Programme 2022

• Live Performance

Handel: Semele

with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in partnership with Sestina

• 4, 5 and 7 August
• Watergate Theatre

• Live Performance

Loosysmokes

In Rhythms

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

• Live Performance

Paula Meehan with David Power

For the Hungry Ghosts PREMIERE

• 13 — 14 August 2022
• Parade Tower

• Live Performance

Róisín ReImagined

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Irish Chamber Orchestra

• 10 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

• Live Performance

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

• Live Performance

Irish Chamber Orchestra and Ailish Tynan

Opera Gala

• 11 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

• Live Performance

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

• Live Performance

Irish Baroque Orchestra and Tara Erraught

The Trials of Tenducci

• 7 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

• Live Performance

Laoise O’Brien

For the Record

• 10 August 2022
• The Parade Tower

• Live Performance

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle

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

• Live Performance

Malcolm Proud

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

• 12 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

• Live Performance

Malcolm Proud

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

• 13 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

• Live Performance

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

An Evening with Handel and Friends

• 6 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

• Live Performance

Chamber Choir Ireland

Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

• 11 August 2022
• The Black Abbey

Irish National Opera

Out of the Ordinary / As an nGnách

• 9 — 14 August 2022
• Venue to be Announced

• Live Performance

Johnny Gandelsman

Bach's Cello Suites

• 10 August 2022
• The Black Abbey

• Live Performance

Martin Hayes & the Common Ground Ensemble

Marble City Sessions

• 13 August 2022
• St Canice's Cathedral

• Live Performance

Ye Vagabonds

Marble City Sessions

• 7 August 2022
• Set Theatre

• Live Performance

Bell X1 and Dowry Strings

• 5 August 2022
• St. Canice's Cathedral

• Live Performance

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

Marble City Sessions

• 9 August 2022
• St Canice’s Cathedral

• Free

Wingform

Barry O'Halpin & Jack Phelan

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

• Live Performance

Maya Youssef

Marble City Sessions

• 8 August 2022
• Set Thetre

• Live Performance

A Strange Beauty

The Music of Linda Buckley

• 14 August 2022
• Set Theatre

• Live Performance

Keeley Forsyth

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 10 August 2022
• Set Theatre

• Live Performance

Myles O' Reilly

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 7 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

• Installation

Dave Holland Installation

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 8 — 9 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

• Live Performance

Dave Holland Live Performance

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 8 — 9 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

• Live Performance

Maija Sofia

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 11 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

• Live Performance

Sean O’Hagan with special guest Eileen Gogan

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 11 August 2022
• Set Theatre

• Live Performance

Howe Gelb

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 12 August 2022
• Cleeres Theatre

• Live Performance

Bas Jan

Rollercoaster Sessions

• 13 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

• Live Performance

Clang Sayne

• 5 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

• Live Performance

TOUCAN

• 12 August 2022
• Set Theatre

Masha Gessen

THE HUBERT BUTLER ANNUAL LECTURE

• 7 August 2022
• St Canices Cathedral

• Free

The Hubert Butler Essay Prize 2022

• 9 August 2022
• Parade Tower

• Live Performance

Theo Dorgan

Introduced by Liz Kelly

• 12 August 2022
• Parade Tower

• Free

Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet

• 11 August 2022
• Parade Tower

• Live Performance

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

• Live Performance

Speak Like No One in Particular

by Eszter Némethi

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

• Free
• Live Performance

The Local - Steppe's Bar, Callan

By Medb Lambert, Clare Monnelly & Emma O’Grady

• 12 August 2022
• The Steppes Bar, Callan

• Free

Stephen Doyle

Self Identity: An Exploration

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

• Exhibition

Kevin Atherton: The Return

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL

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

• Free
• Live Performance

The Local - Cleere's Bar

by Medb Lambert, Clare Monnelly & Emma O'Grady

• 13 August 2022
• Cleere's Theatre

• Live Performance

Martin Hayes

in conversation with Brían Mac Gloinn

• 8 August 2022
• Parade Tower

• Live Performance

Michael Dervan

In Conversation

• 9 August 2022
• Parade Tower

• Free
• Live Performance

Kevin Atherton

in conversation with Sonia Shiel

• 7 August 2022
• Parade Tower

• Free
• Live Performance

Stephen Doyle

in conversation with Anna O’Sullivan

• 7 August 2022
• Parade Tower

• Live Performance

Marcus de la Poer Beresford

Sir Denis Pack & the War Against Napoleon

• 10 August 2022
• Parade Tower

• Live Performance

Malcolm Proud

In Converstaion

• 12 August 2022
• St John's Priory

• Free
• Exhibition

Conjuring Form

Image by Jennifer Hickey

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

• Live Performance

Matriarch

• 4 — 17 August 2022
• Various venues

• Live Performance

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 1

• 6 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

• Live Performance

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 2

• 7 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

• Live Performance

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 3

• 8 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

• Live Performance

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 4

• 9 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

• Live Performance

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 5

• 10 August 2022
• St. John's Priory

• Live Performance

Carducci String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle - Concert 6

• 11 August 2022
• St. John's Priory