and hit the road. Swapping their careers as paediatric nurses in Stuttgart, Germany for a new home on the isolated westerly tip of Clare required guts and imagination. Their families and friends were not convinced that they would last long in Kilbaha.

ONE of Clare’s acclaimed artists, Ennis man Kieran Hanrahan will be playing two key roles in the 2013 Temple Bar TradFest in Dublin later this month.

THE Shannonside Winter Music Festival, organised by the Sixmilebridge Folk Club, will take place from this Thursday to January 20 with a host of musical talents descending on the village en mass over the long weekend.

DUE to popular demand, Spancilhill Drama Group will present another instalment of the hilarious play Here Lays Paddy Broderick on Saturday January 26 at Quin Hall with curtains at 8pm.

THERE aren’t many 31-year-olds in the current climate who can say they have their dream job, but that’s just the case for one Clare man who is due to celebrate his seventh year as a cameraman on the TG4 series Ros na Rún.

AISLING Lyons, a young harpist from Newmarket-on-Fergus will be among those taking to the stage to compete for the Seán Ó Riada gold medal in a concert to be broadcast live on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta this Friday.

AFTER a difficult 2012, Tommy Fleming is hitting the road again and will perform at Glór later this month.

NIAMH Parsons, along with Clare-based guitarist Graham Dunne, will perform at a special concert in the Community Hall in Feakle on Friday, February 1 at 8pm.