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Kilkenny Arts Festival 10 - 20 August 2023
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Programme

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  • Live Performance
  • Installation
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  • Music
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  • 10th
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  • 14th
  • 15th
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  • 19th
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  • Indoors
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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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The Local

The Local

Asylum & Kilkenny Arts Festival in association with Once Off Productions & Watergate Theatre
  • Thurs 10 - Sat 12 & Mon 14- Sat 19 August
  • Sheridan's, Ennisnag, Co. Kilkenny R95 YT93
Contact the Box Office to be added to the waiting list
Bench Tales

Bench Tales

Barnstorm Theatre & Kilkenny Arts Festival
  • Mon 14 - Sat 19 August
  • Meeting point is the Duck Pond in Kilkenny Castle Parklands
Contact the Box Office to be added to the waiting list
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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Carducci

Carducci String Quartet

Programme 1: Haydn & Beethoven
  • 13 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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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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Seamus Heaney

Heaney Translations: The Testament of Cresseid

Vona Groarke with Olivia O’Leary
  • 14 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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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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Lixsania Fernandez

Lixsania Fernández

  • 15 August 2023
  • St John's Priory
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Seamus Heaney

Heaney Translations: Beowulf

Mary Clayton with Olivia O’Leary
  • 16 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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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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Crash5 Andrew Hamilton

Crash Ensemble with Andrew Hamilton

Friendly Piece
  • 18 August 2023
  • The Watergate Theatre
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ICO Thomas Zehet

Irish Chamber Orchestra

with Thomas Zehetmair
  • 18 August 2023
  • St Canice's Cathedral
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Seamus Heaney

Heaney Translations: The Midnight Verdict

Peter Fallon with Olivia O’Leary
  • 18 August 2023
  • Parade Tower
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