NI Farm Toy and Model Show
Magheraboy Hotel Friday April 14th 2pm - 10pm
Running since 2005 this biannual show showcases a fantastic variety of contemporary and older toy and model farm machinery. Suitable for kids of all ages. more info can be found by emailing info@nationalminitrac.com or phone 0773266502. Admission Adults £5 Children under 16 £1.
Coleraine and District Gardening Club
Annual Spring Flower Show
Saturday 15th April
Guide Hall Terrace Row Car Park Coleraine
This years show will be the 30th anniversary of this annual show. The show is on from 2pm - 4pm with classes for daffodils, cut flowers, pot plants ,cacti, succulents and floral art. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Monday 17th April 10:30 - 16:30
This event is now firmly established as being one of the most renowned craft fairs on the Causeway Coast, hosting a wide variety of outstanding quality crafts produced by local designer makers.
Portballintrae Village Hall is an excellent venue with spectacular panoramic views of the surrounding coastline and has a large car park to the front.
Free admission
The Causeway Coast Challenge Walk is a long distance walking event organised by the Bannside Ramblers based in North Antrim.The event is now in its 39th year of operation and last year was awarded the prize of "Best Walk Challenge Walk" by WalkNI.
Take part in the 30km walk along the rugged coastal path with outstanding sea views towards Rathlin Island and also many Scottish islands .
The event starts in Co Antrim at Portballintrae Village Hall with registration for participants strictly between 8.00am and 9.00am and the walk is to be completed by 5pm for successful walkers to receive a badge and certificate.
The route will be via the world famous Giant's Causeway and onwards along the spectacular cliff top path to Portbradden before turning and retracing our steps.
Entry fee is £6 for adults and £3 for children. Simply enter on the day.
Check out the WalkNI blog http://www.outdoorni.com/blog/2015/06/04/taking-on-the-causeway-coast-walk-challenge/ for a first hand account from one walking club who headed to the North Coast to take on the challenge in 2015
Walkers should carry their own food and water. Good walking shoes and clothing are essential in the event of adverse weather conditions.
With a voice that is as passionate as it is raw and honest, accompanied by simple, melodic and well phrased guitar lines, this is what you have in Grainne Duffy. Having worked with Nico Bolas (Neil Young, Los Lobos & Keith Richards) , 2016 sees her back in the US recording with producer Justin Stanley (Beck, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow) . Her new single which was produced by Michael Keeney, producer of Foy Vance, is an acoustic driven roots pop song with a worldly feel. It features the
‘She’s the real deal’ Classic Rock Magazine
‘A blues singer of real integrity’ The Sunday Times
‘Deliciously soulful voice & gutsy blues inflected guitar work in one compelling package’ Guitarist Magazine doors 9.30 adm £9
Band Members
Dominican College Portstewart Gala Dinner
Tullyglass Hotel Ballymena
Friday 21st April
This is a gala evening to celebrate 100 years of Dominican education in Portstewart. Staff, pupils, past pupils, parents and friends of Dominican are invited to a four course meal with wine and a champagne reception. There will be live music, a raffle and an auction. Ticket cost is £50 and special tables can be purchased.
Big Theatre Telly Company
Presents
FRIDAY 21ST AND SATURDAY 22ND APRIL, NIGHTLY AT 8PM
NI's oldest established professional theatre company presents its latest production
Adapted by Zoë Seaton & Shelley Atkinson
Directed by Zoë Seaton
Music by Garth MacConaghie
Based on the book ‘The Faerie Thorn and Other Stories’ by Jane Talbot, The Faerie Thorn will recreate Talbot’s dark, imaginative and bewitching tales, propelling the audience into a world of devilish debts, trysts and trades, broken bargains and unjust trials; of magic, quick-wittedness, hoodwinking and revenge.
The stories inhabit an incredibly vivid and dangerous world controlled by a complex fairy mafia including factions like the memory takers, the time keepers, the bad talkers and trolls, which humans tackle at their peril.
