Programme 2022

A Strange Beauty

The Music of Linda Buckley

• 14 August 2022
• Set Theatre

Paula Meehan with David Power

For the Hungry Ghosts PREMIERE

• 13 — 14 August 2022
• Parade Tower

Irish National Opera

Out of the Ordinary / As an nGnách

• 9 — 14 August 2022
• The Old Nightclub (Ormonde Hotel)

Secret Garden Music

• 6 — 14 August 2022

Wingform

Barry O'Halpin & Jack Phelan

• 9 — 14 August 2022
• The Learning Centre at the Butler Gallery

Stephen Doyle

Self Identity: An Exploration

• 6 — 14 August 2022
• KAF Gallery, ST KIERAN’S COLLEGE, VIA NEW ST

Kevin Atherton: The Return

In partnership with Kilkenny Arts Festival

• 7 August — 2 October 2022
• Butler Gallery, Evans’ Home

MATRIARCH

• 4 — 17 August 2022
• Various venues

Conjuring Form

Image by Jennifer Hickey

• 6 August 2022
• National Design & Craft Gallery, Castle Yard

Irish Chamber Orchestra and Ailish Tynan

Opera Gala

• 11 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle

• 6 — 11 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Malcolm Proud

Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1 - Concert 1

• 12 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Malcolm Proud

Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1 - Concert 2

• 13 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Chamber Choir Ireland

Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

• 11 August 2022
• The Black Abbey

Martin Hayes & the Common Ground Ensemble

Marble City Sessions

• 13 August 2022
• St Canice's Cathedral

Maija Sofia

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 11 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

Sean O’Hagan

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 11 August 2022
• Set Theatre

Howe Gelb

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 12 August 2022
• Cleeres Theatre

Bas Jan

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 13 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

TOUCAN

• 12 August 2022
• Set Theatre

Theo Dorgan

Introduced by Liz Kelly

• 12 August 2022
• Parade Tower

Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet

• 11 August 2022
• Parade Tower

The Local - Steppe's Bar, Callan

By Medb Lambert, Clare Monnelly & Emma O’Grady

• 12 August 2022
• The Steppes Bar, Callan

The Local - Cleere's Bar

by Medb Lambert, Clare Monnelly & Emma O'Grady

• 13 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

Marcus de la Poer Beresford

Sir Denis Pack & the War Against Napoleon

• 10 August 2022
• Parade Tower

Malcolm Proud

In Converstaion

• 12 August 2022
• St John's Priory

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 5

• 10 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 6

• 11 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Kevin Atherton

in conversation with Sonia Shiel

• 7 August 2022
• Parade Tower

Stephen Doyle

in conversation with Anna O’Sullivan

• 7 August 2022
• Parade Tower

Maya Youssef

Marble City Sessions

• 8 August 2022
• Set Thetre

Martin Hayes

in conversation with Brían Mac Gloinn

• 8 August 2022
• Parade Tower

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 1

• 6 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 2

• 7 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 3

• 8 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Irish Chamber Orchestra and Sharon Carty

Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony in C minor and Deirdre Gribbin's 'The Stones of Life'

• 6 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

Irish Baroque Orchestra and Tara Erraught

The Trials of Tenducci

• 7 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

Saíocht: a celebration of Ireland’s leading poets and Irish traditional musicians

Stephen Rea, Louise and Michelle Mulcahy, Neil Martin, Emily Cullen and Gabriel Rosenstock

• 8 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

An Evening with Handel and Friends

• 6 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

Ye Vagabonds

Marble City Sessions

• 7 August 2022
• Set Theatre

Bell X1 and Dowry Strings

• 5 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

Myles O' Reilly

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 7 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

Clang Sayne

• 5 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

Cormac McCarthy, Nell Ní Chróinín, Aoife Ní Bhriain & Kate Ellis

Marble City Sessions

• 9 August 2022
• St Canice’s Cathedral

Dave Holland Installation

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 8 — 9 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

Dave Holland Live Performance

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 8 — 9 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

The Hubert Butler Essay Prize 2022

• 9 August 2022
• Parade Tower

Michael Dervan

In Conversation

• 9 August 2022
• Parade Tower

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 4

• 9 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

Critical Voices

• 6 August 2022
• Parade Tower

Róisín ReImagined

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Irish Chamber Orchestra

• 10 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

Laoise O’Brien

For the Record

• 10 August 2022
• The Parade Tower

Keeley Forsyth

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 10 August 2022
• Set Theatre

Loosysmokes 'In Rhythms' Bus

from Kilkenny City to Callan (return)

• 5 — 7 August 2022
• From the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel to Callan (return)

Handel: Semele

with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in partnership with Sestina

• 4, 5 and 7 August
• Watergate Theatre

Masha Gessen

The Hubert Butler Annual Lecture

• 7 August 2022
• St Canices Cathedral

Johnny Gandelsman

Bach's Cello Suites

• 10 August 2022
• The Black Abbey

The Tempest

Rough Magic and Kilkenny Arts Festival

• 3 - 6, 8 - 13 August 2022
• Kilkenny Castle Parklands

Loosysmokes

In Rhythms

• 5 - 7, 10 - 13 August 2022
• The Warehouse, Callan, R95 D237

Colm Mac Con Iomaire & Theo Dorgan: Ériu and Amergín

Narrated by Aaron Monaghan & Bríd Ní Neachtain

• 11 — 12 August 2022
• Watergate Theatre

Speak Like No One in Particular

by Eszter Némethi

• 10 — 13 August 2022
• The Study Hall, St Kieran’s College

Slow Tide

Luke Murphy/Attic Projects

• 10 — 12 August 2022
• Viewed from The Peace Park

Anne Sofie von Otter & Brooklyn Rider

Songs of Love and Death: The Music of Franz Schubert and Rufus Wainwright

• 12 August 2022
• St Canice's Cathedral