Soprano Trish Goggins & Guests Lunchtime Charity Concert
In aid of Wexford Marine Watch & Wexford Mental Health Association. Join Trish for an hour of beautiful music for a worthy cause.
The Friary Church
24th Oct 13:00 – 14:00 Tickets: €15.00 (E)
Wexford Male Voice Choir – Live @ Lunchtime
Wexford Male Voice Choir will perform a special concert in the Spiegeltent on Wexford Quay.
Spiegeltent Wexford Quay Front
25th Oct Doors open 13:30 Show starts at 14:00 Tickets: €10 (B) (T)
Wexford Folk Orchestra Concert & Guests
An entertaining evening of folk music, song and verse.
Riverbank House Hotel
22nd Oct 19:30 Tickets: €10 (D)
Wexford Festival Singers
Classical Choral Concert including Dvorak Mass in D.
Rowe Street Church, Wexford
1st Nov 15:00 Tickets: €15 (D) (G)
Our Lady’s Island Organ Recital
Lady’s Island is once again having its Fringe event of the Wexford Opera Festival after a lapse of eight years. The 2015 event features European renowned Richard Dunster-Sigtermans who is an accompanist, conductor, educator and examiner. He has worked in the world of church music since the age of 15, including posts at the Queens Chapel of the Savoy and Bath Abbey. One of the many pieces he will play is Handel – Water Music Suite which will be very appropriate for the magnificent setting of our Pugin Church overlooking the Druidic/Christian Island and magnificent lake with its flora and fauna.
Church of the Assumption, Our Lady’s Island
1st Nov 14:30 Tickets: €10 (E) (O) (D)
Musici Ireland presents Guitar Music by Boccherini and Vivaldi with Guitarist David Creevy
Musici Ireland return to the Wexford Fringe Festival for their 4th consecutive year with a concert of Classical Guitar Music. Following another outstanding year of performances including sell out concerts in Wexford, Dublin and Meath, and their debut live broadcast on lyric FM, Musici Ireland return home to play with David Creevy, formerly of the Dublin Guitar Quartet.
Musici Ireland have gained a reputation for world class performances, with stellar line-ups. This concert is a wonderful opportunity to see some of Irelands top string players. Programme:Mia Cooper and Anita Vedres –Violin, Beth McNinch –Viola, Grainne Hope and Ailbhe McDonagh –Cello, David Creevy -Guitar
Rowe Street Church
26th Oct 15:00 Tickets: €15/€10 conc. Children under 16 Free (D) (E)
Postponed due to unforseen circumstances. For more information and concert details: www.musici.ie
Music at Whitford House Hotel
17th Oct 22:15 – 00:15 Derek Cunningham
18th Oct 18:00 – 20:00 Rob Weldon
18th Oct 21:00 – 23:30 John Flood
23rd Oct 21:30 – 23:30 Stuart Byrne
24th Oct 22:15 – 00:15 Des Browne
25th Oct 18:00 – 20:00 Stephen Murphy
25th Oct 21:30 – 23:30 Jimmy Hogan
31st Oct 22:15-00:15 Blue Lace
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Maggie May’s Bar Gig Guide
16th Oct 22:30 – Panic Animal
18th Oct 21:30 – Trad/Ballad Session
19th Oct 21:30 – Borderline
22nd Oct 21.30 – Shane O Leary
23rd Oct 22:30 – Wrecking Ball
25th Oct 19:30 – Trad/Ballad Session
25th Oct 22:30 – Switch
26th Oct 21:30 – Trad/Ballad Session
30th Oct 21:30 – The Shindigs
1st Nov 21:30 – Trad/Ballad Session
Mon – Thurs 10:30 – 23:30 Fri – Sat 10:30 – 00:30 Sun 12:30 – 23:00 Open Bank Holiday Weekend (F)
The Busquitos Lunchtime Jazz from The Netherlands
Happy swingin’ music for all ages!
The Busquitos from The Netherlands play a very catchy mix of brilliantly played music, sung with an impressive Louis Armstrong like hoarse voice, and dazzling, funny entertainment that will put a smile on everyone’s face! And if the time is right, they will mingle, wireless, and play a serenade, organize a limbo or line-dance, or get the audience to sing along to one of their catchy jazzy tunes.
