Kilkenny Arts Festival

J Spaceman is renowned as the driving creative force behind the pioneering drone/space rock band and now he returns to the Great Hall in Kilkenny Castle, with a solo performance. J Spaceman has been active with a host of free jazz players and improvisers. He provided much of the soundtrack to Harmony Korine’s film, Mr ...Lonely. He composed the original score for an art installation called Silent Sound by British artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. He released his second solo work: a collaboration with Matthew Shipp, entitled Spaceshipp last year.

Si Schroeder is a six-foot hairy male who makes 'music'. It has generally sounded like the combined contents of his record collection (mostly classic sixties pop, scratchy old ethnic recordings and the odd bleep or two). On top, he layers ruminative, whispered vocals about the tough times we all go through. His shows create a bridge between live electronics, guitars, drums, percussion, and the combined singing of men, women, children and machines.Read More

RTE's The Arts Show is coming to Kilkenny this Thursday 13th August to broadcast their whole show from and on the festival.

We're inviting you to come along and enjoy a free sneak preview of a whole host of festival treats during the broadcast of their show. You'll be treated to:
1. The irrepressible US legends Hazmat Mo...dine performing some tunes
2. Dirty Three's Mick Turner who has flown in a day early to play for us
3. Artist John Byrne (you might know his Last Supper piece in Wallace's Italian Quarter in Dublin) will perform a stand-up comedy routine on high art!
4. Every wonder what a lute sounds like? We'll have a lute performance to get you up to speed!
5. There'll be a panel discussion on visual art.
PLUS .....
6. Fingers crossed we'll have a PETER BROOK-directed performance of one of Shakespeare's love sonnets by Natasha Parry and Bruce Myers, as a preview to the opening night of Brook's LOVE IS MY SIN on Thursday evening.

All for the sum total of €0.00! Free! Read More