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HIGHLIGHTS AT WEXFORD
FESTIVAL FRINGE 2005
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FRINGE FESTIVAL LISTING Oct 20 OPENING NIGHT FIREWORKS with BLUE MOOSE (7.15pm) + SOME LIKE IT HOT BIG BAND (9.30pm) The first night of he festival is always great fun. Crowds of people gather on the quays for the formal festival launch and, more importantly, the fireworks that follow. Afterwards the town's hostelries experience a tidal wave of thirsty humanity with many heading for the Riverbank House Hotel across the bridge for a munch and a pint then upstairs for Wexford's own big band, Some Like It Hot. Oct 20 (11pm) BLUE MOOSE Rock, The Backroom (Centenary Stores), The Quays. Adm free before 11pm, 8E thereafter. Tel 053 24424. Oct 20 (9.30pm) After Dark Description: rock, r'n'b. Dakota Bar. No c.c. Oct 20 Beatlemania, South 51 Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 20 (9pm) Ger Busher, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 20,21,22 (9pm) Italian Piano Trio, Potato Market Restaurant, Wexford Oct 20 Borderline, Shooter’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 20 Martin Jackman, Macken’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 21 (9.30pm) Des Browne, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 21,22 (1.10pm) STAIRHEID GOSSIP Scottish all-female a cappella group. Wexford Arts Centre. 8 Euro. Tel 053 23764. Oct 21 (9.30pm) LIAM O MAONLAI + STAIRHEID GOSSIP Folk, trad, rock 'n' roll from Hothouse Flowers frontman with support by the fab Scottish, all-female a cappela group Stairheid Gossip. Colfer's, Carrig on Bannow. 16 Euro. Tel 051 561159. Oct 21 (10pm) LOUDEST WHISPER Great Folk ‘n’ rock 'n' roll band. Crown Bar, Wexford. No c.c. October 21st-23rd (8.30pm) Wexford Drama Group presents 3 x One Act Plays: Roman Fever, 25 Not Out, The Zoo Story. The talented Wexford Drama Group returns to the Arts Centre with three very entertaining One-Act Plays - Roman Fever by Hugh Leonard, The Zoo Story by Edward Albee and 25 Not Out by Hazel Wyld. Wexford Arts Centre. 12/10 Euro. Tel 053 23764. Oct 21 Stephen Murphy, Ferrycarrig Hotel (Dry Dock Bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 21 Degrasse Band (5 piece soul/rock) and songwriters Paige and Cory (USA), The Sky & The Ground, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 21 Laughter Lounge presents RHOD GILBERT, comedian, Chocolate/Renaissance Bar, Wexford Oct 22 (1.05pm) VALDA CHAMBER CHOIR Everything from Gospel to nursery rhymes all done with amazing harmonies. St Iberius Church. Adm 10 Euro. Tel 053 22067. Oct 22 (11pm) JASON BYRNE Description: comedian. Talbot Hotel, Wexford. 15 Euro. Tel 053 22144. Oct 22 (10pm) False Alibi + DJ, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 22 Fintan Ellard, Ferrycarrig Hotel (Dry Dock Bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 22 Shane O’Leary, Chaz Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 22 Trish Gallagher, Macken’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 22 Degrasse Band (5 piece soul/rock) and songwriters Paige and Cory (USA), The Sky & The Ground, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 23 (11am) Ma P’tite Paris A selection ranging from the 19th century melodie as interpreted by Berlioz and Debussy to the heady atmosphere of the Chat noir cabaret and Edith Piaf. With Rosetta Cucchi, director and pianist. Dun Mhuire, 15 Euro Oct 23 (1-3pm) Solar (jazz), La Sperenza (White's Hotel), Wexford. Bebop quartet playing interpretations of standards from Charlie Parker, Thelonoius Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Horace Silver and more. No c.c. Oct 23 (3pm sharp) WEXFORD FESTIVAL CHORAL CONCERT Annual choral event. Church of the Assumption, Our Lady's Island. Tickets 10 Euro. Oct 23 (3.30pm sharp) LOCH GARMAN BAND "FESTIVAL BRASS CONCERT" St Iberius Church. No cover charge but optional retiring collection. Oct 23 (9pm) BRIAN KENNEDY Sweet-voiced, Northern troubador. Sure to be a sell-out. Riverbank House Hotel, Wexford. 