3rd-12th July

2015

HOW TO BOOKYou can book tickets for Clonmel Junction Festival 2015 in the following ways:

ONLINE:www.junctionfestival.com

BY PHONE:11am 6pm (Mon Sat from June 21)+353 (0) 52 612 8521 & +353 (0) 52 618 9315

IN PERSON FROM JUNE 20:Clonmel Junction Festival Box OceUnit 6 Market Place (beside the health food shop)

1 per ticket charge will be applicable to all credit card bookings Concession tickets available for Senior Citizens, Students,

Children (Under 12) and the Unwaged. Proof required. Please make special needs or seating requirements known to us

at time of booking. No late entry to theatre shows.

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1I am delighted to welcome you all to the 15th annual Clonmel Junction Festival. I hope each and every one of you who pick up the brochure will find something that is enticing for you. Over the 10 days there is a tremendous variety of music, theatre, literature, street entertainment and visual arts. I urge everyone to sift through the pages and if you cant find something you know then take a chance on something new.

Over the winter the Festival team have been busy working with a number of groups here in Clonmel, developing new productions which will be presented in July. The junction joes are back working with one step at a time like this after the success of their collaboration together in 2014 and will present the world premiere of forever young; Canadian artist Cathy Gordon has been working with a new youth ensemble and together they will present a work called Belonging(s), and the Festival Choir will this year be teaming up with the ConTempo String Quartet, RT Ensemble in Residence, for the opening night concert in Old St Marys Church.

This years Festival will also present international work from Argentina, England, Italy, Holland and Morocco and many wonderful shows, bands and artists from Ireland. Bringing all this together is a big job that requires funding and a lot of dedicated and committed input from the core team, the board of directors, the volunteers and the many helpers and supporters that contribute in different ways. I would like to offer my thanks to all who have made it possible to sustain the festival through the last 15 years and enabled it to thrive. Most especially I would like to thank you, the public, and hope that you will take in a show or two and enjoy this, the 15th anniversary Clonmel Junction Festival.

INTRODUCTIONBY DAVID TEEVAN FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

FUNDERS

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MUSIC

Venue: Old St Marys ChurchDate: Fri 3rd JulyTime: 8.30pmDuration: 100min inc. intervalAdmission: 22/18

The Clonmel Junction Festival Choir with RT ConTempo String Quartet Conductor: Elisabeth Attl Baritone: Kevin NevilleMezzo-Soprano: Gina OberoiPianist: Stephen C. Parker

In the ConTempos typical fashion, risks were taken, and unusual rewards achieved... the sense of something exceptional at work in the music The Irish Times

Companion eventIrelands Great WarA talk by Journalist Kevin Myers (pg 22) Ticket deal both events 30

Featuring guest vocalists Kevin Neville and Gina Oberoi, the Festival Choir will be joined by RTString Quartet in Residence,ConTempo Quartet under the baton of Austrian conductor Elisabeth Attl, following on from the success of last years Orfeo & Eurydice.

Marking the centenary ofThe Great War, this special concert will feature a selectionof solo and choral pieces by composers who reflected upon the futility and sacrifice of this and other wars.

The selected repertoire will include works by Edward Elgar, Francis Poulenc, Benjamin Britten, Jack Judge & Harry Williams (including the iconic soldiers anthem Its a Long Way to Tipperary), Ivor Novello, Gabriel Faur and Arthur Somervell.

ConTempo will also perform Dmitri Shostakovichs String Quartet no.15 in E flat minor, Opus 144 (1974), his last, and one of the most moving in his landmark string quartet cycle.

ITS A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARYSONGS OF WAR AND PEACE

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THEATRE

Dates and venues:Sun 5th July Raheen House HotelMon 6th July Morans BarTues 7th July Bakers BarWed 8th July Hillview Tennis ClubThurs 9th July - Mulcahys BarFri 10th July - Mulcahys BarTime: 8.30pm (Doors at 8pm)Duration: 65minAdmission: 18/16

Irish Premiere(only Irish performances)

Two pints of lager and a cracking little play. The Times

Their words bounce and weave, dropping in hilarious one-liners or heart wrenching pathosBroadway Baby

Early Doorsis a refreshing and energetic play that takes place in a pub amongst itscustomers. A celebration of community and pub culture, this show is unpretentious, fun and terrificallywell made. Early Doors will be performed in five different bars around Clonmel over six days.

Its the first night under new management! A brother and sister open up their family pub for the first time afterits been left to them by their mum. But tonights not about mourning, its about celebrating and these locals expect nothing less!

Join in the fun as your local becomes the stagefor tales oflove, loss, laughter, drunken dancing and a pub quiz! So drown your sorrows or charge your glasses, but grab a pint, take a seat and And enjoy the show.

EARLY DOORSBY NOT TOO TAME THEATRE (UK)

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THEATRE

Venue: White Memorial Theatre Date: Sun 5th JulyTime: 8pmDuration: 90minAdmission: 18/16Age suitability: 12+

Written and performed by: Donal OKellyWith live music by: Trevor Knight

Edinburgh Fringe First Winner

Brilliant unravelling of the heroic epica masterpiece The Scotsman A rip-roaring one-man adventure The Washington Post

Donal OKellys Catalpa, which was performed at the inaugural Junction Festival in 2001, was one of the seminal productions of the 1990s in Ireland. During the intervening years it has toured the globe delighting audiences and winning accolades in Australia, Africa, the UK and the US. The show has been revived in 2015 to celebrate its 20th anniversary and will be coming back to Clonmel as part of a nationwide tour.