Over the past thirty years, Big Telly has carved a reputation as bold, risk-taking theatre maker, and The Faerie Thorn production will be a vibrant, contemporary, physical theatre, incorporating masks, movement and illusion. The Faerie Thorn will be witty, dark and wickedly comedic dealing with inexorable human tensions in a way that is shocking and yet terrifyingly familiar.
Age Suitability: 14 years +
Tickets are £13 & £10 and can be purchased from the Box Office.
Portrush Music Society
Presents
Friday 28th April to Saturday 6th May
MATINEE PERFORMANCES AT 2PM AND NIGHTLY PERFORMANCES AT 8PM
Directed and produced by Kerry Dunn, this is PMS's latest blockbuster production and the first time in which Riverside has hosted this show
The Portrush Music Society GIRLS ARE BACK IN TOWN!
FRIENDSHIP, GOSSIP,POISON,MURDER..THESE GIRLS HAVE ALL THE FUN
Award winning Portrush Music Society again brings you the incredible 9 to 5 The Musical.
This hilarious new musical comedy is based on Dolly Parton's amazing hit movie that centres on three office workers who turn the tables on their sexist boss. Featuring original numbers from Dolly Parton's Oscar, Tony® and Grammy Award nominated score, 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL is about teaming up and taking care of business.
Tickets can be purchased from the Box Office.
Causeway Coast Challenge Walk
Portballintrae Sunday 30th April 0800 - 17:00
The Causeway Coast Challenge Walk is a long distance walking event organised by the Bannside Ramblers based in North Antrim.The event is now in its 39th year of operation and last year was awarded the prize of "Best Walk Challenge Walk" by WalkNI.
Take part in the 30km walk along the rugged coastal path with outstanding sea views towards Rathlin Island and also many Scottish islands .
The event starts in Co Antrim at Portballintrae Village Hall with registration for participants strictly between 8.00am and 9.00am and the walk is to be completed by 5pm for successful walkers to receive a badge and certificate.
The route will be via the world famous Giant's Causeway and onwards along the spectacular cliff top path to Portbradden before turning and retracing our steps.
Entry fee is £6 for adults and £3 for children. Simply enter on the day.
Check out the WalkNI blog http://www.outdoorni.com/blog/2015/06/04/taking-on-the-causeway-coast-walk-challenge/ for a first hand account from one walking club who headed to the North Coast to take on the challenge in 2015
Walkers should carry their own food and water. Good walking shoes and clothing are essential in the event of adverse weather conditions.
Registration on the day. For details see the website.
For more information about Causeway Challenge Walk - 2017, click here.
The Foley Hucks is an explosion of Blues and Rock, here for a good time, and a long time.
Alternative Indie / Folk / Rock
McCullagh, from the Gaelic 'Mac Cu Ulaidh' meaning Son of The Hound of Ulster.
Son of The Hound sings songs and writes stories
Grainne Duffy
Paul Sherry
Gavin Taylor
Paul Mc Cabe
Atlantic Bar Live Music
Monday 17th April
McCullagh, from the Gaelic 'Mac Cu Ulaidh' meaning Son of The Hound of Ulster.
Son of The Hound sings songs and writes stories
Saturday 22nd April
Grainne Duffy
Grainne Duffy
Paul Sherry
Gavin Taylor
Paul Mc Cabe
Grainne Duffy is a contemporary blues based artist hailing from Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan.
Described by The Sunday Times as ‘a blues singer of real integrity’, Grainne Duffy is a pioneer of her own style while also paying sincere homage to her roots, soul, blues and rock traditions. She is a seasoned artist and has been spending the last number of years touring in Europe, Scandinavia, Canada and beyond. Some highlights thus far have included 3 performances at Glastonbury Festival, Phuket Festival in Thailand, Notodden Festival, Norway and Dark Season Festival in Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle. This year she has been invited to play some leading international festivals including Tremblant Festival in Canada, Blues du Passions, France and Tanjazz in Morocco. Soon to release her eagerly awaited third album to follow the success of her debut roots album and her second album which weaved together her contemporary influences with her blues and soul roots. Her Live album recorded on tour in Germany, released earlier last year earned her a 9/10 review in Classic Rock sister magazine, The Blues Magazine, quoting ‘This sensational live album confirms Grainne Duffy’s formidable reputation’ , ‘few possess her killer combination of vocal strength, range and intensity, guitar virtuosity and ability to engage audiences’ ‘this is one of the best live CDs of 2015’.
