Shorelines – celebrating artists and community
Supporting artists, locally and nationally, and giving people the local community an occasion to celebrate were the main aims of the organisers of this year’s Shorelines Arts Festival in Portumna.
“And to have live events,” says Shorelines Chairperson, Noelle Lynskey of the event which takes place this Friday to Sunday, September 17-19.
Those live shows include Spliced, the acclaimed one-man, multi-media drama about hurling, identity and mental health, written and performed by Cork’s Timmy Creed, which the Sunday Times described as ‘explosive’. Having performed it at festivals in Ireland and at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe, he’s now bringing it to the hurling heartland of Portumna. Spliced is on at 8pm this Friday, outdoors in the GAA All-Weather pitch. Roscommon trad group Gatehouse are in concert at Christ Church at 8.30pm this Friday. Made up of John McEvoy on fiddle viola and piano, John Wynne on flutes and whistles, Rachel Garvey on vocals and Jacinta McEvoy on guitar and concertina, the group has been performing since 2014 and has released two lauded albums, Tús Nua, and Heather Down the Moor.
Galway’s ConTempo String Quartet are in Christ Church at 2.30pm this Saturday, while there’s a free concert with Mike Hanrahan (Stockton’s Wing), Eleanor Shanley and Rachel Grace in the Irish Workhouse Centre at 8pm. That’s as part of the Ceol an tSamhraidh series of concerts countywide.
At 10.30am Saturday, there’s a Lacemaking Demonstration with Headford Lace Project. That’s at An Gáirdín.
At 12pm, in Christ Church, there will be readings with David Butler and Madeleine D’Arcy with music from Larks by the Lake, while the same venue will host a Literary Hour with Nuala O’Connor, Louise Kennedy and Sarah Moore Fitzgerald at 4.30pm. The popular Henry Girls are in concert at the Workhouse Centre on Sunday at 4pm, while singer-songwriter Seba Safe (aka Michael Dalton) will be there Sunday night. His show, at 8pm is part of the free Ceol an tSamhraidh series.
At 2.30pm on Sunday, writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan will host an event entitled Leprechaun Lore, billed as “a chat about all things magical”. That’s in Christ Church.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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