Catalpa is the story of the daring 1876 whale ship rescue of six Irish prisoners from Fremantle penal colony in Australia - all in the vibrant imagination of a screenwriter, the best movie never made! Catalpa is about heroes and visionaries, political intrigue and personal loyalty, with hot romance, mixed-up rebels and battles at sea.

CATALPA BY BENBO PRODUCTIONS

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THEATRE

Venue: White Memorial TheatreDate: Sat 11th JulyTime: 8pmDuration: 80minAdmission: 18/16Age suitability: 12+

Written and performed by: Mikel Murfi

Winner : Zebby Award for Best New Play 2013

Winner: Stewart Parker/ BBC Northern Ireland Drama Award 2013

Shortlisted : Irish Times Theatre Awards 2014 in the category of BEST NEW PLAY.

One of the most delightful shows in yearsIrish Daily MailA physical comedian, blessed with plastic features, and with the vocal range of a ventriloquist, Murfi makes sheep, pigs, dogs, and even bees, come to lifeIrish Theatre Magazine

Set in October 1978. Pope John Paul the First is not long dead, autumn is closing in and Pat Farnon has some business to do in town.

The play is a charming encounter with an ageing man who has a boundless enthusiasm for life. The Man in The Womans Shoes is funny, tender and at times downright daft.

The show was created with Sligo County Council Arts Service and The Hawks Well Theatre, Sligo as part of the Bealtaine Festival 2012. In 2015 it toured to New York and Philadelphia as well as enjoying a three week run at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin.

Having trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris,. Mikel Murfi has over the last 20 years worked as an actor and a director in all the major theatres in Ireland. He has won 5 Fringe First Awards in Edinburgh and the Irish Times Award for Best Supporting Actor. He performed in 2014 at the National Theatre London in Enda Walshs acclaimed production of Ballyturk with Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea.

THE MAN IN THE WOMANS SHOES

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THEATRE

Venue: Scots Church, Anglesea Street Date: Tue 7th and Wed 8th JulyTime: 7pmDuration: 60minAdmission: 16/14Age suitability: 14+

Devised and performed by: Katherina Radeva and Alister Lownie

Total Theatre Award Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014

If I could, Id go see Near Gone for a third time... A big, beautiful heart-thump of a show Matt Trueman, Freelance Theatre Critic

Visceral, edgy and alive Leamington Spa Courier

Near Gone, which won a Total Theatre Award at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, is a heartfelt story about survival.Two performers have a difficult story to tell. They come on stage and launch themselves into an hour-long attempt to put into words the utterly unspeakable. Delivered in English and Bulgarian, with fantastic gypsy-inspired music, this performance fills an empty space with two performers and 400 fresh flowers.

It transforms you too, your sense of what it is to be a mother, a father, a child. And youll leave more fully alive than ever.

Two Destination Language presented A Journey of Home at the 2012 Junction Festival. They work with a variety of medium to present work that is touching, challenging and innovative.

THEATRE

Venue: Morans BarDate: Wed 8th Fri 10th July Time: 7pmDuration: 60minAdmission: 16/14Age suitability: 14+

Written andperformed by: Nonie StapletonDeveloped anddirected by: Bairbre N ChaoimhProduced by: Tom Dowling

Bewleys Little Gem Award Tiger Dublin Fringe Winner 2014

A fast-paced, witty, and intensely emotional tale filled with laughter, loss and despairIrish Times

A testament to Stapletons skills as an imaginative and animated storyteller The Evening Herald

Charolais is an age-old tale offemale rivalry with a new twist: the other woman is a cow, a literal one, a purebred Charolais heifer.

Siobhns boyfriend is a farmer who devotes considerable attention tohis prize heifer at the expense of his very pregnant girlfriend. Siobhn has developed a homicidal jealousy for this Charolais and is feeling equally murderous towards her snobbish soon-to-be mother in law.

Watch as she gleefully plots their untimely downfall to try and win her man...

Perfectly marbled and bashed about til tender, this is a surreal comedy of love, longing and one womans intense rivalry with a Charolais heifer.

NEAR GONE BY TWO DESTINATION LANGUAGE (UK)

CHAROLAISBY BIGGER PICTURE PROJECTS

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THEATRE/FAMILY/CHILDREN

Venue: White Memorial TheatreDate: Thur 9th Sat 11th JulyTime: 4pmDuration: 65minAdmission: 12/8 (Family of 4 32)Age suitability: 2+Website: www.bollesapone.com

Written and performed by: Michele Caffagi

Due to popular demand the Bubble Man is back with a new show of clownery, mime and music, for audiences of all ages.

Welcome to Maestro Cafaggis fragile and fanciful world of soap bubbles where you will meet.the conductor without an orchestra, the musician without an instrumentand the breathless singer.

An eccentric conductor takes you into the slippery world of soap bubbles to perform for you a concert where the unexpected is always waiting in ambush; from odd instruments giant bubbles appear, bouncing bubbles, portable bubbles, bunches of bubbles, and where a few lucky people might be invited to enter into a giant bubble.

OVERTUREA MAGICAL ITALIAN BUBBLE CONCERTO

THEATRE/FAMILY/CHILDREN

Venue: White Memorial TheatreDate: Sat 4th JulyTime: 4pm and 7pmDuration: 65minAdmission: 12/8 (Family of 4 32)Age suitability: 5+

Rarely do you hear cackles this unrestrained: hoots and howls and braysThe Times

Inexplicably wonderful comic theatre Broadway Baby

Sublime physical comedy The Independent.

