Welcome to The Glens Centre
The Glens Centre is a gorgeously intimate venue housed in a converted church. The performance space seats up to 140, has excellent natural acoustics and superb technical facilities. The Glens also houses recording facilities and self catering accommodation for visiting performers.
The centre hosts a wide ranging programme including the best of contemporary, world, trad, folk and jazz music as well as a feast of theatre, readings, children’s events and world cinema.
Coming up
The West Ocean Quartet and superb sean nós singer Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill join forces with leading poet Louis De Paor for what promises to be a unique and exceptional evening.
The West Ocean String Quartet was formed by Seamus McGuire and Niamh Crowley on violins, Ken Rice on viola and Neil Martin on cello with the intention of exploring and celebrating music both traditional and newly-composed. Their repertoire is eclectic and unique and they have gained a reputation for breaking down the walls between traditional and classical music
This concert will draw on material from the quartet’s 3 albums including the just-released Ae Fond Kiss. Integral to the evening will be a performance of Oileán na Marbh, a song-cycle composed by Neil Martin especially for Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, to words by Cathal Ó Searcaigh.
Louis de Paor will open the evening with a reading to launch his new bilingual collection of poetry Agus Rud Eile De/And Another Thing. Louis De Paor is a four-time winner of the Seán Ó Ríordáin / Oireachtas Award, He received the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award in 2000. He is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Web site: www.wosq.com
