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There will be a very special concert to mark the completion of Kilkenny County Council’s city centre infrastructure project The Watergate Urban Park with renowned musician Jeremy Hickey of RSAG
The delights of free musical and singing entertainment will fill the heart of the city with music for all tastes and genres providing the best of local and regional acts to the public every weekend from here to Christmas.
The acts will perform in a new Yulefest Live Music Stage in Marquee space on the city’s Parade area in front of Kilkenny Castle and will cater for children and adults as they enjoy the Christmas Market and outdoor fairground rides.
Following an open-call, bands with at least one member born or currently based in Kilkenny were invited to apply for the 2025 line-up. Yulefest Kilkenny aims to support the local music and entertainment industry by offering opportunities for artists to perform live.
READ: YULEFEST SET TO TOUCH DOWN IN KILKENNY
Acts performing will include local stars Southern Fold, Broken Spokes, Burnchurch, Oracle Villa, the Uptown Band and the Pinsetters and they will be joined by Alize's School of Singing, Samba Katz, Bobbie Carey, Bench Warrant, Christmas Dance Party with Hannah Hoops, St Patrick's Brass & Reed Band, The Savage Jim Breen Band, Kilkenny Academy of Irish Dancing, Raindogs, Music Generation Kilkenny, Whiskers of Lichen, Spinc Comhaltas, Cois Nore Choir, Marmalade Jam, O'Connor Music, Craobh Osraí of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, McAliskey School of Irish Dancing, Phoenix Choir, Lady Desart Choir, Monroe Band, PDLS Trad Group, Seafall, Velvet Dynamites, Christmas Carols with Gwen Blanch & Hannah Hoops and MaryAnn and Band.
In addition there will be a very special concert to mark the completion of Kilkenny County Council’s city centre infrastructure project The Watergate Urban Park with renowned musician Jeremy Hickey of RSAG.
A storm of sound and an eruption of percussion mixed with hypnotic beats! Since its conception in 2007, musical juggernaut ‘Rarely Seen Above Ground’ has taken his tour de force: one man show of sound, visuals and incendiary rhythm, to captured audiences around the world.
Known to his friends as Jeremy Hickey, RSAG has gained a reputation not only as one of Europe’s most impressive drummers but as a celebrated producer and a talented showman. This show opens the new Watergate Urban Park in Kilkenny city as part of this year’s Kilkenny Yulefest.
This concert will be held on Friday, December 19 from 6pm to 7pm. Tickets are €10, with all proceeds to the instrument fund musical instruments for Music Generation Kilkenny. This special event is sponsored by Kilkenny County Council's Night time Economy Project.
More information on www.yulefestkilkenny.ie
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