Vitamin is a beguiling spectacle of nutty treats; a captivating, hilarious, poignant show that reaches out to children and adults alike. The creation of Italian clown Carlo Jacucci, it has won great critical praise, five star reviews, and wide audience acclaim the world over.

In a riotously funny hour of pure silliness, Jacucci mixes finely crafted word games with tales that draw on deep emotion and joy. He plays out simple scenarios in a series of sketches by raking through his props and his imagination; he uses a suitcase to fly; becomes a frustrated caterpillar with the use of a sock and some knitwear, and in an unforgettable sequence becomes a nun trapped in a closed shopping centre.

VITAMINBY CARLO JACUCCI (ITALY)

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THEATRE

Venue: Around ClonmelDates: Tue 7th Sat 11th July Time: Daily from 10amDuration: 60-70 min Tickets 10 (limited to 10 persons per day)Age suitability: 16+

Important information

The performance involves outdoor walking/movement: audiences are advised to dress accordingly

A new journey based show about youthful idealism by one step at a time like this (Australia) and junction joes.

Whatever happened to your youthful idealism? Where did it go? Or is it only sleeping? Thoseoutrageous ideas, hopes, ideals, dreams of how the world could become a better place.

After the success in 2014 of Letters and People the internationally acclaimed Australian contemporary theatre makers, one step at a time like this are returning to Clonmel to work with the junction joes to create forever young a new show for Junction Festival which will be presented at the prestigious Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh during the 2015 Fringe Festival.

Go one-to-one with a reclining chair, a team of adolescent experts, and an outdoor foolhardy adventure. All there to probe the current pulse of your idealism lost or found part research, part rehabilitation and part playful tumble over our supposed wisdom, scars, cynicism and reckless dreaming.The show invokes memories of adolescence, & the outrageous, unrealistic or just plain silly ideas you may have once cherished

An attempt to enliven the present & future, by revisiting the hormones you once had.

FOREVER YOUNGBY ONE STEP AT A TIME LIKE THIS AND

JUNCTION JOES

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EXHIBITION/LIVE ART/PERFORMANCE

Venue: NEST, Mitchell StreetDates: Mon 6th Sat 11th July Times: 11am7pmAdmission: FREE

Provisional Daily Schedule11AM to 2PM Guided tours2PM 3PM Playtime (kids hour) 4PM 5PM Tea Time 6PM 7PM Performances

Artist/Facilitator: Cathy Gordon (Canada)With Isolde ODonoghue, Katherine McVicker & the Belonging(s) Crew

The Belonging(s) crew will be made up of youth arts enthusiasts registered for the LIT/LSAD sponsored Festival Trainee Programme see page 19 for details.

Over the spring of 2015 a cohort of young artists from Clonmelbeganworking with Canadian multidisciplinaryartist, Cathy Gordon,exploring the feeling of belonging as evoked by our personal belongings.

The groupisgathering storiesfromthe Clonmel community using a varietyof methods: anecdotal encounters, audio and video interviews, photographs, drawings, letters, as well as the belongings themselves. These will be assembled in a dynamic and evolving multi-media exhibitionhosted by Gordonand the young artistsat NEST.

The gathering of interviews and objects will be ongoing throughout June and during the Festival. If you are interested in hearing about the project and perhaps offering a story you have about belonging please contact the Belonging(s) team atsearch4belongings@gmail.com

BELONGING(S)AN UNFOLDING STORY ABOUT THINGS

AND THEIR MEMORIES

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PERFORMANCE

During Clonmel Junction Festival 2015, visiting and local artists will present their work throughout the town. On rooftops and in alleyways, at the check-out and in the bank, you may come across a soulful singer, encounter a clown or hear a Shakespearean sonnet.

Take a moment to appreciate these gentle intrusions in the everyday, reminders that art, in all its forms, is both exciting and accessible and that creativity can be found in the most surprising places and in many different shapes.

The Random Acts programme will be created by artist Rachel Helena Walsh

and the Random Acts Crew with the assistance of a host of artists and the kind support of businesses and the local community, who together will make Clonmel their canvas, their studio and their stage.

The Random Acts Crew will be made up of youth arts enthusiasts registered for the LIT/LSAD sponsored Festival Trainee Programme (see page 19 for details).

For daily updates, tip offs and reports keep an eye on Junction Festival Facebook and Twitter (@clonmeljunction #CJF2015 #randomacts)

RANDOM ACTSSTREET ARTS AND SURPRISES

TRAINING

Dates: June 29th July 12thCost: 15Age Group: 14+

2015 Trainee Options: Belonging(s) project (see pg. 16) The Random Acts Crew (see pg.18) The Media Crew with Ronan Quinn

(assist in promoting, reviewing and documenting Festival events)

The Production Team with Colin Everitt (an introduction to technical and backstage work).

Details and application download on www.junctionfestival.com or contact the administration office at 15 Parnell St. Tel: 052 6129339

The Clonmel Junction Festival Trainee Programme, in association with LIT/LSAD Clonmel. The scheme is open to 14-23 year olds with an interest in learning more about the arts. Trainees can choose from one of a number of options depending on their interests and availability.

The success of this programme can be gauged by the number of young people who participate year after year, and witnessing by the many graduates of the programme who go on to work with Junction Festival and with other national festivals and arts organization in both production and administration or as artists.

