Meet the Curator: Susan Proud
Late last week, Ken McGuire met up with Susan Proud, our classical music curator, to discuss this year's festival.
In the video, Susan explains the Baroque emphasis to this year's programme and tells us why she's looking forward to the craft strand in particular.
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Preview: Title & Deed World Premiere
With thanks to the Goethe Institut, Gare St Lazare Players bring the world premiere of Title and Deed to Kilkenny.
The work, performed by Conor Lovett and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, is a new piece specially written for the company by acclaimed American playwright Will Eno.
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Venue changes for Guo Yue and Christophe Rousset
Due to changes in technical requirements, we've had to change the location of the Guo Yue cookery demonstration and Christophe Rousset performance.
All tickets purchased for the original venues remain valid.
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Preview: Cathal Coughlan & the Necropolitan Quintet
Neally every Irish music fan will know of Cathal Coughlan's genius.
A tough and uncompromising songwriter, Coughlan is a former member of Microdisney and Fatima Mansions, and no stranger to criticial acclaim.
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Preview: Susan McKeown & Christine Tobin
There'll be more than a hint of literary magic in the air when two native Dubliners combine for this unique performance.
Using poetry as their inspiration, two outstanding vocalists, Susan McKeown and Christine Tobin, share the bill in the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel.
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Preview: The Arts Are A Luxury We Can’t Afford Right Now!
Should a government be responsible for funding the arts when it has to borrow to pay the wages of doctors, teachers and the Gardai?
Can a country afford to spend millions to keep pieces of art in the country when hundreds of thousands are unemployed?
Those and other questions will be passionately debated when a panel of key stakeholders from both sides of the argument meet in The Pembroke Hotel on Saturday, August 6 at 11.30am.
Entry is free.
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Preview: Mark Kozelek
The law of diminishing returns states that, despite the continued application of effort/skill towards a particular project, there will undoubtedly be a decline in effectiveness.
Somebody should tell Mark Kozelek, a man who has managed to combine productivity and critical acclaim quite comfortably.
Over the course of his career, Kozelek has produced no less than 13 studio albums; six with Red House Painters, four with Sun Kil Moon and four under his own name.
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Preview: Cashell Trio
Local favourites The Cashell Trio - aka Ben, Anna and Sophie Cashell - provide a fitting end to this year's Classical Music programme.
The haunting surrounds of St. Canice's Cathedral will provide the backdrop to an afternoon of classical rarities.
The programme includes Beethoven’s monumental last piano trio The Archduke, Lalo’s rarely-heard Trio no. 1 and the 17-year-old Shostakovich’s remarkable Piano Trio no. 1.
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Preview: Drums Off Chaos & Philip Jeck
Drums Off Chaos are unlike any band you've ever seen or heard. Since 1982, Jaki Liebezeit, Reiner Linke and Maf Retter have been creating a multi-layered groove using odd meters and unconventional rhythms.
Liebezeit is best known as the beating heart of Can (whose frontman, Damo Suzuki, took The Set Theatre by storm last year), and has worked with the likes of Brian Eno, Chet Baker, Eurythmics and many more.
This is powerful, hypnotic, life-affirming music.
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Preview: Tabernacle
Tabernacle, the new dance piece from Fearghus Ó Conchúir, takes a thoughtful look at changing attitudes to religion in a country whose identity was defined by it for so long.
When it premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival earlier this year, Tabernacle caused quite a stir amongst critics and fans alike.
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