Holy bank holiday! No work allowed this weekend - get your summer on and avoid all your responsibilities with these choice cultural happenings!
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DUBLIN: Snow White, Civic Theatre, April 28 - 29
2017 marks the 21st Anniversary of Irish National Youth Ballet. To celebrate this milestone, INYB will perform Snow White, as well as String Variations and Before the bell rings. All ballets will be performed with the INYB orchestra, under conductor Brian Dungan.
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WATERFORD: Rusangano Family, St. Patrick's Gateway Centre, April 30
The 2017 Choice Music Prize winners stop off at Waterford this Sunday night. Mixing up various cultures and traditions in their engaged, heartfelt tunes, Rusangano Family are officially where it's at - the Limerick-based trio are one of the most powerful rap outfits to come out of Ireland, and one of the most energetic live acts in the country right now - be ready to jump!
CORK: Ballydehob Jazz Festival, various venues, April 28-May 1
Since 2007, this jazz festival run by volunteers who want to 'promote the arts and entertain the masses' includes more than 40 performances from a variety of eclectic jazz talents, from Lithuania's Home Jazz Band to Esteemed pianist/composer Antoni O’Breskey's Nomadic Piano Duo. Why a jazz festival in a little country village hidden in West Cork? Why not? This festival is indeed a unique and groovy one.
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LIMERICK: Riverfest Festival, various venues, April 28 - May 1
The lovely city of Limerick celebrates the river Shannon in style, with a smorgasbord of events: fashion, barbecues, watersports, running, and a cultural line-up that includes Rubberbandits, comics PJ Gallagher and The Nualas, punk legends Therapy? and epic post-rock outfit Overhead, The Albatross... We're talking something for everyone. Also: Fireworks!
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DERRY: City of Derry Jazz & Big Band Festival, April 27 - May 1
Two jazz festivals in one weekend? The City of Derry Jazz & Big Band Festival is back for the 16th year, featuring artists from all over the world; among the popular acts returning to the festival this year are the Red Stripe Band, the Jive Aces and Cat Scratch Fever, but the eal star turn is the mighty Imelda May, making her Millennium Fourm debut with a pair of headlining shows on 30th April and 1st May.