TRAINEE PROGRAMME 2015

LIMERICK SCHOOLOF ART AND DESIGN

LIT

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MULTI MEDIA/MURAL

A multi-disciplinary cross-community project incorporating audio-visual media, poetry and mural painting

Poetry and Storytelling: Shay HurleyMural Facilitator: Lyn MatherAudio Visual: Paul KellyProduced by: 2CanDo ArtsParticipating Schools: Gaelscoil Cluain Meala, St-Marys CBS, Presentation Primary.

Riverrun Mural: Parallel to the Multi Media project, a large vibrant mural was designed and painted onto the flood relief wall of the park by community groups and volunteers under the guidance of artist Lyn Mather. This mural incorporates a selection of the childrens poems as well as images of wildflowers, animals and insects, celebrating biodiversity and the natural and built heritage of the town we live in.

Riverrun Multi-Media: One hundred children from three primary schools and the Clid Estate visited the newly refurbished Denis Burke Park in Clonmel to find out more about the natural and built heritage of the River Suir. Shay Hurley, environmentalist, storyteller and teacher, invited the young people to discover the local flora and fauna, observe the rhythms and sounds of nature, and learn about the industrial history of Suir Island with its mills, weirs and canals. Together the children composed short haiku poems, which were recorded by filmmaker Paul Kelly against the background sounds of nature.

A short video of the project can be viewed on www.junctionfestival.com and selected websites.

THE RIVERRUN PROJECT

MUSIC/ENTERTAINMENT

Venue: Denis Burke ParkDate: Sat 11thJulyTime: 2pm 5pmAdmission: Free

Suircan Community Forum was founded in 2008 to advocate for a creative, distinctive and appropriate future for Suir Island,balanced with the wider needs of the community of Clonmel. The group has given input into a number of civic initiatives that integrate public space, community and environmental amenities, and essential redevelopment.

Join Suircan Community Forum and the Junction Festival team in the newly refurbished Denis Burke Park: come admire the recently completed Riverrun mural (see page 20) and enjoy an afternoon of art and outdoor activities with canoe and craft demonstrations, guided heritage and nature walks, games, face-painting, and a selection of live entertainment and music. Bring a picnic, a blanket and a pillow and enjoy Clonmels newest civic space!

FAMILY FUN BY THE RIVER

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TALK

Venue: The Main GuardDate: Fri 3rd JulyTime: 6.30pmDuration: 60minAdmission: 15Buy all 3 talks for 35 Companion eventIts a Long way to Tipperary (pg. 2)Combined ticket 30

During his 25 years at The Irish Times, for whom he wrote An Irishmans Diary, Kevin Myers pioneered new studies in the then forgotten Irish involvement in the First World War. He has continued campaigning for Ireland to remember its role in the First and

Second World Wars in the pages of The Irish Independent and now The Sunday Times.

In 2014 Myers published Irelands Great War (Lilliput Press), a compendium of essays about the unsung Irish men in WWI. Here, name by name, parish by parish, province by province, Kevin Myers details Irelands intimate involvement with one of the greatest conflicts in human history, which left no Irish family untouched.

TALK

Venue: The Main GuardDate: Mon 6th JulyTime: 7pmDuration: 70minAdmission: 15Buy all 3 talks for 35

Not only is Dervla a wonderful writer, she goes out and does stuff physically, often politically, wildly dangerous stuff.[she is] observant, engaged, compassionate and unflinching Rosita Sweetman, The Irish Times

Dervla Murphy is one of the worlds preeminent travel writers. She has published over 20 books on such diverse destinations as East Africa, Afghanistan, Cuba, the Urals and Northern Ireland during the 1970s.

As an octogenarian, Murphy has lost none of her vitality and determination and has recently published two powerful books recording her time in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Local writer Grace Wells will discuss some of the salient themes explored in these books with Murphy

IRELANDS GREAT WARA TALK BY JOURNALIST KEVIN MYERS

IN CONVERSATION WITH DERVLA MURPHYHOSTED BY GRACE WELLS

Photo by Eric Luke, The Irish Times

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TALK

Venue: The Main GuardDate: Sat 11th JulyTime: 6.30pmDuration: 70minAdmission: 15Buy all 3 talks for 35

John McCourt says of Anthony Trollope that he occupied a mediating position, believing he knew Ireland better than any other Englishman and better than most Irishmen and used his novels to represent that Ireland to an English public.

Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era, whose success as a writer came during the period he spent in Ireland. During his time here, working for the postal service, he lived for a period of three years on OConnell St in Clonmel and was a good friend of local business man and mayor Charles Bianconi.

John McCourt, author of Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland,and Trollope enthusiast Frank McNally will converse on the work of this significant author, the forgotten charms of his work and how his insights into the Irish influenced perceptions of Ireland abroad.

Join John McCourt and Frank McNally at The Main Guard for this fascinating discussion of Anthony Trollopes life and work in Clonmel.

ANTHONY TROLLOPES CLONMELFRANK MCNALLY (THE IRISH TIMES) IN CONVERSATION WITH JOHN MCCOURT

COMEDY

Venue: Bar 4 @ OKeeffes Date: Fri 10th July Time: Doors 8pmAdmission: 20

One of Irelands best known comedians is making a welcome return to stand-up comedy. Deirdre OKane started her comedy career after filming the Cat Laughs festival in 1996. Her natural comic talents and undeniable charm made her

an instant success with critics and public. Engagements at the Edinburgh, Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals and tours to the Middle East, Hong Kong, Shanghai and London soon followed.

Her acting credits include Intermission, and, most-recently, the award-winning biopic, Noble. Deirdre recently completed filming on the third series of Moone Boy, playing Debra Moone opposite Academy Award Nominee Peter McDonald and Chris ODowd.

