This year, the former Shannon festival becomes the MBNA Limerick International Music Festival. The festival takes place in various city venues from June 29th until July 12th 2009. The programme is the most diverse and accessible the festival has yet seen - as well as orchestral, choral and chamber concerts, the programme offer [...]

A nothing but positive story coming from the corporate sector? That’s hardly currently politically correct is it? It’s true though. BDO Simpson Xavier do their cycling/walking/money-raising thing. Not an easy time to be running charity events. Given all the negatives that have been horsing around with the current economic blah blah blah [...]

Funk with a K: Cork's Colm Kenefick is young, handsome, funny and a perfect dj. We hate him. But jesus, we can't stop dancin' to him. Jody pokes with a stick. The Release Party. Yes. Even though it’s only a few months old, it’s taken on a little life of its own, welcoming a couple of hundred people to the basement of Au Bars every Frid [...]

Rock Out: Green n’ Live 15 brings delivers three great acts to town this month. Sixteen Layers, a dynamic alternative rock band from Dublin, will tread the boards for Green and Live Sessions 15 to promote their debut album ' I Am No One' described by Hot Press as "a sonic tour de force". One German critic went as far as saying [...]

Church Classics - Callino Quartet Monday 22 June 8.00pm St. Mary's Cathedral Limerick The Callino Quartet will perform Mozart Quartet in C major K.157, Mendelssohn String Quintet No.1 in A major Op.18 with John Lynch (viola) and Schubert Quartet in B flat major D.112 The Callino Quartet was formed at the West Cork Chamber Music F [...]

Picture Perfect: Limerick based Artist presents her first museum exhibition of more than thirty new painting in the Limerick City Gallery of Art South Gallery which begins on June 11th with a talk from the artist. Entitled “A Place to Stay,” the inspiration for Gillian Kenny’s evocative collection comes from old picture postcards, photograph [...]

Deadmaus, the Canadian djing and producing wunderkind ripped the midweek roof off Trinity Rooms last autumn as almost 2,000 clubbers danced hail to the huge Mau5 head. He returns, triumphant, as one of the world’s most in demand producers, selling like hot cakes on Beatport, with his BBC Radio 1 Essentials mix one of the most popular in history t [...]

Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery are delighted to present, their fifth Annual Open Submission show, an exhibition of contemporary original printmaking selected by Robert Russell, Printmaker and Studio Director at Graphic Studio Dublin which will officially open on Thursday 18th June at 8pm. Limerick Printmakers welcome artists fro [...]

This week’s guest poet at The White House Poetry Revival is Dublin native Catherine Walsh. Having lived in Barcelona and in Eastbourne, England, she is now back in Ireland where she has made Limerick her home. A published poet, her work is taught at Universities across Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S. She co-edits hardPressed Poetry and t [...]

: L.E.G looks forward to a summer highlight and brings you the details on Limerick’s unmissable mini festival running this month in Dolan’s What’s is The Big Chillum? The Big Chillum is a one day reggae, dub, drum n’ bass and dancehall festival running across three areas in Dolan’s from 1pm on Sunday June 14th with a bounty of i [...]