Wexford Arts Centre
23rd Oct 13:00 Tickets: €10/€8 conc. (E)
Thomas Moore Tavern, Cornmarket
‘Wexford’s Finest Food & Drink’
20th Oct 21:30 ‘TMT’ Trad Session
21st Oct 21:30 Stuart Burns
22nd Oct 21:30 Stuart Burns
23rd Oct 21:30 Mick Buggy
24th Oct 21:30 Helena Bates
25th Oct 21:30 Stuart Burns
27th Oct 21:30 ‘TMT’ Trad Session
28th Oct 21:30 Katie Wright
29th Oct 21:30 Stuart Burns
30th Oct 21:30 Family Affair
31st Oct 21:30 Stuart Burns
3rd Nov 21:30 ‘TMT’ Trad Session
See you there!
Open from 12:00 til late.(F)
Eleanor McEvoy
Irish Songstress, multi-instrumentalist, bewitching live artiste, writer of classics ‘A Woman’s Heart’, ‘Sophie’, ‘Harbour’ and ‘The Secret of Living’ – performs her moving ‘Alone’ show.
Her latest album ‘Stuff’ described as “a standout” by the Irish Times also received rave reviews around the world “Sass and vulnerability are a rare combination that Eleanor McEvoy is capable of absolutely”.
Wexford Arts Centre
17th Oct 20:30 Tickets: €18/€16conc. (E)
Frankenstein Bolts
Two Wexford artists Justin Cullen and Dan Comerford return from some of the country’s biggest festivals to play their very own brand of dreampop & folk with their recently recorded debut single ‘Up to the Root’.
Wexford Arts Centre
16th Oct 20:30 Tickets: €10 (E)
Lunchtime Recitals
The very popular Lunchtime Recitals provide an insight into the artistic personality of some of the principal singers of the Festival and are a way to meet them in an informal setting.
St. Iberius Church
22nd , 23rd , 24th , 27th , 28th , 29th , 30th , 31st Oct 13:05 Tickets: €15 (A)
Gala Concert
The Gala Concert is one of the highlights of Wexford Festival Opera and features a collection of favourite party pieces from members of the Festival Company. All proceeds go toward supporting the programmes of Wexford Festival Opera.
O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House
25th Oct 21:00 Tickets: €50-€80 (A)
Celebrity Recital; Tara Erraught
Dundalk-born mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught garners critical praise and enthusiastic audience acclaim wherever her increasingly busy international opera career takes her. Tara came to worldwide attention in February 2011. In 2010 she received the National Concert Hall, Dublin’s Rising Star Award. She is the youngest recipient, and only the fifth musician, to have received this annual award since its instigation in 2000. Tara performed with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin in March, 2015. During the spring and summer of 2015 she will sing with the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Washington National Opera and in the Dominican Republic.
O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House
26th Oct 11:00 Tickets: €25 (A)
Piano Recital
The Tenth Dublin International Piano Competition took place between 15th and 26th May 2015. Sixty-nine selected applicants from eighteen countries, including six from Ireland, competed in front of a panel of distinguished judges for monetary prizes and professional engagements.
The winner of the 2015 competition was Nathalia Milstein (18) from France. Nathalia will begin a career with a number of important debut engagements that come with the first prize: Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and the National Opera House, Wexford as part of Wexford Festival Opera.
O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House
31s Oct 11:00 Tickets: €25 (A)
The Busquitos Lunchtime Jazz from The Netherlands
Happy swingin’ music for all ages!
The Busquitos from The Netherlands play a very catchy mix of brilliantly played music, sung with an impressive Louis Armstrong like hoarse voice, and dazzling, funny entertainment that will put a smile on everyone’s face! And if the time is right, they will mingle, wireless, and play a serenade, organize a limbo or line-dance, or get the audience to sing along to one of their catchy jazzy tunes.
Wexford Arts Centre
23rd Oct 13:00 Tickets: €10/€8 conc. (E)
St Iberius’ Lunchtime Charity Concert:
The Wexford Tenor Trio, Fr Aodhán Marken, Fr Jim Fegan and Cllr George Lawlor with Guest Artists.
26th Oct 13:05 Tickets available from St Iberius’ Church 09:30 – 16:00 Daily:€12
