Dublin Guitar Quartet play Nenagh Arts Centre this Saturday
The Dublin Guitar Quartet perform at Nenagh Arts Centre this Saturday,
22ndSeptember
Regarded as Ireland’s leading guitar ensemble, the quartet’s concerts
include a mix of works of the guitar quartet repertoire and modern classics
by internationally acclaimed composers such Philip Glass, Steve Reich,
Henryk Gorecki and Arvo Part. In March of 2004, Lyric FM broadcast their
Mermaid Arts Centre concert over two installments of the ‘Horizons’
programme. This concert included a world premier of Four Guitars by
internationally acclaimed composer Kevin Volans. The quertet’s members are
Brian Bolger, Pat Brunnock, David Creevy and Tomas O’Durcain.****
The DGQ have played as guests of ‘rock’ groups such as The Redneck
Manifesto (**Dublin**) and Final Fantasy (**Canada**) performing in venues
such as Vicar St. Whelan’s of Wexford Street, the Project
Arts Centre, Crawdaddy and the Roisin Dubh, Galway.
The concert will take place at 9 p.m. on Saturday, 22nd September. Doors
open at 8 p.m. Admission is €15 and tickets are available from Nenagh Arts
Centre in Banba Square on 067 34400.
In addition, these four fantastic musicians will be coming to Nenagh the
night before their concert (Friday, 21st) to give a workshop in guitar
playing. The workshop is open to all types of guitar players at all levels.
Tickets are strictly limited for the workshop. More info on both concert
and workshop at www.nenagharts.com
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Edinburgh Festival award winning comedy set for Nenagh Arts
Centre next week.
The theatre company from **Dublin** Fishamble is bringing their
Edinburgh award-winning play ‘The Wheelchair on My Face’ to Nenagh Arts
Centre on Saturday 29th September.
A comedy, the show tells how a young woman girl hilariously navigates the
choppy waters of short-sightedness: ‘I got my first pair of glasses when I
was seven. A nurse came to the school and tested everyone’s eyes. And so it
was discovered why I’d thrown bread to the floating crisp packets in our
local pond and walked into lamp posts and said, ‘excuse me’. Until that day
the world was a swirl of moving coloured blobs. I thought it was the same
for everyone. How wrong I was.’
Part memoir, part theatre and part stand-up comedy’ said the Irish
Independent, this delightful story of a myopic seven year old is brought
to you by actor and comedian, Sonya Kelly (RTE’s ‘The Savage Eye’). The
Irish Times described this play as ‘delightfully whacky, hilarious with a
tight script and engaging performance. Terrific’. ‘The Wheelchair on my
Face’ won an Edinburgh Fringe Festival award for writing for Sonya Kelly.
The play begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday 29th September. Admission is €15 and
tickets can be booked online from www.nenagharts.com or by calling the Box
Office at 067 34400