With a voice that is as passionate as it is raw and honest, accompanied by simple, melodic and well phrased guitar lines, this is what you have in Grainne Duffy. Having worked with Nico Bolas (Neil Young, Los Lobos & Keith Richards) , 2016 sees her back in the US recording with producer Justin Stanley (Beck, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow) . Her new single which was produced by Michael Keeney, producer of Foy Vance, is an acoustic driven roots pop song with a worldly feel. It features the
‘She’s the real deal’ Classic Rock Magazine
‘A blues singer of real integrity’ The Sunday Times
‘Deliciously soulful voice & gutsy blues inflected guitar work in one compelling package’ Guitarist Magazine doors 9.30 adm £9
Friday 28th April
Sons of Burlap
Friday 28th April
Sons of Burlap
Band Members
Philip Burlap
Julian Burlap
Jonathan Burlap
Christopher Burlap
Rory Burlap
Ewen Burlap
Christopher Burlap
Rory Burlap
Ewen Burlap
Far back in the memory of old music lies a tradition fast and rhythmical, the sound of soaring and biting flute and fiddle propped up to a backdrop of relentless, driving percussion and bass. Danceable celebratory and at times mournful and lamenting. Music steeped in the ancient and forgotten folk sounds from hidden corners of Europe and beyond. That sound is Burlap! For many years this music was fostered and kept alive by its visionary and pioneer "Dr Burlap" and now with their spiritual leader and guide proudly carried with them the last remaining keepers and true figure heads of this musical journey have been found - The Sons of Burlap.
Sons of Burlap surfaced in late 2012. Sightings have been rare but future appearances have been rumoured. Few recordings are known and video evidence is mysterious. Do what you can to seek them out dear traveller, to know the Burlap is to truly know a spectacle, unique and timeless in our modern world.
Band Members
Brian Young - Lead vocals & Guitar, Liam Killen - Guitar & Backing Vocals, Bill Johnston - Bass and Backing Vocals, Louie Steele - drums
Hard boiled, no holds barred, no punches pulled, lowdown, white-knuckle, rockin' slop! A rockin' rollin' riot of untamed teenage thunder, sin, sex and savagery.
Duke Special (born Peter Wilson; January 4, 1971) is a songwriter and performer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A piano-based songwriter with a romantic style and a warm, distinctly accented voice, he has distinctive long dreadlocks, eyeliner and outfits he describes as "hobo chic". His live performances have a theatrical style inspired by Vaudeville and music hall, and often incorporate 78s played on an old-fashioned gramophone, or sound effects from a transistor radio.
(info courtesy of Wikipedia)
Sons of Burlap surfaced in late 2012. Sightings have been rare but future appearances have been rumoured. Few recordings are known and video evidence is mysterious. Do what you can to seek them out dear traveller, to know the Burlap is to truly know a spectacle, unique and timeless in our modern world.
Saturday 29th April
Band Members
Brian Young - Lead vocals & Guitar, Liam Killen - Guitar & Backing Vocals, Bill Johnston - Bass and Backing Vocals, Louie Steele - drums
Hard boiled, no holds barred, no punches pulled, lowdown, white-knuckle, rockin' slop! A rockin' rollin' riot of untamed teenage thunder, sin, sex and savagery.
Sunday 30th April
Duke Special
Sunday 30th April
Duke Special
Duke Special (born Peter Wilson; January 4, 1971) is a songwriter and performer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A piano-based songwriter with a romantic style and a warm, distinctly accented voice, he has distinctive long dreadlocks, eyeliner and outfits he describes as "hobo chic". His live performances have a theatrical style inspired by Vaudeville and music hall, and often incorporate 78s played on an old-fashioned gramophone, or sound effects from a transistor radio.
(info courtesy of Wikipedia)