DEIRDRE OKANE, COMEBACK GIRL

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VISUAL ARTS

Venue: The Main GuardDates: Fri 3rd Thur 30th JulyTime: 9.00am 5.00pm daily (including weekends closed Monday)Last admission: 45 mins before closingAdmission: Free

Image: Mid Winter by Deirdre Gallagher and Clare Gilmore

Curator: Suzannah OReillyArtists: Deirdre Gallagher, Fiona Quill, Mary ODea, Pamela Dunne, Niamh Fahy, Mike Byrne, Pat Fitzpatrick, Brian Fitzpatrick, David Lilburn, Des MacMahon, Suzannah OReilly, Clare Gilmoure, Bella Walsh, Alan Crowley, Derek OSullivan, David Bowe, Eoin Barry, Gavin Hogg, Gemma Dardis, Clodagh Twomey.

PLAN A + PLAN B PROJECT is an innovative exhibition consisting of print works by 20 members and supporters of Limerick Printmakers. The exhibition includes artworks by each artist working individually (PLAN A) and another selection of artworks (PLAN B) which are the result of these same artists who joined together in pairs to collaborate in producing a single artwork per pair.

The goal of the PLAN A + PLAN B PROJECT is to provide the artists with a unique opportunity to collaborate artistically and technically and to provide the audiences with works that demonstrate an expansive range of contemporary printmaking styles and processes.

PLAN A + PLAN BEXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY PRINT

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VISUAL ARTS

Venue: Raheen House HotelDates and times: Tue 7th July, 10am-6pm & Wed 8th July, 10am 5pmAdmission: 260.00 including tuition, dinner & accommodation (Tues 7th),lunch & refreshments190: as above without dinner & accommodation

James Hanley was born in Dublin in 1965. Known as a portrait painter, he works in a representational style in both painting and drawing and has exhibited extensively in Ireland and abroad. He has been a member of the RHA since 2000, he was elected to Aosdna in 2008 and he joined the Board of the National Gallery of Ireland the following year. He is a regular contributor to the Irish Arts Review.

Hanley works in the RHA life room in Dublin every Thursday with a group of friends and fellow artists. What started as keeping the hand in has now become an integral part of his practice. This year, Clonmel Junction Festival welcomes James Hanley to Raheen House, where he will lead a

two-day masterclass in life-drawing, providing artists with a unique opportunity to develop skills, meet other practitioners and to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar.

Drawing from life, James Hanley believes, is fundamental to honing the necessary skills to work convincingly in a representational style.

It promotes an understanding of figure to ground relationships, space, volume, tone, design and composition, it develops hand-eye coordination as well as reconciling the three dimensional to a two dimensional surface. Life painting is exactly what it is a celebration of life of the artist, the model and the act of making James Hanley RHA

LIFE DRAWING AND PAINTING A TUTORED MASTERCLASS WITH

JAMES HANLEY RHA

SYMPOSIUM

Venue: Raheen House HotelDate:Thur 9th Fri 10th July (two day event)Times: 10:30am-3pm

A two day gathering of Youth Artists, Youth Arts workers and Youth Arts funding agents.

Guest speakers will include Gavin Stride (Farmling Maltings, UK), Kylie Lloyd (Director of Participation, Northern Stage, Newcastle, UK) and Katie Lowry (Creative Europe Ireland Culture Office).

For more information and booking please contact David or Claire info@junctionfestival.comLast year Junction Festival hosted a mini symposium focusing on youth

arts engagement. This year, Irish and international delegates with an interest in developing and sustaining cross border relationships with a focus on youth arts will gather to share knowledge and ideas and build on the work started in 2014.

Connecting Across Borders, which is being run in collaboration with the Creative Europe Desk Ireland Culture Office, will attempt to offer those who have a desire to build international partnerships some insight into how this is achieved and what the challenges are.

CONNECTING ACROSS BORDERSTHE RICHNESS & CHALLENGES OF BUILDING &

SUSTAINING CROSS-BORDER NETWORKS

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MUSIC/JAZZ

Venue: Marlfield ChurchDate: Sat 4th JulyTime: 9pmAdmission: 16

A Fourth of July celebration and dedication to iconic jazz artist Billie Holiday on the centenary of her birth.

Edel Meade has what it takes. Remember the name. Youll be hearing it again. The Sunday Independent

An undoubtedly beautiful voice... All About Jazz

Performing her own interpretations of Holidays music the award-winning vocalist and songwriter Edel Meade, a Clonmel native now based in Dublin, will be joined by her band for this special Fourth of July celebration marking one of Americas finest musicians.

Edel has spent the past 12 months on tour with The Joni Project, performing sell-out shows of her unique interpretations of the music of Joni Mitchell across Ireland and Denmark.

MUSIC/WORLD

Venue: Clonmel Garden Centre -The Beeches RestaurantDate: Fri 10th July Time: 8pm dinner / 9pm concert Admission: Dinner and Concert 38 Concert only 18

Enjoy a taste of Morocco in this evening of Middle-Eastern cuisine and high-energy music in lush surroundings.

A sumptuous 2 course meal of Middle Eastern and North African delicacies including tagines, kefta, couscous, salads, spices, savouries and sweets.

Kasba is a nine piece band from Holland and Morocco who play a festive mix of North African inspired music that blends the hypnotic traditional rhythms of the nomadic Gnawa people with the contemporary urban rhythms of Ra, infused with some western rock and jazz influences. The result is a big fun happy sound that will bring a smile to your face and a swing to your hips.

