Entertainment

Celtic Theme Runs In Down Arts Centre Peformances

Down Arts Centre continues a month of great music with Celtic Airs & Graces, featuring flautist Karin Leitner and harper Cormac de Barra, at 8pm on Friday 17 February. Born in Vienna and a graduate of the Vienna Academy of Music and Arts, flautist Karin Leitner is a truly international musician. Karin has played recitals worldwide and is currently Artist & Composer in Residence in Tehran, Iran.

Musical Duo Bound For Downpatrick

Down Arts Centre and Moving on Music are delighted to bring Irish flautist Aisling Agnew and Scottish guitarist Matthew McAllister, to Down Arts Centre for a performance on Sunday 5 February at 3pm.

Highlight Of Belfast festival Comes To Downpatrick

Down Arts Centre is delighted to offer customers the opportunity to see ‘Hostel’, a warm, funny and thought-provoking play by Belfast-based Kabosh Theatre Company, on Friday 27 January at 2pm and 8pm. Maria is going places. She’s getting an education, a degree, and she’s getting out. Then she gets pregnant - and like that…she’s written off.

Don't Tell The Wife Comes To Dundrum

Back in September 2011 the idea of a play was conceived by some of the Thespian-minded Gaels in Dundrum GAC. A few weeks later the Dundrum Community Theatre Group came into existence. Planning began in earnest in November and since then Dundrum parochial hall has been buzzing with auditions, rehearsals, props, lighting, learning lines and many more antics. Under the direction of Claire Murnin, 'Don't Tell the Wife' is a laugh-a-minute comedy which is sure to keep everyone entertained.

Phil Coulter Playing For Downpatrick Listowel Linkage

Top Composer, Producer and Performer Phil Coulter headlines north-south musical concert

A major musical concert is being staged at the Ulster Hall in Belfast on Saturday 26 November 2011, featuring Phil Coulter and special guests the Cross Border Youth Orchestra of Ireland, Una Hunt, Kintra and Liam O’Connor. This special musical concert is to mark over thirty years of north south co-operation by the Downpatrick and Listowel Linkage Group.

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Madama Butterfly And The Nutcracker Coming To Waterfront

Madama Butterfly And The Nutcracker Coming To Waterfront TWO magical showpieces are set to light up the stage at Belfast Waterfront: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on Tuesday 1 November and The Nutcracker on Wednesday 2 November. Read the rest of this entry »

Enjoy Arts Performances From Down Arts Centre

DOWN Arts Centre are delighted to announce that Antrim-born folk band The Rapparees will launch their much anticipated second album, Wrapped Up, in County Down at The Lodge Cultural Centre, Castlewellan, at 8pm on Saturday 12 February. The Centre is being currently renovated and performances are being held between the Annesley Hall in Newcastle and The Lodge, Castlewellan.

Wrapped Up is the culmination of two years work for this lively bunch of Antrim musicians, collecting and composing music, not to mention enlisting multi-instrumentalist and Beoga front-man Liam Bradley as album producer. When the band’s debut album Clarity hit the folk world it achieved rave reviews at home in Ireland and opened doors abroad, resulting in back-to-back tours of France and Germany, not to mention a sell-out gig at Down Arts Centre.

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The Rupture Dogs Tour To Hit Denvir’s

The Rupture Dogs

EVIL Monkey Promotions proudly presents THE RUPTURE DOGS live in Denvir’s, Downpatrick on Thurs 10 Feb as part of their recently announced UK/Ireland tour.

The grunge/rock trio has had a hugely successful year which saw them releasing their second EP, supporting Alabama 3 as well as coveted slots at Glasgowbury, Pigstock and RADAR.

2011 is set to be their busiest year yet with plans for extensive touring throughout the UK and Ireland as well as numerous studio sessions working on eagerly anticipated new material which will make its debut during this tour.

“The Rupture Dogs are a great example of how to make proper heady rock with a complete disregard for what anyone dares to think. Which, of course, is the way it should be…” said Aoife McKeown of ATL.

Supporting them on the night are Armagh based ‘Gascan Ruckus‘ who recently came runner up in the Hideout’s Battle Of The Bands with their energetic, punky sound as well as Lisburn based ‘Like Statues‘ who are currently supporting their recently released EP ‘Numeric In Design‘.

Doors open at 9:00pm Entry: £5.

Doris Day Celebrations Returns By Popular Demand

HOT on the heels of highly acclaimed performances at the Belfast Film festival in 2009 and Down Arts Centre earlier this year, we are delighted to welcome back Brigid O’Neill and band with their innovative and highly entertaining celebration of Doris Day – in Movies and Song, to The Annesley Hall, Newcastle, at 8pm on Friday 12 November. With the Down Arts Centre undergoing renovation, The Annesley Hall will be showing some of the performances that would normally have taken place in Downpatrick.

Doris Day was the top ranking female box-office star of all time, the spirited blonde with a wholesome twist who loved, laughed, cried and sang her way across the silver screen for decades.