Kilkenny

For almot 40 years, the Kilkenny Arts Festival has brought together a multitude of exceptional musicians, performers, writers, and artists from around the globe in the medieval city of Ireland. Over the course of ten enchanting days every August, the city's historic churches, castle, courtyards, townhouses, and gardens serve as a captivating backdrop for extraordinary partnerships and intimate connections between audiences and creatives.
From outdoor theatre to contemporary dance, the Festival is dedicated to staging events of the highest calibre, thrilling audiences of all kinds. Classical music has been at the core of the Festival from the very beginning, and recent concerts have featured an astonishing number of globally acclaimed artists including Sir András Schiff, Alina Ibragimova, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Nathalie Stutzmann, Alfred Brendel, Roderick Williams, Les Arts Florissants and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
In recent years the Festival has enriched its programme with major new initiatives like The Marble City Sessions, a cross-genre series of unique musical collaborations, hosted and co-curated by the great Irish fiddle-player and artist-in-residence Martin Hayes.
Indeed, artist residencies now lie at the heart of everything the Festival does, offering a combination of continuity and innovation that gives the Festival its unique spirit. The Festival’s orchestra-in-residence, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, collaborates with leading national and international performers on concerts that combine the traditional with the thrillingly modern, while in recent years the position of poet-in-residence has been graced by everyone from Paula Meehan and the late Eavan Boland to former US laureates Billy Collins and Robert Pinsky.

For more information, and tickets go to https://www.kilkennyarts.ie/&nbsp;
To Contact Main Office: +353 56 7763663
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Box Office: +353 56 7752175

Kilkenny Arts Festival 10-23 August 2023

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