Kasba combine musicality and energy in a fabulous and sparkling mix, reaching number one in Morocco with their hit Yama Bomba.

A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO LADY DAYSONGS AND STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF JAZZ AND BLUES LEGEND BILLIE HOLIDAY WITH EDEL MEADE

AND BAND

KASBA: AN EVENING OF ORIENTAL FLAVOURS

MUSIC AND CUISINE FROM MOROCCO

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MUSIC/ ROOTS

Venue: Raheen House HotelDate: Wed 8th July Time: 9pmAdmission: 18Seated concert Restricted seating

I Draw Slow are one of the most beguiling and singular acts currently on the circuit Irish Independent

A five-piece outfit comprising vocals, guitar, fiddle, banjo and double bass,Dublin roots band, I Draw Slow have been receiving enthusiastic reviews nationally since the release of their top 10 album Redhills.

Their impact has also been felt abroad, with Folk Radio UK describing them as American top league equivalents destined to blow the opposition away, drawing favourable comparisons with Gillian Welsh and Alison Krauss.

The band have created a new sound, rooted in the Appalachian Mountains, drawing on folk, roots, old-time, Irish traditional music and modern Americana.

This will be I Draw Slows second visit to Clonmel having performed a sell out concert as part of the Clonmel World Music Club in 2012.

MUSIC/WORLD

Venue: Raheen House HotelDate: Thur 9th July Time: 9pmAdmission: 18Seated concert Restricted seating

Argentinian tango singer Mariel Martinez and her group The Portea Tango Trio are one of the most sought after tango ensembles in Europe.

Mariel believes that Tango is a living, contemporary music, offering a sincere show with elegance, quality and away from old stereotypes of tango for tourists. In 2014 she was nominated for the 2014 Gardel Award (the most prestigious award in the music industry in Argentina) for her album Esos Otros Tangos

The title of her latest album Buenos AiresCuando lejos me vi is the first phrase of the first sound filmproduced in Argentina, back in 1931. The work is infused with the vast poetry of Argentine tango, rediscovered as a beautiful mystery in Mariels voice, dreaming of Buenos Aires from a distance.

I DRAW SLOW MARIEL MARTINEZ AND THE PORTEA TANGO TRIO

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MUSIC/GYPSY JAZZ

Venue: Donoughmore ClubDate: Tues 7th July Time: 8pmAdmission: 15Seated concert Restricted seating

Galway-based I Saw Stars have captured the spirit of Django Reinhardts legendary gypsy jazz ensemble, The Quintette de Hot Club and are part of a new generation that is reviving this hot acoustic music.

MUSIC/BLUES

Venue: Bakers BarDate: Wed 8th July Time: Doors 8pm Admission: 15

Locally based guitar legend Philip Donnelly makes his first appearance at Junction Festival with fellow bluesman Mick Pyro (lead singer with the Republic Of Loose).

Donnelly and Pyro will perform a variety of songs leaning towards the blues with a selection of tracks from Donnellys terrific recent releases, Beyond The Pale and Dreaming The Blues.

I SAW STARS

OCHY CALDERON Y OCHO PUNTO G

PHILIP DONNELLYWITH SPECIAL GUEST MICK PYRO

(REPUBLIC OF LOOSE)

MUSIC

Venue: Bakers BarDate: Sat 11th July Time: Doors 8pmAdmission: 20

Singer songwriter Mick Flannery makes a welcome return to Junction Festival. Voted Best Irish Male for his album White Lies at the 2009 Meteor Awards, Flannery later went platinum and was also nominated for the Choice Music Prize.

Mick is a songwriter of the first orderHis voice is pained, gravelly, and powerful. Recorded or live, it carries through and stops you in your tracks Urban Folk

MICK FLANNERY

ARTISTS

MUSIC/WORLD

Venue: Brewery Lane BarDate: Fri 3rd July Time: Doors 9pm Admission: 12

Ochy Calderon y Ocho Punto G is 5-piece band based in Barcelona, Spain, with members from Dominican Republic, Argentina, Venezuela, Columbia and Spain. Prepare for a lot of Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Cha-cha, Kizomba, Reggaeton and Fusion andget your dancing shoes ready for a fun For a fun opening night festival party with lots of infectious rhythms!

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MUSIC / TRAD

Venue: Bakers BarDate: Mon 6th July Time: Doors 9pmAdmission: 10

Rattle the Boards with Des Dillon will cook up a storm in this annual Junction Festival Monday night session plus, with a host of traditional favourites interspersed with a selection of songs and a special appearance or two from some of Des special friends.

RATTLE THE BOARDSWITH GUEST SPECIAL DES DILLON

MUSIC/BLUES

Venue: Bakers Bar Date: Fri 3rd July Time: Doors 9pm Admission: 5 on the door

MOJOd - Stompin Blues Band, takes you on an exhilaratingmusical journey through the many shades of the blues that have shaped popular music as we know it today.The band of Roger Mehta, Seamus Hayes, Val Whelan, Oreste Perillo and David Corbett bring influences from a diverse background in rock, country, funk & soul to deliver a night of heart aching, foot stompin, classic andmoderndayblues songs.

MOJOD

FRIDAY 3RD JULY

MORANSLegends: Playing an eclectic mix of 60s and 70s

THE COACHMANJust Billy: Likened to the great Joe Dolan with some great stories to tell.

SATURDAY 4TH JULY

LIAM DALYSHank Wedel: A welcome return to Dalys of American singer songwriter Hank Wedel.

MORANS The Business: One of Irelands finest blues bands.

