Arts & Culture

TV REVIEW

RADIO broadcaster, musician, songwriter and music producer, Philip King has been closely involved in the arts in Ireland for over 20 years. As a musician, he has recorded a number of albums and has been involved at editor, producer and presenter level with a number of television and radio programmes, including Other Voices, The Full Set, South Wind Blows and Sé mo Laoch. He was appointed to the Special Committee on the Traditional Arts in 2003.With this level of experience, he is rightly placed to speak on the contribution of the traditional arts to the economy, a subject he tackled at the Breandán Breathnach Memorial Lecture to open the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay last Saturday.He pointed out that there was a time, not so long ago, that the traditional arts were simply not a consideration. “The notion of having the words traditional, arts and economy in the same sentence would have been unthinkable and maybe meaningless. Until …

CLARE now has its very own Secret Garden. Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and Ennis Tidy Towns have brought the children’s classic to life, beside Cois na hAbhna.

DRUID is looking for five young people to join 14 professional actors on stage for its production of Seán O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie in Glór in August.

GLÓR is offering teenagers a chance to experience their own piece of Glee this month.

A CHARITY gig in memory of Thomas Mannion and Kevin Murray to raise funds for the Clare Crusaders Clinic will be held on Thursday night in Ennis.

SPANCILHILL man Robbie McMahon is no stranger to singing at fleadhs the length and breadth of Ireland through the years. But, for the Spancilhill man, Friday’s appearance at a fleadh in Galway will be a performance with a difference.