Boyle Arts Festival is highly regarded for its visual arts, with well-established as well as young and emerging talent featuring in the group exhibition of works by some of the very best contemporary Painters and Sculptors in Ireland.
Boyle Arts Festival is highly regarded for its visual arts, with well-established as well as young and emerging talent featuring in the group exhibition of works by some of the very best contemporary Painters and Sculptors in Ireland.
Boyle is also renowned for its programme of classical music with concerts by young and established soloists, ensembles and choirs. Other areas catered for each year include local art exhibitions, jazz, traditional and world music, drama, literature, storytelling and singers nights, comedy, workshops and children's programmes.
PLANNED HIGHLIGHTS 2006
- In 2006 the main Visual Arts Exhibition will host artists from the Royal Ulster Academy- the first time that the Academy have hosted an exhibition outside Belfast.
- Music continues to be well represented and on the opening night, Friday 21st, Finghin & Dearbhla Collins play a (one piano) duet recital featuring music by Mozart to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth. On Sunday 23rd Neil Martin performs with poet Cathal O’Searcaigh and on the following night, Monday 24th, soprano Mairead Buick is accompanied by pianist Anthony Byrne.
- This year we are pleased to announce that our Festival Composer is jazz musician Ronan Guilfoyle, whose performance on Tuesday 25th July will include a piece especially composed for the Boyle Arts Festival.
- In Drama, the Chapterhouse Theatre Company return with an outdoor production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Jamie Carswell brings Tinylife to Boyle from its success at the Dublin Fringe Festival on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th July.
- Comedy is provided by The Funny Girls as they reform for their appearance on Friday 21st and the Drawing Room Opera Company perform Classical Capers – an evening of popular opera and song with a difference with Frances Kelleher (piano) and Liz Ryan (mezzo soprano) on Wednesday 26th.
- Lunchtime shows and lectures include Paul Clements, who on Saturday 22nd July takes us on his tour round the highest points of Ireland.
- For children, the Horse & Bamboo company will be bringing the pPod – Europe’s only architect designed miniature theatre- to the grounds of King House on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd July.
- With local musicians, exhibitions, storytelling, readings and workshops, there really is something to suit all tastes.