BREWERY BAR @ MULCAHYSThe Wayheys: Clonmels favourite cover band with a night of classics from the last 40 years.

THE COACHMANPhoenix: Popular four piece band playing a modern mix of tunes

SUNDAY 5TH JULY

MORANSSin a Bhuil: Popular Trad and Folk group - guests welcome.

THE COACHMAN Mainstreet: Two piece Hanora and Noel return to The Coachman.

THURSDAY 9TH JULY

MORANSBarefoot: Roots music at its very best. A music lovers special..

FRIDAY 10TH JULY

MORANSFair Exchange: Performing their own songs and some well known covers

THE COACHMANWoodstock: Father and daughter combo playing a mix of 60s, 70s and 80s.

SATURDAY 11H JULY

DALYSAnna Mitchel and John Blek: A feast of country, folk and Americana favourites as well as some hidden gems.

MORANSRed Melody: A wide range of covers from all eras with their own style of big harmony sound.

THE COACHMANThe News: Likeable 5 piece band with 2 great singers

MUSIC TRAILMUSIC BEGINS BETWEEN 10PM AND 10.30PM. ADMISSION FREE

ARTISTS

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STREET ARTS/CIRCUS

Venue: Market PlaceDate: Sat 4th JulyTime: 2.30pmAdmission: Free

Babcock and Bobbins have performed all over Ireland, from Belfast to Ballina and from Coleraine to Cork.

A 50 minute circus show with a mix of slapstick comedy and circus skills including fire juggling, giraffe unicycle, stilt walking, rola bola and fire breathing.

And lots of audience participation

BABCOCK AND BOBBINS

STREET ARTS/CIRCUS

Venue: The Main GuardDate: Sat 11th JulyTime: 12pmAdmission: Free

FeaturingStan Ratchet,The Wobbly Circus Show combines slapstick comedy and clowning. With an emphasis on audience participation Stan brings spectators on a journey through mime, manipulationand circus skills building up to a high impact finale.

Prepare for the unexpected and prepare to be involved!

WOBBLY CIRCUS

Maggie Crosse Yoga Classes

Mon 6th - Fri 10th July, 10am each morning.Join Maggie in what promises to be a great way to start each day with yoga poses,

breathing practices and relaxation. Suitable for all levels.BRING A MAT AND A SMILE!

Maggie teaches yoga inClonmel and Tipperary Townand has many years of experience.Classes will re-commence in September

Ard Gaoithe Business Park,The Cashel Rd, ClonmelTel: Maggie 087 2869097www.maggieyoga.com

MUSIC/ENTERTAINMENT

Venue: Denis Burke ParkDate: Sat 11th JulyTime: 8.30pm 10.30pmAge suitability: 8+Admission: FreeFully supervised youth and family event with strictly no alcohol permitted

Local band The Drive will headline an evening of musical talent from the town. The event will finish with a fire show, Fire Storm by Inferno

As the night sets in, the power of untamed fire will be unleashed, turning the darkness into a glowing INFERNO.Fire Storm is a spectacular mix of theatre, circus, dance and pyrotechnics. Presented by three of Irelands foremost fire performers, this is an event that will ignite the imagination of the entire family.

MUSIC/ENTERTAINMENT

Venue: Raheen House Hotel GardensDate: Sun 12th July Time: From 2pmAdmission: FreeBarbecue lunch available from the hotel

The festival will return to the beautiful gardens of Raheen House Hotel for a relaxing afternoon with some music and other entertainment. Bring a blanket or your fold out easy chairs and enjoy the entertainment and a Raheen House barbecue lunch.

THE DRIVE & FIRE STORM

FINALE GARDEN PARTY

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Tales of romance, intrigue, frolics and fun await along the Butler Trail. Featuring Kings and Queens, Dukes and Earls, the Butlers stories will leave you wanting more.Venture along the winding River Suir valley, the backdrop to the Butlers 800 years legacy. Set in the romantic charming towns of Cahir and Carrick-on-Suir and the bustling town centre of Clonmel, the Butlers landmarks each have their own story to tell.Explore a house built for a queen at Ormond Castle! A romantic stroll along the river leads you to the hidden gem of Swiss Cottage! Spot the cannonball in the walls of Cahir Castle! Delight in a visit to the restored former courthouse at the Main Guard!

Follow in Butlers footsteps as you experience The Butler Trail! http://www.discoverireland.ie/thebutlertrail

Sunday 5th July | Powerstown Park

A Special Celebratory Day Out for all the Family.

Come early, enjoy the show and join in the fun

An exhibition exploring clonmels 150 year history, featuring live interactive workshops and many other surprises.Admission is freeAll are welcome

CLONMEL SHOWCelebrating 150 Years 1865 - 2015

Visit Tipperary County Museum(Mick Delahunty Square, Clonmel)

further information 0761 0655 52 or museum@tipperarycoco.ie

FURTHER INFORMATION 087 2460999 OR CLONMELSHOW.IE

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Plan A + Plan B Visual Arts 26 09.00-17.00 09.00-17.00 09.00-17.00 09.00-17.00 09.00-17.00 09.00-17.00 09.00-17.00 09.00-17.00 9.00-17.00

Clonmel Show Exhibition Heritage 40 10.00-16.45 10.00-16.45 10.00-16.45 10.00-16.45 10.00-16.45 10.00-16.45 10.00-16.45

Belonging(s) Exhibition/Live Art 16 11.00-19.00 11.00-19.00 11.00-19.00 11.00-19.00 11.00-19.00 11.00-19.00