25 Euro. Tel 053 23611. Oct 23 TENDERHOOX, Chocolate/Renaissance Bar, Wexford Oct 23 (9.30pm) KIERAN MCEVOY AND AILEEN MYTHEN The Sky and The Ground pub. No c.c. Tel 053 21273. Oct 23 (10.30pm) LOUDEST WHISPER Folk ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll band. Vine Restaurant, Wexford. Oct 23 Degrasse Band (5 piece soul/rock) and songwriters Paige and Cory (USA), South 51 Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 23 Firegarden, Shooter’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 23 Joe Keenan, Macken’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 24-29 (1.05pm) Lunchtime Recitals, St Iberius Church Oct 24 (8.30pm) EMERALD FOLK, Wexford Arts Centre. Tel 053 23764. In aid of Ard Aoibhean. Oct 24-29 (1.10pm) Playtime Productions presents "A Lady of Letters", a monologue from the Talking Heads series by Alan Bennett. Wexford Arts Centre. Tickets: E8. Oct 24-30 (8pm) Barry Manilow’s COPACABANA (musical) by Oyster lane Theatre Groups, Dun Mhuire Hall. Tel 053 23061. Oct 24 (8pm) TARA BLAISE, Backroom, Centenary Stores, Wexford. 12 Euro. Tel 053 24424. “Irish singer Tara Blaise revels in those dreamy, windswept moods that Irish artists seem to recreate so well. Discovered by composer John Hughes, she is one of the hottest young songwriters in the Emerald Isle ... This promising debut finds her sounding like a one-woman Corrs on new single Three Degrees, like Tori Amos on Superman In A Bottle, and a Celtic Kate Bush on the sweeping, orchestral Fool for Love”. Oct 25 (8.30pm) CATHIE RYAN (USA).Wexford Arts Centre. 12/10 Euro. Tel 053 23764. "Cathie Ryan, the Irish American singer-songwriter and former member of Cherish the Ladies, is blessed with a soprano voice that's both lovely and affecting. It's a potent combination that helps account for why "The Farthest Wave" is the nearest thing to an uninterrupted pleasure. Cathie is features on A Woman’s Heart – A Decade On. Oct 25 (9.30pm) SONNY CONDELL. Colfer's, Carrig on Bannow. 12 Euro. Tel 051 561159. As a songwriter with legendary groups Scullion and Tír Na nÓg, and more recently solo, Sonny Condell has occupied an almost unrivalled place in the Irish musical landscape for the past thirty years. Condell continues to be one of the most respected writers and performers in Ireland. In the words of Philip King “Sonny’s music has heart, soul, light, shade and a beckoning voice. This voice calls us to listen and listen we should to a writer whose songs are always new and exciting….Sonny Condell continues to be a great artist”.” Oct 25 (9.30pm) WEXFORD SONGWRITERS. Finegan's Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Acts include SJ MacArdle (Dundalk), Hank Wedel (Brooklyn-born, Cork-based), Paul Hodnet (with new Album in tow). Oct 25 David O’Brien, Chocolate/Renaissance Bar, Wexford Oct 26 (8pm) A Reading by 2005 Booker Prize winner John Banville from his latest book "The Sea". Wexford Library. No c.c. Tel 053 21637. Oct 26 AMERICAN DRIFTERS Legendary band with string of hits. Riverbank House Hotel, Wexford. 20 Euro. Tel 053 23611. Oct 26-28 (8.30pm) AFTERPLAY by IMP Productions Afterplay revisits the lives of two of characters, Andrey Prozorov and Sonya Serebriakova, who had a previous existence in two separate Chekhov plays, Three Sister and Uncle Vanya respectively. Both characters are now middle-aged, but cannot escape the circumstances of their earlier lives; Andrey is still an only boy, confused, motherless and living in the remote rural town of Taganrog; Sonya is still deeply and hopelessly in love with the local doctor. Andrey now takes the train regularly from Taganrog to Moscow, allegedly to play as a violinist at the opera, Sonya is in Moscow to negotiate with the Ministry for Agriculture to try to save what's left of her dwindling estate. They meet by chance for one evening, twenty years after their previous fictional lives ended. Wexford Arts Centre. 