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New Ross Piano Festival begins this Wednesday, September 20, with an exhilarating programme, including works from Sergei Rachmaninov.

This year’s New Ross Piano Festival will bring some of the world’s foremost musicians to the south east

The 17th Piano Festival takes place from September 20 to 24 in St Mary’s Church of Ireland, New Ross.

A LIVE programme of enchanting and beautiful music and song returns to the All Saints Church in Castleconnell this autumn following a two-year hiatus. Limerick ...

  Clonmel’s Finding a Voice festival, a festival devoted exclusively to music by women, is happening online this year, the only way that’s possible for it. The great Japanese marimba player Keiko Abe and percussionist/composer Evelyn Glennie are among the names represented in the opening programme performed by Alex Petcu, who will also play a new work by Elaine Agnew.   There will be songs by Pauline Viardot, marking the bicentenary of the birth of the great French singer and compos...

Look east A season of Japanese film is available to rent from the IFI from March 5, including classics of the genre as well as newer movies. Japanese Story includes The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985), the cult musical about two wannabe popstars, and 2009’s Fish Story, a science-fiction tale of an obscure rock band’s single making a strange journey through time. See ifihome.ie Focal suas International Irish language festival Seachtain na Gaeilge le Energia is on from March 1-1...