James Hanley Lifedrawing Masterclass 28 10.00-18.00 10.00-17.00

Kevin Myers Talks 22 18.30

Songs of War and Peace Music 2 20.30

Ochy Caldern Music/World 34 Doors 21.00

Babcock and Bobbins Street Arts 38 14.30

Vitamin Family 13 16.00&19.00

Edel Meade - A Tribute to Lady Day Music/Jazz 30 21.00

Catalpa Theatre 6 20.00

Early Doors Theatre 4 20.30 20.30 20.30 20.30 20.30 20.30

Mojo'd Music/Blues 36 Doors 21.00

Near Gone Theatre 10 19.00 19.00

Dervla Murphy in conversation Talks 23 19.00

Connecting Across Borders Seminar 29 10.30-15.00 10.30-15.00

Rattle the Boards Music/Trad 36 Doors 21.00

forever young Theatre 14 10.00-17.00 10.00-17.00 10.00-17.00 10.00-17.00 10.00-17.00

I Saw Stars Music/Gypsy Jazz 34 20.00

Charolais Theatre 11 19.00 19.00 19.00

Philip Donnelly & Mick Pyro Music 35 Doors 20.00

I Draw Slow Music/Roots 32 21.00

Overture - The Bubble Show Children/Family 12 16.00 16.00 16.00

Marial Martinez & The Porteo Quartet Music/World 33 21.00

An Evening of Oriental Flavours/Kasba Food/Music/World 31 20.00/21.00

Deirdre O'Kane Comedy 25 Doors 20.00

Wobbly Circus Street Arts 38 12.00

McCourt & McNally on Trollope Talks 24 18.30

The Man in the Woman's Shoes Theatre 8 20.00

Mick Flannery Music 35 Doors 20.00

Family Fun by the River Children/Family 21 14.00-17.00

The Drive and Fire Storm Teen/Family 39 20.30

Festival Finale Garden Party Family 39 14.00-17.00

2015 FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE

Please note times given are performance times unless otherwise stated. Venues open 30 minutes before the performance

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Brendan DalyFiona GrassickBess HughesAisling Kilroy (Chair)David KirwinCathal ODonoghue Cecily Purcell Michael Murphy

STAFF

Artistic Director: David TeevanCompany Manager: Claire LaytonPR and Media: Ronan QuinnArtist Liaison: Manon Riouat and Kate TwohigProduction Manager: Colin EverittMedia Intern: Thomas Lonergan

SUPPLIERS

Photographer: John D. KellyGraphic Designer: EmaginePrinters: Lion PrintAccountants: Gilligan and Co

VENUE PARTNERS

Raheen House HotelOKeeffes/Hearns HotelBakers Bar

Morans BarMulcahys Hotel and BarClonmel Garden Centre

The Main GuardHillview Tennis Club

MEDIA PARTNERS

Nationalist Tipp FM South Tipp Today

Aiden Maher & Eileen HeneghanBarry WalshChadwicksDr Molly OwensDr Niall ColwellEavaun Carmody

FieldmasterClonmel Garden CentreClonmel WasteGerard & Marie OSullivanLionprintMaher Plant HireMedite

Morans BarPhil Carrolls Antique BarThe Narrow SpaceROCG IrelandSilverwoodSupermacs

FRIENDLY BEES

Artisan FramesBabylon, IrishtownBergins Fine FoodBess & Trevor HughesBill & Noberta OGormanBob Fitzgerald HardwareBrendan DalyCatalpa RestaurantCartridge WorldCatrina SheridanCecily PurcellChristy & Fiona GrassickClonmel Glass & MirrorsClonmel OilClonmel TravelCollier Sheehan AccountantsCorcraCurtains & BlindsDiarmuid TeevanD McGrath & M BranniganDowlings StationaryDr Paud & Leah OReganEddie & Sareen MeeganEmperor Palace

Ethel ReynoldsEurotechFBD InsuranceFidelma MorrisForget Me NotCarole and Thomas HennessyHickeys Bakery and CafJack SomersJim & Kay FinnJim KeatingJo RoiceJohn Keating & Pat dArcyJohn D Kelly PhotographerLiam Dalys BarMargaret RossiterMarie OsbornMary St Medical CentreMatin ManseraghMcCarthys B&BMichael Murphy (Cllr.)Moroneys FootwareNick & Maud SheeNoreen Roche

OGormans PharmacyOReilly Hair Salon OShee Murphy SolicitorsOSullivans Insurances Patricia PrendivillePaul & Nell McCarthyQuirkes PharmacyRegula ChristenSam KingstonScott Ryan SolicitorsSpeciality Ireland ToursThe ButtermarketThe Honey PotTivoli CardsTJ & Maura Lyons VisionIDWestgate Antiques

GOLDEN APPLES

REGAL ORCHARDS

Binchy SolicitorsDennis SlizysJay Teevan

3rd-12th July

2015

HOW TO BOOKYou can book tickets for Clonmel Junction Festival 2015 in the following ways:

ONLINE:www.junctionfestival.com

BY PHONE:11am 6pm (Mon Sat from June 21)+353 (0) 52 612 8521 & +353 (0) 52 618 9315

IN PERSON FROM JUNE 20:Clonmel Junction Festival Box OceUnit 6 Market Place (beside the health food shop)

1 per ticket charge will be applicable to all credit card bookings Concession tickets available for Senior Citizens, Students,

Children (Under 12) and the Unwaged. Proof required. Please make special needs or seating requirements known to us

at time of booking. No late entry to theatre shows.

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