12/10 Euro. Tel 053 23764. Oct 26 (9pm) MARK GEARY AND EMMETT TINLEY Mark’s second album "Ghosts" has added substantially to the fanbase he’s already built since the release of his "33 ¼ Grand Street". Mark will be joined by Emmett Tinley, formerly of Prayerboat, a songwriter who deals in an altogether more doomed romanticism as evidenced on his acclaimed "Attic Faith" album. The Backroom (Centenary Stores). Tel 053 24424. 12.50 Euro. Oct 26 (9pm) Stephen Murphy, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford Oct 26 The Waxies, Chocolate/Renaissance Bar, Wexford Oct 27,28,29 (9pm) Italian Piano Trio, Potato Market Restaurant, Wexford Oct 27 Roisin Dubh, South 51 Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 27 (9pm) Ger Busher, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 27 Martin Jackman, Macken’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 28 Laughter Lounge presents RUFUS HOUND, Chocolate/Renaissance Bar, Wexford Oct 28 (9.30pm) Terence Casey, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 28 Jimmy Phillips, Ferrycarrig Hotel (Dry Dock Bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 28 Jason and James O’Connor, Chaz Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 29 (3.30pm) PRAGUE CHAMBER CHOIR St Iberius Church. Tickets 15 Euro. Under baton of Lubomir Matl, highlights this year include music by Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger and Jacobus Gallus-Handl. Soprano is Marketa Matlova. 15 Euro. Oct 29, 30, 31 (10am-7pm) CD and Record Fair, Riverbank House Hotel, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 29 DERMOT CARMODY (COMEDIAN) Improv specialist, musician and all-round funny guy. Wexford Arts Centre. 15/14 Euro. Tel 053 23764. Oct 29 NOEL SHINE and MARY GREENE Folk 'n' blues 'n' just really good singin'. La Dolce Vita, Trimmer's Lane. Tickets 16 Euro. Tel 053 70806. Oct 29 (10pm) Java + DJ, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 29 Stephen Murphy, Ferrycarrig Hotel (Dry Dock Bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 29 Trish Gallagher, Macken’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 29 (12 midnight) GALA CONCERT Theatre Royal. Tickets 20 Euro. Tel 053 22144. Oct 30 (11am) Ma P’tite Paris Description: see Oct 23. Dun Mhuire, 15 Euro. Oct 30,31 (8.30pm) THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH by Edgar Allen Poe Nocturne Production presents a Halloween theatrical special – and this been Poe at his spooky best, be afraid! Tel 053 23764. Oct 30 (8pm) Wexford Male Voice Choir Annual festival concert. St Iberius Church, Wexford. Tickets: tel 053 22067. Oct 30 (11pm) LUKA BLOOM More and more LB is taking "his rightful place in the pantheon of intelligent and passionate songsmiths". Talbot Hotel, Wexford. 15 Euro. Tel 053 22566. Oct 30 Kieran McEvoy and Aileen Mythen The Sky and The Ground, Wexford. No c.c. Tel 053 21272. Oct 30 Great Escape, Chocolate/Renaissance Bar, Wexford Oct 30 T 4 2, Ferrycarrig Hotel (Dry Dock Bar), Wexford. No c.c. Oct 30 Joe Keenan, Macken’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Oct 31 (11am) SYMPHONY CONCERT Rowe Street Church. Conductor Antonio Fogliani with Cracow Phil. Orchestra. Soprano Ailish Tynan. Music by Mozart, Gluck, Rossini, Handel. Tickets 15 Euro. Tel 053 22144. Oct 31-Nov 3 (1.05pm) Lunchtime Recitals, St Iberius Church Nov 1,2,3 (8.30pm) Wexford Light Opera Society presents "HITS FROM THE MUSICALS", Ferrycarrig Hotel, Wexford. Tel 053 74808. Post-show the Dry Dock Bar hosts a sing-along with Des Manahan. Nov 1 (9.30pm) WEXFORD SONGWRITERS, Finegan's Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Description: Acts include Stephen Hill (with new album) and Colm Lynch. Nov 1 (9.30pm) FREDDIE WHITE Description: one of Ireland's most enduring folk heroes. Colfer's, Carrig on Bannow. Adm. 15 Euro. Tel 051 561159. Nov 1 (9.30pm) HONOR HEFFERNAN Classy jazz singer + band, promoting a new album. Riverbank House Hotel, Wexford. 