Galway Advertiser 1988/1988_08_04/GA_04081988_E1_012.pdf 

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T h e Festival Office (beside Tourist Office), Victoria Place. Eyre Square,

GALWAY.

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THURSDAY 4th AUGUST 11.00 pm

BOX OFFICE PHONE 68317

D a y by D a y P r o g r a m m e
11.00 am Festival Exhibitions open till 6 p.m.

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. Festival Club, The Warwick.

11.00 am "h 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.
Remember the fantastic concerts last year by British jazz band, Loose Tubes! Well, watch out for this year's visitors, top English jazz group, Itchy Fingers, who play two Festival concerts on Saturday August 6th (Warwick Hotel at 9 p.m.) and Sunday lunchtime August 7th (Great Southern Hotel at 12 noon). Itchy Fingers are a brilliant saxophone quartet who have received rave reviews in the English music press and won the Best Jazz Group Award for 1987 in the influential Wire Magazine Poll last Christmas. Like Loose Tubes, Itchy Fingers are great entertainers as well as being superb musicians.

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". S U N D A Y 7th AUGUST 11.00 am Festival Exhibitions till 6 p.m.

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

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 Colourscape in The Fisheries Field, Salmon Weir Bridge. Till 6 p.m. 1.00 pm "Diary Of A Golliwog". Lunchtime Theatre. Great Southern Hotel. 8.00 pm Preview of the Druid Theatre production of "Little City" by Seamus 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.

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.

1.00 pm Lunchtime Classical series of Concerts in The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas. Michael d'Arcy (violin), Richard Thirlwall (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.

Festival E x h i b i t i o n s
Open 11 a.m. -- 6 p.m. daily BRIAN BOLRKE RETROSPECTIVE (1963-1988)

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.

WESTERN ARTISTS: Group Show McDonogh House. Merchants Road. Galway. PARAIC O'FLAITHEARTA: S c u l p t u r e The Arts Centre. Nun's Island. Galway. CHRISTY KEANEY. Ceramic Sculpture LORCAN WALSHE. SHANE CULLEN, Paintings MADDEN-ARNHOLZ COLLECTION: Prints U.C.G. Gailery. The Quadrangle. U C.G CYRIL BYRNE: Photographs

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 Review of the Druid Theatre production of "Little City" by Seamus 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, SatthiB. 8.00 pm "My Live As A D o g " , 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.
Sisters, Blaithin and Brona Cahill, 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.