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Kilkenny Arts Festival 10 - 20 August 2023
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Programme

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  • Live Performance
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  • Music
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Caoimhin O Dan T

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Dan Trueman

  • 20 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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John D Kelly

Martin Hayes & Friends

FESTIVAL FINALE
  • 19 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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Manchán Magan Other World

Manchán Magan & Other World

Slí na Samhlaíochta
  • 19 — 20 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Broken Chanter RCS

Broken Chanter

  • 19 August 2023
  • Cleere's Theatre
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Secret garden

Secret Garden Music

  • 12 — 20 August 2023
  • Various Venues
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ICO Phil Selway

Philip Selway

with Irish Chamber Orchestra
  • 11 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Oumou Sangare

Oumou Sangaré

  • 10 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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John Scott's Migration Sonata

Migration Sonata

Irish Modern Dance Theatre & Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • 11 — 12 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Smithwicks RC

Rollercoaster Back2Back DJs

  • 12 August 2023
  • Smithwick's Barrel Yard
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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme 1: Haydn & Beethoven
  • 13 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Cormac Begley

Cormac Begley & Friends

  • 12 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Donal Dineens Backstory

Dónal Dineen

Dónal Dineen's Backstory
  • 11 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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Camerata

Camerata Kilkenny

Programme II; Bach, Purcell, Couperin & Franz Biber
  • 12 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Camerata

Camerata Kilkenny

Programme I; Bach, Purcell & Clérambault
  • 11 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Secret Gardens Mount Juliet

Secret Garden Music at Mount Juliet

  • 13 August 2023
  • Mount Juliet
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Lyrath Estate Exterior Day 2 Jack Hardy 2022 2

Secret Garden Music at Lyrath Estate Hotel

  • 12 August 2023
  • Lyrath Estate Hotel
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Iarla Cormac Matthew

Iarla Ó Lionáird, Cormac McCarthy & Matthew Berrill

  • 13 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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Martin Hayes and friends Kate Ellis

Martin Hayes & Kate Ellis

  • 14 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Barry Douglas

Barry Douglas

Schubert & Liszt
  • 14 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme II; Mendelssohn & Haydn
  • 14 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Chamber Choir Ireland

Chamber Choir Ireland

In Paradisum; Pärt, Clarke & Shaw
  • 15 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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Katie Kim

Katie Kim & Elaine Howley

  • 15 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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Dave Holland RCS

Dave Holland

Wicked Little Atoms in the Fragments of the Long Waves
  • 14 — 15 August 2023
  • Cleere's Theatre
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Lixsania Fernandez

Lixsania Fernández

  • 15 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme III; Clarke, Shaw & Dvořák
  • 15 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme IV; Glass, Ravel & Piazzolla
  • 16 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Crash Ensemble Diamanda and Sam Amidon

Crash Ensemble with Diamanda La Berge Dramm & Sam Amidon

  • 16 August 2023
  • Watergate Theatre
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Sweeney

Sweeney

RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Iarla Ó Lionáird & Ciarán Hinds
  • 16 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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Crash Ensemble AOBA ICHIKO

Ichiko Aoba

with Crash Ensemble
  • 17 August 2023
  • Set Theatre
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Encounters

Encounters

  • 15 — 17 August 2023
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Josienne Clarke RCS

Josienne Clarke

  • 17 August 2023
  • Cleere's Theatre
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Aoife Ni Bhriain And Colin Dunne

Aoife Ní Bhriain & Colin Dunne: Open Rehearsals

  • 16 — 17 August 2023
  • Barnstorm Studio at The Home Rule Club
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Crash5 Andrew Hamilton

Crash Ensemble with Andrew Hamilton

Friendly Piece
  • 18 August 2023
  • The Watergate Theatre
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Malcolm Proud and Darren ornish Moore

Malcolm Proud & Darren Cornish-Moore

Dowland, Sweelinck, Jeep, Bull, Byrd, Pierluigi da Palestrina & Farnaby
  • 19 August 2023
  • St Canice’s Cathedral
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ICO Thomas Zehet

Irish Chamber Orchestra

with Thomas Zehetmair
  • 18 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Brighde Chaimbeul by MCS

Brìghde Chaimbeul

  • 18 August 2023
  • Tudor Kitchen, Rothe House
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