Boyle Arts Festival 2023

Launching Boyle Arts Festival 2023 will be a spectacular collaborative parade, celebrating this year’s theme of “connections”. It will feature dancers from Victoria Walker Dance School, musicians from Music Generation and members of the ICA Boyle who have also assisted in the costuming for the dance troupe. This intergenerational collaboration will be a visual feast, […]

Singskool Classes Beat Buddy Babies Designed and delivered by music education experts. Beat Buddy Babies is a unique opportunity for parents and carers to share a joyful musical learning experience with their babies and toddlers. Each class is uniquely designed to incorporate lots of different genres of music, movement, clapping, tapping, dancing and instruments and […]

Curators tour of Exhibition Fri 21st, 11am, King House FREE (BOOKING ADVISED) LIMITED NUMBERS, DURATION 40 MINS A Walking and Talking Tour of Exhibition Highlights with curator and artist Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh graduated in 2001 from Fine Art Painting at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Ní Mhaonaigh is widely considered one of […]

Singskool Classes Mini Melodies A unique childhood music experience with fun packed interactive classes. Games & activities will have your child singing, dancing, playing instruments, conducting, exploring early music literacy & performing. Age suitability OVER 2.5 years (minimum age 31 months) to 6 years Date: Friday 21st July & Saturday 22nd July Time: 11.00 – […]

Anita Han (13) and Ryan Keogh (12), both study the piano at TUDublin Conservatoire of Music and Drama with Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin and the cello at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with Miriam Roycroft. They began their piano duet collaboration in 2018 and since then, they have achieved remarkable success at both international and national piano […]

€5 (including booking fee) Buy Now RTE Junior TV star Jay Ryan (“Living with a Fairy”) presents a new twist on the classic fairy tale favourite, “The Musicians of Bremen town” by The Brothers Grimm. Jay Ryan has worked and performed in festivals and theatres across Ireland including: The Birr Scriptwriters Festival, Watergate Theatre Kilkenny, Baboró […]

€20 (including booking Fee) (Price includes bus ticket) Buy Now Frank Tivnan a renowned local historian will take his patrons on a three hour bus journey. As it is a mystery tour we cannot provide any further insight to what Frank has in store. We can only say that this is a very popular event […]

FREE (booking advised) LIMITED NUMBERS, Duration 40 mins A Walking and Talking Tour of the Exhibition Highlights led by artist Anna Spearman Anna Spearman is currently working between Sligo and Dublin and has recently been artist in residence at The Harrington Studios, King House. Spearman’s practice explores how sculptural objects, the space around them and the viewer […]

€10 (including Booking Fee) Book Now Since his debut at last year’s Festival, 12-year-old pianist Lenny Chen from Boyle has had a busy and successful year, winning in competition in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Newpark Festival in Dublin and the prestigious New York Young Performers Prize (NYYPP). Shortly after this year’s concert, […]

€10 (including booking fee) Buy Now The Importance of being Irish A light-hearted, whimsical look at the character and temperament of the Irish people using our folklore, our history, our songs, our stories and our literature.  The show will earnestly and heroically attempt to answer such searching and near-impossible questions as: Where did we come […]

€10 Buy Now Dramatising the real-life story of Ann Lovett, a 15-year-old girl who died in childbirth in a grotto in Granard, Co. Longford in 1984, Ciaran Creagh’s film revisits a tragedy that shook the nation to its core. Ann (Zara Devlin) prepares for the imminent arrival of her baby.  She has managed to conceal […]

Family Day in The Pleasure Grounds – FREE Come along and join in an afternoon shared with your family. Your children can join in with Mud Bugs as Jess from Mudbugs will provide fun creative activities that will engage children with the magic of nature and the surrounding areas. Come and create a memory and […]

Silent Disco The Pleasure Grounds, 2.30 – 5.30pm, €5 Silent Disco offers two DJ channels at the same time. You can listen to channel A or B, each with its own music, played by a DJ. The best part is that you never know what the next person will hear in front of or behind […]

Ticket Price: Free (as part of the Family Day) Mud Bugs provides nature based, educational workshops for children of all ages in Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands and beyond. We aim to connect children and families with nature in a way that encourages confidence, builds self-esteem and promotes a lifelong love of learning and nature. Our workshops […]

€10 (including Booking Fee) Book Now The Men Who Knew Too Much play a superb mix of jazz, country- blues, western swing and folk. Not only do they perform classic songs from the likes of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Randy Newman, Tom Waits and Carole King, there are also […]

€15 (including Booking Fee) Book Now With an exciting blend of eclectic fiddle and guitar music, Zoë Conway and John Mc Intyre bring to the stage sympathetic arrangements of traditional Irish music, compositions and songs, old and new.  The husband and wife folk duo possess a rare facility to draw pieces into their repertoire from […]

FREE concert in the Grounds of king House Come along and enjoy free music by the Sligo Concert Band and buy your lunch with flavours from around the world.