Arts & Culture

FORMER Stockton’s Wings singer and guitarist, Ennis native Mike Hanrahan, will perform a special gig with Eleanor Shanley at this year’s Temple Bar TradFest.

STORYTELLER, playwright, actor and musician Little John Nee is bringing his play The Derry Boat to Glór for one night only in February.

AN innovative resource for music teachers is to be launched in Limerick next week. IrishMusicEducation.ie will be launched by Gerry Godley at Mary Immaculate College on Friday, January 21. The launch will feature composer Elaine Agnew with a participatory performance of Cardew’s The Great Learning.

ART lovers of all ages will find plenty to entertain at the Hunt Museum in Limerick in the coming weeks. Exhibitions, kids’ workshops and free concerts are to be held in the venue.

TWO young Clare fiddle players were among the finalists in the inaugural year of a competition in the name of Seán Ó Riada, which was contested in a concert in Cork on Friday night.

MORE than 40 top-class music events will see musicians from the US, UK, Switzerland, Slovakia, Hungary and all across Ireland perform a wide-ranging line-up of gigs and concerts in the Sixmilebridge area for the twelfth Shannonside Winter Music Weekend, from this Thursday night.

GALWAY musician Albert Niland will be the next guest of the Island Music Club, playing at the Highway in Crusheen on Friday, January 21.

THE first art exhibition of this year in the Glór Gallery is by local artist group, Inis Artists. The diverse exhibition, which mainly features landscapes and Clare scenery, opened to the public last Saturday and so far has been well received.