The 2022 Kilkenny Arts Festival gets underway, bring with it an eclectic music programme incorporating classic, electronic, chamber, folk and more.
Bell X1 make an appearance with Dowry Strings, rescheduled from last year’s Covid-cancelled festival. The Secret Garden music returns to venues around the city and county with pop-up performances from some of the festival’s marquee names.
Once again St. Canice’s Cathedral will be a busy venue, beginning with Bell X1 tomorrow and finishing out with Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble in nine days time.
You can get the full programme, plus all the ticket links, online at KilkennyArts.ie.
4 August
- No live music events scheduled
5 August
- Bell X1 & Dowry Strings, St. Canice’s Cathedral
- Clang Sayne, Cleere’s Theatre
6 August
- Secret Garden Music
- Carducci String Quarter, St. John’s Priory
- Irish Chamber Orchestra & Sharon Carty, St. Canice’s Cathedral
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: An evening with Handel and Friends, St. Canice’s Cathedral
7 August
- Secret Garden Music
- Carducci String Quarter, St. John’s Priory
- Irish Baroque Orchestra & Tara Erraught, St. Canice’s Cathedral
- Ye Vagabonds, Set Theatre
- Myles O’Reilly, Cleere’s Theatre
8 August
- Secret Garden Music
- Carducci String Quarter, St. John’s Priory
- Maya Youssef, Set Theatre
- Saíocht: a celebration of Ireland’s leading poets and Irish traditional musicians, St. John’s Priory
- Dave Holland installation, Cleere’s Theatre
9 August
- Secret Garden Music
- Carducci String Quarter, St. John’s Priory
- Cormac McCarthy, Nell Ní Chróinín, Aoife Ní Bhriain & Kate Ellis, St. Canice’s Cathedral
- Dave Holland installation, Cleere’s Theatre
10 August
- Secret Garden Music
- Carducci String Quarter, St. John’s Priory
- Róisín Reimagined, St. Canice’s Cathedral
- Laoise O’Brien, The Parade Tower
- Keeley Forsyth, Set Theatre
- John Gandelsman, The Black Abbey
11 August
- Secret Garden Music
- Irish Chamber Orchestra & Ailish Tynan, St. Canice’s Cathedral
- Chamber Choir Ireland, The Black Abbey
- Maija Sofia, Cleere’s Theatre
- Sean O’Hagan, Cleere’s Theatre
- Carducci String Quarter, St. John’s Priory
- Colm Mac Con Iomaire & Theo Dorgan: Ériu and Amergín, Watergate Theatre
12 August
- Secret Garden Music
- Malcolm Proud, St. John’s Priory
- Howe Gelb, Cleere’s Theatre
- Toucan, Set Theatre
- Colm Mac Con Iomaire & Theo Dorgan: Ériu and Amergín, Watergate Theatre
- Anne Sofie von Otter & Brooklyn Rider, St. Canice’s Cathedral
13 August
- Secret Garden Music
- Bas Jan, Cleere’s Theatre
- Malcolm Proud, St. John’s Priory
- Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble, St. Canice’s Cathedral
14 August
- A Strange Beauty: The music of Linda Buckley, Set Theatre
- Secret Garden Music
