Festival Highlights

CELEBRATING ANTHONY CRONIN:

In conversation with Colm Tóibín
Date: Wednesday, 26 September
Place: Ranelagh Multi-denominational School
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €20/€12 (students, unwaged and OAPs)
Featuring a musical interlude by harpist Áine Ní Dhubhaill and singer Mary Stokes.

ABSTRACT AND ALMOST ART EXHIBITION

Date: Friday, 28 September - Sunday, 30 September
Place: Sandford Park School Hall
Time: 12 noon - 6pm
Tickets: Free event
Paintings and sculptures by Tony O'Malley, Sean Scully, John Noel Smith, Michael Warren, Cecil King, Brian Henderson, Colin Harrison and others.

OLD TIME CÉILÍ

Date: Friday, 28 September
Place: Mount Pleasant Tennis Club
Time: 9pm
Tickets: €25/€15 (students, unwaged and OAPs)
Featuring Ciarán Tourish and the Ranelagh Céilí Band, with special guest Maura O'Connell and a host of other brilliant musicians.

GREEN JAMBALAYA: ROCK 'N ROLL BALL

Date: Saturday, 29 September
Place: Mount Pleasant Tennis Club
Time: 9pm
Tickets: €25/€15 (students, unwaged and OAPs)
Featuring John Keogh, Keith Donald, Anto Drennan, Bobby Kelly, the Keoghettes, James Delaney, Brian Rickeby, Bernard Barrett and Brian Lynch.

VIVALDI'S GLORIA BY THE CULLENSWOOD SINGERS

Date: Saturday, 29 September
Place: Sandford Parish Church
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €15/€10 (students, unwaged and OAPs)
The 36-strong choir will perform Vivaldi's Gloria in D major, RV589, accompanied on organ by Charles Pearson. The event will also feature The Dublin Viols.

THE DUBLIN VIOLS (Andrew Robinson, Director, Jenny Robinson, Laoise O’Brien, Lucy Robinson, Anne Robinson, Honor O Brolchain) was formed in 1980 as an offshoot of The Consort of St Sepulchre, which specialised in Medieval and Renaissance music. Both groups performed all over Ireland and Europe and recorded for BBC and RTE radio and television. The Consort of St. Sepulchre also recorded for EMI and The Dublin Viols with Dead Can Dance.

AN TRAIDISIÚN FAOI BLÁTH (The Tradition Flourishing)

Dáta: Déardaoin, 27ú Meán Fómhair
Ionad: Scoil Bhríde
Am: 8.30pm
Táille: €15/€10 (mic léinn, daoine gan tuarastal, pinsinéirí seanaoise)
Amhráin Ghaeilge Oirialla ó Phádraigín Ní Uallacháin, amhráin Bhéarla Chuige Uladh ó Len Graham, ceol traidisiúnta ó Chaoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (fidil) agus Mick O'Brien (píob).

BATTLE OF THE BANDS and ROCK FEST

Date: Saturday, 29 September
Place: Ranelagh Gardens
Time: 1.30pm
Tickets: Free event
Local teenage bands will compete on an open-air stage for top prizes in the Battle of the Bands.

CINEMOBILE in Sandford School Car Park

Date: Saturday, 29 September
Full programme details to follow
The Cinemobile will feature the following movies:
· The Ugly Duckling and Me
· Saturday Matinée: A TRIBUTE TO MAUREEN O'HARA The Hunchback of Notre Dame (with full support programme)
· Mein Leben für Irland (My Life for Ireland)
· Director's Choice: La Strada, A film by Federico Fellini (with full support programme)

OPEN DAY FOR FAMILIES

Date: Sunday, 30 September
Place: Ranelagh Gardens
Time: 2pm - 5pm
Tickets: Free event
Featuring the Mad Hatters, Conor Lambert's Puppet Show, Capuara, the Independent Theatre Workshop and the Dance Theatre of Ireland.

BOCKETY- PUB THEATRE

Tickets: Free event, throughout the Festival, as follows:

Wednesday, 26 September Opening night: Russell's Pub 9pm
Thursday, 27 September Humphrey's Pub 9pm
Friday, 28 September McSorley's Pub 7pm
Saturday, 29 September Humphrey's Pub 2pm
Saturday, 29 September Russell's Pub 6pm
Sunday, 30 September Smyth's Pub 1pm
Sunday, 30 September Birchall's Pub 7pm

Other festival events include:

- Historical walks and talks
- A photographic exhibition: Ranelagh Then and Now
- An evening of theatre, featuring the Ranelagh Players
- Chinese Karaoke
- Poetry Speakeasy
- The Festival Fringe will feature the Fanzini Brothers, a photographic installation on the Triangle, a group show of local artists and much, much more.