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Dear Sligo, a special thanks to you this Christmas

We would like to take a moment to say thank you for your continued support and readership of SligoEvents.ie throughout 2011. What started as a small blog in 2009,  sharing proudly online what Sligo has to offer, has now reached 100,000 readers this year. We’ve posted nearly 700 events posts since we began and we’re now connected to over 2,000 people on Twitter @SligoEvents and just broaching 2k on Facebook. (G’wan, give us a like..!). That’s nearly 4,000 people who love hearing about what’s happening in Sligo!

We would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to the artists, music makers, crafts people, galleries, curators and all those who make everything happen in County Sligo and especially to you for reading and sharing our posts.

This year we loved the new Craftfest Northwest that brightened up Sligo during winter, we were wowed by the new surf videos from our neighbour Peter Clyne showcasing the massive waves off Sligo beaches, and we adored the new ‘Sligo Sets Your Spirit Free’ brand developed by Sligo Tourism (pictured above).

Exciting Developments this year: 

  • Throughout 2011, we worked with Sligo Arts Service as editor of SligoMusic.ie, the new online home for music in Sligo.
  • In August we gave a Social Media workshop to 30 musicians and music professionals at The Model as part of the Sligo Music Working Forum.
  • We started a new site, Digital Sligo, promoting digital and technology news. We’re very much looking forward to getting stuck in to this in 2012.
  • We are helping to promote The Swap Sessions, a night of fashion and fundraising in Shells next Wednesday December 28th.

In 2012, we look forward to new developments at SligoEvents.ie, new partnerships and of course our favourite festivals Só Sligo Food & Cultural Festival (new dates May 18th – 20th), Sligo Live (Oct 24th – 29th).

A special thanks to Tara McGowan at The Model and Kates Kitchen, Castle Street for supporting our competitions throughout the year.

Email us your events news at our new email: hello@sligoevents.ie

Happy Christmas from SligoEvents.ie


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Mon 19th Dec: Sing for Simon – Annual Carolathon at Tesco Shopping Arcade

Sing for Simon, the Annual Carolathon will be held at the Tesco Shopping Arcade in Sligo on Mon 19th Dec.

If you would like to give an hour or two of your time to sing, play an instrument or “shake a bucket” please contact Mary on 087 7708865. Christmas is a time of giving so please lend a helping hand to those less well off this Christmas.

Thank you to St. Marys Youth Choir & Urseline School Choir for putting their names forward to sing on Dec 19th for The North West Simon Community.

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Fionn Regan at The Model, Sligo, Saturday July 16th

Fionn Regan is a difficult man to pin down musically. Just two albums into an extremely promising career, this sublimely gifted singer-songwriter has already demonstrated a staggering lack of regard for following the rules.

Regan’s calling card was the beautiful Mercury-nominated The End Of History which included songs such as ‘Be good or be gone’ and ‘Put a penny in the slot’. Rather than follow it up with more of the same pastoral loveliness, he made The Shadow of an Empire, and with it didn’t so much flaunt convention, as trample all over it to produce a collection every bit as beguiling as its predecessor, but bursting with more ideas and sounds than some acts have in a lifetime. We await his next album due in early August with bated breath. In the meantime, be one of the first to hear some brand new material, and enjoy a special solo acoustic performance from one of the most mercurial musical talents around.

Don’t miss this unforgettable evening Saturday July 16th at 8pm.

Tickets €15 are available through www.themodel.ie or by calling 071 9141405

‘Regan can be sassy and scruffy, or quiveringly sincere, but he’s never uninteresting’ The Guardian

‘Likened to a young Bob Dylan by those lost for a better way to describe a talented singer-songwriter-His   material certainly stands up to the test’ Mail on Sunday


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Sligo short film ‘…for peace comes dropping slow…’ to be screened at W.B. Yeats Society of New York next week

The Sligo short film ‘…for peace comes dropping slow…’ is to be screened next Monday June 13th at 6pm, at a celebration of W.B. Yeats’s 146th birthday at the W.B. Yeats Society of New York in the National Arts Club, Gramarcy Park, New York City.

In July, the short film will also screen as an Official Selection at the New Hope Film Festival(NHFF), Pennsylvania on Saturday July 16th. The festival’s chairman Doug Whipple commented that “…for peace comes dropping slow…” is the first Irish film to screen at NHFF , and said “You’re breaking new ground for Ireland at our festival, and I should add that your blend of poetry, nature and peace is a fine tribute to your country”. The film will screen at the state-of-the-art Stephen S. Busk Memorial Theatre at New Hope.

Conceived and directed by Sligo-based artist Lisa Vandegrift Davala and commissioned by the Arts Office, Sligo County Council, the film was shot at a number of Sligo locations during the summer of 2010.

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Retro rock n’ roll & vintage american at McGarrigles, Wed May 25th

The Red-Hots, Sligo’s hottest rockabilly outfit- playing retro rock-n-roll and vintage American dance hall boogie!

Featuring a rhythm section of Jaimie Carswell and Tony Travers (ex-Wurlitzer), Seannan Brennan (from Kila) on guitar, and frontman Wayne O Connor (legend). Come on you Hepcats and Betties, agitate the gravel and goose it down to McGarrigles, get your two-tones on and get ready to jive! It’ll be totally antsville!

Playing in McGarrigles on Wednesday 25th May, 9.30pm, Admission free.

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