Galway Advertiser 1988/1988_07_28/GA_28071988_E1_017.pdf 

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Day by D a y Programme
TUESDAY 2nd AUGUST 5.00 pm Official Opening of the Festival in The Great Southern Hotel, Eyre Square. Special guest appearance by The Brass Band from San Francisco. 8.00 pm World Premiere of Joe Comerford's film "Reefer And The Model", Claddagh Palace, Salthill. 8.00 pm From Texas, Singer Songwriter, Guy Clark in Concert at The Great Southern Hotel. WEDNESDAY 3rd AUGUST 11.00 am Colourscape, one of the most unusual attractions of the Festival. Fisheries Field, Salmon Weir Bridge. Open all day to 6 p.m. Colourscape is an air supported Sculpture that you can enter and experience a fantastic world of vivid changing colours. 6.00 pm Official Opening of the Brian Bourke Retrospective Exhibition (1963-1988). 4 7 / 4 9 Dominick Street. 8.00 pm From San Francisco, The Brass Band in Concert in The Great Southern Hotel. Described by Time Out as "The Best Act In Town". 8.00 pm "Reefer And The Model" starring Ray McBride. Claddagh Palace, Salthill. 11.00 pm Festival Club, The Warwick Hotel. THURSDAY 4th AUGUST 11.00 am Festival Exhibitions open till 6 p.m. 11.00 am "It felt like being part of a rainbow". Bring your kids along to Colourscape at the Fisheries Field, Salmon Weir Bridge. Open till 6 p.m. 1.00 pm Pegasus Players present "Diary Of A Golliwog". Lunchtime Theatre in The Great Southern. 6.00 pm Official Opening of Western Artists Exhibition. McDonogh House, Merchants Road. 8.00 pm "A fantastic evening of musical slapstick..."; 2nd Show by The Brass Band from San Francisco in The Great Southern Hotel. 8.00 pm "Reefer And The Model", shot entirely on location in Galway. Claddagh Palace, Salthill. 9.00 pm Traditional Concert with new band, Arcady, formed by ex-De Danann bodhran player, Johnny Ringo McDonagh. Warwick Hotel, Salthill. 11.00 pm Festival Club, The Warwick Hotel. 11.30 pm Amampondo in Concert at The Great Southern Hotel. Eight stunning dancers, drummers and acrobats from Soweto in South Africa. FRIDAY 5th AUGUST 11.00 am Festival Exhibitions open till 6 p.m. 11.00 am Colourscape in The Fisheries Field, Salmon Weir Bridge. Till 6 p.m. 1.00 pm "Diary Of A Golliwog". Theatre. Great Southern Hotel. Lunchtime '_ From Soweto Amampondo, are one of several top international groups that are playing this year's Festival. A feast of music and rhythm is assured during Amampondo's late night concerts in the Great Southern on Thursday August 4th and Saturday August 6th. 8.00 pm "Reefer And The Model", Claddagh Palace, Salthill. 8.00 pm "My Life As A Dog", superb Swedish comedy film. Claddagh Palace Mini, Salthill. 9.00 pm Patrick Kavanagh Show. "Out Of That Childhood Country" by Tommy and John McArdle. The Warwick Hotel. 9.00 pm Concert to launch a new album, "No Man's Land" by two Galway guitarists, Jimmy Fitzgerald and Gerrard Coffey. Warwick Hotel, Salthill. 11.00 pm Festival Club, The Warwick Hotel. 11.00 am 9.00 pm Jazz Concert with Itchy Fingers. A superb Saxophone Quartet from London. Warwick Hotel, Salthill. Itchy Fingers were voted "Best New Band" by the leading Jazz Magazine, 'Wire' in 1987. 11.00 pm Festival Club, The Warwick. 11.30 pm Amampondo in Concert. Great Southern Hotel. "This isn't just music -- it's the heartbeat of Africa. You won't sit still". SUNDAY 7th AUGUST Festival Exhibitions till 6 p.m.

11.00 am Colourscape: Fisheries Field, Salmon Weir Bridge. Till 5 p.m. 12 noon London, Lunchtime Jazz with Itchy Fingers from Great Southern Hotel. "Devastating

Virtuosity" - SUNDAY OBSERVER

12 noon Traditional Session with Tommy Peoples (fiddle), Dermot Byrnes (accordion) and Garry O'Briain (bouzouki). Atlanta Hotel, Dominick Street. 8.00 pm In Concert, celebrated Jazz and Blues singer, Bertice Reading. Great Southern Hotel. Bertice is currently starring in the West End Musical, 'South Pacific' as Bloody Mary. 8.00 pm "Reefer And The Model", Claddagh Palace, Salthill. 8.00 pm 11.00 pm "My Life As A Dog", Claddagh Palace. Festival Club, The Warwick Hotel. MONDAY 8th AUGUST 11.00 am Festival Exhibitions till 6 p.m. 1.00 pm Lunchtime Classical series of Concerts in The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas. Michael d'Arcy (violin), Richard ThirhvaO (violin), Dympna O'Byrne (piano). 8.00 pm Druid Theatre present "Little City" by Seamus Byrne. Opening Night. Chapel Lane. 8.00 pm Reading by Ireland's Leading Poet Seamus Heaney. Great Southern Hotel. 8.00 pm "Reefer And The Model**, Claddagh Palace, Salthill. 8.00 pm "My Life As A Dog", Claddagh Palace.

11.30 pm Festival Ball with Chris Meehan and his Red Neck Friends. Special guests. Great Southern. SATURDAY 6th AUGUST 11.00 am Festival Exhibitions till 6 p.m. 11.00 am Colourscape, Fisheries Field. Salmon Weir Bridge. Till 6 p.m. 1.00 pm "Diary Of A Golliwog", Lunchtime Theatre, Great Southern Hotel. 2.00 pm Festival Parade with Lemuel Gulliver. Starting point, Fair Green, Forster Street. 8.00 pm Preview of the Druid Theatre production of "Little City" by Seam us Byrne. Chapel Lane. 8.00 pm Last chance to see the "Musical Marx Brothers", The Brass Band from San Francisco. Great Southern Hotel. 8.00 pm "Reefer And The Model", a film by Joe Comerford. Claddagh Palace, Salthill. 8.00 pm "My Live As A Dog", superb Swedish comedy film. Claddagh Palace Mini, Salthill. 8.30 pm The Junior National Youth Orchestra play Leisureland, Salthill. The 130 strong orchestra includes the Galway musician, Lisa McLoughlin. The Concert programme for Leisureland will feature Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin and Symphony No. 2 by Borodin.

8.00 pm Preview of the Druid Theatre production of "Little City" by Seam us Byrne. Chapel Lane. 8.00 pm "The funniest musical act since Victor Borge" -- 3rd performance by The Brass Band from San Francisco. Great Southern Hotel.

Sisters, Blaithin and Brona Cahili, two members of the 130 strong, Irish Youth Orchestra which visits Leisureland for a Concert on Saturday, August 6th at 8 p.m. The Orchestra's programme for Galway includes Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin and Symphony No. 2 by Borodin.