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G A L W A Y ' S M O S T C O M P R E H E N S I V E E N T E R T A I N M E N T G U I D E - E D I T E D BY Jeff OConnell

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This year's Fleadh na gCuach sees a grand total of 54 arranged sessions in the town's 12 pubs; the sessions will take place nighly and on Saturday and Sunday, with after noon sessions beginning at 4.30pm. As anybody familiar with the Kinvara area will know already, many musicians, as well as writers and artists, have moved in over the last number of years. As a result, there is a very lively music, singing and dancing scene; Fleadh na gCuach, originally the brain-child of Tony Moylan and a dedicated committee, was started in order to provide an annual focus for all this talent. So who can you expect to hear this weekend in Kinvara? Well, here goes! The Kinvara-based group Flying Fiddles, which includes Debbie Browne, ^Maire O'Keeffe, Gale Stewart, Anne Wallace, Seadna Toibfn, Anne Kinnane, fPaul White, Cliodhna Keavney, Claire Keegan and Nutan; The Trembling Hand String Band, with Paul Mulligan, John Colfer (who has just released a marvellous new CD called Swinging on a Gate with an Irish Mandolin, available locally and at Mulligan and other Galway music shops), Tom Cussen, Pat Costello and Alan Wallace. Also playing over the four-day festival are: Peter Reid, Peter Parson, Jane Smith, Stuart Cawell, John Martyn, Aine McGrath, Francis Droney, Paul Wilkins, Gerry Verrier, Paul Gunning and Jimmy j Fitzgerald. You can also hear Taltarella, featuring Tommy Cunniffe, Martin Glynn, Mossie Martin, Martin Gavin and Colm Dunne; plus Eamonn McGivney and Sean Tarty, Brendan Larrissey, Charlie Harris and Maire O'Keeffe, Eric and Hugh Healy, Gerry Harrington and Eoin O'Sullivan, Charlie Piggott and Tom Neylan, Mary Staunton and Gerry Mulvihill, Eilish O'Connor and Frank Kilkelly, Jackie Daly, Mary Shannon and friends, Donal O'Connor, Mick McCauley, Leonard Barry and friends, Andrew McNamara and

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his weekend Kinvara's Cuckoo flies for the fifth year as some of the best contemporary traditional musicians descend on the attractive south Galway seaport town. Fleadh na gCuach takes place from Friday May 1 to Monday May 4, with music in all the pubs in town and in Duras, at the famous Traveller's Inn; exhibitions, plays, parades, poetry readings and comedy.
friends, Niall Keegan and Sandra Joyce, Desi Wilkinson and Garry O'Briain, Tommy Keane and Jackie McCarthy, Mairtin Fahy, Marion and McCarthy and as they say - many more into the bargan. If music is the focus of the weekend, other things are by no means neglected. A whole range of events will be taking place, including an art exhibition entitled 'Images of Ireland' by Rowena J Otremba, past winner of the Boston Globe Photography Honour award, the Hartford World Merit award, and the Maine Photographic Honour award, to mention a few. She's exhibited in group shows, including 'Edge to Edge', an American/Russian artists exhibition in Boston, while her solo exhi bitions include The Beauty of Place', at Lewiston, Maine. Images of Ireland' will be held in Kinvara Courthouse during Fleadh na gCuach. Poetry and literature feature very strong ly also. There will be a poetry reading with Fred Johnston, Lein Vandeomell and oth ers in Kinvara Courthouse on" Friday evening, May 1 at 8.30pm, with music being provided by flautist Diarmuid Johnson. On Saturday May 2 the poet, novelist and children's author Kate Thompson will present a workshop for children on how a children's book comes into being. The courthouse on Saturday night at 8.30pm will also be the venue for a poetry reading by Frank Golden and R6 Laighl6is, with Tom Nutan providing music on the dobro guitar. On Sunday morning (check posters around town for the venue), May 3, Fred Johnston will give a poetry workshop for adults. Johnston has published six poetry collections, a novel and a number of short stories. One of the founding members of Cuirt Festival of Literature, he has held creative writing classes for adults in UCG, ' In keeping with the tradition of unusual posters for Kinvara's Fleadh na i and he reviews new poetry and visual arts [gCuach this year's offering by artist Peter Reid is another collectors' item.! for the Sunday Times. In Kinvara Courthouse on Sunday May launch of his debut solo album Swinging 3, starting at 12 noon, Kinvara's own Fuinneog present 'Wild Geese', a light- accordion, the saxophone and the mouth burst of Irish and European songs of organ. This will take place in the court on a Gate with an Irish Mandolin, and for migration, struggle, war and peace, with house between 11.45 am and 1.00pm. the occasion he'll be joined by the Lein Vandommele, John Conneelly and Music teacher Marion McMahon will also Trembling Hand String Band. John Paul Gunning, as well as local poet and organise a children's music feis, which Colfer's new CD, produced in Kinvara playwright Colm Corlcss. This event wilil will be held in Kinvara Community Studios, will be on sale in Kinvara be followed by a gathering of local writers Centre, on Monday May 4 starting at Courthouse, along with CDs from other local musicians such as Taltarella, who will read from their own poems and 11.00am. Other events over the weekend include Brendan Larrissey, Stuart Cowell and short stories. Young and emerging writers who would like to take part are urged to lunchtime comedy in Flatley's Cellar Bar many others. Fleadh na gCuach is a genuine local fes with Little John Nee on Sunday. contact 091 637339. Also on Sunday the well-established tival, which is sponsored by Henekein and Children's events also figure this week end in Kinvara, with such activities as Cuckoo Concert will take place in the grant-aided by Galway County Council, pavement and face painting, treasure brails afternoon in Kinvara Courthouse. The phis the good will and practical assistance for cuckoo eggs, as well as a music work impressive line-up includes John Faulkner. of local businesses, trade suppliers and shop that will be given by Paul Gunning, Stuart Cawell, Maria Tecce, Anto donations from local people. Further information is available at 091 accordion player with the great Maimi'n ThisUethwaite and George Murphy. In conjunction with The Cuckoo Fleadh, 637131/037500/637649. Accommodation Cajun Band: Paul will introduce three instruments to participants - the button John Colfer will be having an informal gig information i> available at 091 637485.