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I was watching Irish band The Pillow Queens belt out a live performance of Liffey on James Corden’s Late Late Show when the thought struck me.

Minister Martin launches €50m suite of measures to support the Live Performance Sector €14m new support scheme for live entertainment businesses €5m to local authorities for outdoor live performances €5m capital supports for live entertainment sector €1m to St. Patrick’s Festival The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, today announced a new €50m suite of measures to support the commercial live performance secto...

Elise Archer,Minister for Arts The Tasmanian Government recognises the significant impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on the State’s cultural and creative sector, and that’s why we have provided significant support to help the industry get back on its feet. In December 2020, we announced a $2 million Live Performance Support Program to give the sector confidence to plan live performances in 2021. Through this program, our Government will share some of the risk of potential lost ticket sales i...

The show must go on - even if it is not in a theatre. Pat Moylan Productions presents the world première of The Secrets of Primrose Square, written and adapted for stage by Claudia Carroll and based on the book of the same name. The online recorded and streamed event will be available via mermaidartscentre.ie on Monday and Tuesday, January 25 and 26, at 8pm. Tickets are €12. Welcome to Primrose Square… At number 18, theres Susan - an ordinary woman dealing with the unimaginable, while her ...

IRELAND’S only Irish Sign Language Interpreted pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk at UCH Limerick has been extended due to overwhelming public demand. The panto will now run until midnight on Sunday, January 10 with a choice of online streams with or without signing. With people watching everywhere from Panama to Portlaoise and Brisbane to Bantry, the UCH Panto has already been viewed thousands of times right across the world. People have tuned in over Christmas from countries including Austra...

Ireland’s only Irish sign language interpreted pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk at UCH Limerick, has been extended online to next Sunday due to overwhelming public demand. And former boyband star Dayl Cronin, who plays Jack, tells Sundayworld.com how the cast of the Limerick panto had to live together for 20 days before recording the show this year due to Covid-19. Singer and dancer Cronin, who was a member of Louis Walsh’s HomeTown boyband, says: “It’s been so weird doing panto this y...

Online gigs to ring in the new year and get you through early January The Academic, Mick Flannery and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh among those offering streamed shows Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 05:00   This time last year we were looking forward to so many gigs, concerts, shows, performances and events that we could hardly arrange a suitable schedule to attend even half of them. But then, from March, the ground under the Irish music industry went from concrete to clay, and the remainder of the year swayed ...