Tread Softly... Sligo's Celebration of the Yeats Family returns from 27th July - 8th AugustThe third Tread Softly festival, celebrating the link between Sligo and the Yeats family will take place this year 27th July – 8th August.The many dimensions of this family of famous artists – Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler, painter Jack B, embroiderer Susan and fine press printer Elizabeth – will be brought to life [...]  Read More...

6PM  SUNDAY 3RD AUGUST - THE MODEL - THE MALL -  SLIGOEDEL SHANNON SOPRANOANDREWS SYNNOTT PIANORare Sligo appearance for  EdelSligo has produced many great artists, writers, actors and performers of many different musical genres, from traditional  to country, jazz and rock. However it is not so widely known for the quality of its classical musicians and singers.It is [...]  Read More...

Sat. 31 May – Sun. 30 Sep. 2014The Model is delighted to present The Music Has Come, a new exhibition by Jack B Yeats that looks at his interest in song, and also at the way in which he used music and it’s performance as a key device to interrogate ideas in his painting. Colloquial song that aimed to stir political, patriotic and romantic sentiment in the listener held a particular fascination for Yeats, and [...]  Read More...

CAI’s 2013-2014 live events programme comes to a glittering end on Wednesday the 18th 6:30pm when the great pianist Daniel Barenboim comes to Berlin to joining forces with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, and the concert is relayed live to The Gaiety Cinema as part of a Europe-wide event.He will play Brahms’ towering first piano concerto, one of the greatest pieces ever written for the instrument, [...]  Read More...