12 Euro. Tel 053 23611. Nov 1 Brendan Mulcahy (Starman), Chocolate/Renaissance Bar, Wexford Nov 2 (9pm) Stephen Murphy, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Nov 2,3,4,5 VAGINA MONOLOGUES Really memorable and entertaining theatre. Sold out last time, will sell out this time. Wexford Arts Centre. Tel 053 23764. Nov 2,3 (1.05pm) ROSEMARY TUCK, renowned Australian pianist, plays the music of William Vincent Wallace plus pieces by Liszt, Ravel and Chopin. Wexford Arts Centre. 8 Euro. Nov 3 (11.30pm) CAMEMBERT QUARTET Description: Best five-piece quartet in the World ... ever! Backroom, Centenary Stores, Wexford. Free before 11.30pm, 8 Euro after. Tel 053 24424. Nov 3,4,5,6 (9pm) Italian Piano Trio, Potato Market Restaurant, Wexford Nov 3 (9.30pm) Roisin Dubh, South 51 Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Nov 3 (9pm) Ger Busher, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Nov 3 Martin Jackman, Macken’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Nov 4 (1.05pm) PRAGUE CHAMBER CHOIR St Iberius Church. Tickets 15 Euro. Under baton of Lubomir Matl, highlights this year include music by Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger and Jacobus Gallus-Handl. Soprano is Marketa Matlova. 15 Euro. Nov 4 (10pm) The COMPLETE STONE ROSES Description: guess! And yes, they do sound like the real thing. Colony Nightclub (White's Hotel), Wexford. Nov 4 Laughter Lounge presents BEN NORRIS, comedian, Chocolate/Renaissance Bar, Wexford Nov 4 (9.30pm) "Revive the Jive" with the RUNAWAY BOYS Description: class rock 'n' roll act. Ferrycarrig Hotel (Dry Dock Bar), Wexford. Tel 053 20999. No c.c. Nov 4 (9pm) Voyager, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Nov 4 Des Browne, Chaz Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Nov 4 Trish Gallagher, Macken’s Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Nov 5 DR TOM WALSHE LECTURE Description: Annual lecture held in honour of the festival's founding father. Ferrycarrig Hotel. Tel 053 22144. Nov 5 (1.10pm) CAROLINA HERRERA Description: Colombian singer/guitarist whose style covers a continent. Wexford Arts Centre. Tickets 8 Euro. Tel 053 23764. Nov 5 (2.30pm) CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERT Description: opening with Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of our Time and ending with Beethoven's Choral Fantasy op. 80. Finghin Collins, piano David Agler, conductor. Rowe Street Church. Adm. €20. November 5, (3.30 pm) Kycera, St. Iberius church, Wexford Concert of Europian traditional music, including folk songs of the Czech rep., Ireland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Italy, and Israel. Line-up: Jitke Skrlova (violin), Marketa Malcova (voice), Emily Redmond (viola), Thomas Doyle (double bass), Vicky Clancy (clarinet ). 12 Euro / 7 Euro (free wine reception). Children free. Nov 5 (9pm) CAROLINA HERRERA Description: Colombian singer/guitarist. La Dolce Vita, Trimmer's Lane. Tickets 16 Euro. Tel 053 70806. Nov 5 (11pm) DAVID KITT Description: "A singer of superbly crafted songs with a voice that recalls the ghost of Nick Drake ... This softly spoken musician and singer has won international acclaim for his patented mix of folk melodies, electronica and beats." Talbot Hotel. 15 Euro. Tel 053 22566. Nov 5 (9.30pm) Jimmy Phillips, Ferrycarrig Hotel (Dry Dock Bar), Wexford. No c.c. Nov 5 (9.30pm) Shane O’Leary, Chaz Bar, Wexford. No c.c. Nov 5 (2.30pm) CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERT Rowe Street Church. Honouring the 100th anniversary of the birth of Michael Tippett. Conductor David Agler with Finghin Collins on piano. Tickets 20 Euro. Nov 5 (9.30pm) Great Escape, Talbot Hotel (bar), Wexford. No c.c. Nov 6 (1.05pm) Lunchtime Recital, St Iberius Church Nov 6 (1-3pm) Solar (jazz), La Sperenza (White's Hotel), Wexford. Bebop quartet playing interpretations of standards from Charlie Parker, Thelonoius Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Horace Silver and more. No c.c. Nov 6 (9pm) KIERAN MCEVOY AND AILEEN MYTHEN The Description: folk, blues, rock covers. Sky and The Ground, Wexford. No c.c. Tel 053 21272. Nov 6 The Paddies, Chocolate/Renaissance Bar, Wexford
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