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PARENTS in east Clare need not worry about what to do with their children over the Bank Holiday week- end as the Feile Eile festival is back in Killaloe.
After the success of the inaugural festival last year, the people behind the Music in the Glen school, Boris Hunka and Diane Daly, decided to organise a second event and this year have made it bigger, better and, best of all, most events are free.
“It was a great success last year and we wanted to expand this year and have events where the children could perform for their parents as well as for other schools. We’ve been able to add quite a few events this year so we really hope that people will come out and support it,” said Diane.
The first big event of the festival is on Friday with the Schools Song Summit. Children from the seven lo- cal national schools will perform to each other before uniting to sing the Féile Eile anthem as a single choir from 10am to 11.30pm at Ballina Na- tional School Hall.
Saturday is the “Great Big Fun Day of Music, Drumming, Drama and Dance’ featuring four free workshops. Jenny Brown will be teaching the hot- test hip-hop and Bollywood moves. Kids will get to make lots of noise with Boris Hunka’s rare collection of big drums, Kathleen Turner of the Irish Chamber Orchestra will make singing fun and songwriting seem easy while Diane Daly uses Music in the Glen’s instruments, a medley of masks and participants’ imaginations to create a stunning new show on the spot. The workshops are from |lam- 4pm in the Kincora Hall Hotel. Pre- booking is essential on 087 2104583.
Also as part of the festival, cartoon favourite Bugs Bunny will meet the
Irish Improv Orchestra who will try to keep pace with Bugs as he deals with Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam and Porky Pig. This event event will take place at 6pm at Kincora Hall Hotel, NAP
On Sunday, there will be eerie sto- rytelling in the Bell chamber in the 10th-century cathedral of St Flan- nan’s (suitable for children aged five- plus). Times are lpm, 2pm and 3pm and it’s free. There’s a free blockbust-
er show featuring children from the performing schools on Sunday in St Annes School at 4pm and on Monday there’s a Haiku workshop in St Flan- nan’s at 2pm, run by local artist and writer Deirdre Grimes. Pre-booking is essential, call 086 2626525. Local author David Rice offers advice on writing at St Flannan’s Cathedral at 2pm. Again, pre-booking 1s essential, call 087 2104583.
To round off the Féile, musical leg-
ends and former performers with Stockton’s Wing, Tommy Hayes and Kieran and Mike Hanrahan, reunite in a special one-off show at 8pm on Monday in the Lakeside Hotel, tickets priced €22.