Professional Development for Art Teachers Artist-Teacher-Researcher/ Winter Session 2025 Friday 3rd January 9.00am-2.15pm   Highlanes Gallery, the municipal art gallery for Drogheda and the North East is situated in the heart of the Boyne Valley, and close to Brú na Bóinne and Newgrange, which has some of the finest examples of megalithic art in Western […]

With Christmas Eve in view reflect the seasonal values of generosity, gratitude, peace & joy with this incredible & enduring choir. Let the sublime sounds of St Peter’s Male Voice Choir unlock wonder and pure joy to mark the beginning of Christmas week and the close of 2024. Informal seating with complementary tea and coffee, […]

El Salvadorian guitarist Mike Rivas with Brazilian musicians-guitarist Gaudiê Otero, singer-songwriter Sara Yamit & cellist Eugênio Biondi.   About: El Salvadorian guitarist Mike Rivas was born in Santa Tecla, estate of La Libertad, El Salvador, Central America, as a young boy Mike used to hear his father playing songs with an old guitar at home. […]

Children’s voice fill the atmospheric gallery space, sharing festive songs that is sure to lift the spirits and offer hope and joy, Friday December 30th, at 11am. The Choir of St Brigid’s and St Patrick’s School Sing in the Season This dynamic school has always valued children’s creative voices across the arts and have sung […]

STAND UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL   Shine a Light on Equal Rights For All   Drogheda Creative Writers will be celebrating International Human Rights Day on Wednesday 11th December at 3pm-4.45pm. Poets and writers will read poems and reflections on human rights and justice for all where all people are treated equally, with […]

Saturday 7th December 2024, 2 – 3:30pm Featuring some of the finest local voices in the region, the Tredagh Singers, a mixed-voice choir, will perform a seasonal recital of Old English and Irish Song, and promises to be a treat for the senses.   The session will take place in the Lower Gallery within John […]

Saturday 23rd November 2pm-3.30pm   This concert presents Réalta for the first time within the choral landscape for the first time in a solo capacity.   The music has been chosen to showcase choral music for upper voices from the Renaissance era through to the 21st century. It will journey through sacred and folk music […]

ANCIENT POEMS COME TO LIFE Drogheda Creative Writers Friday 15th November at 11am.   “They leap into our minds as real people, joyful and hurting, as we listen to their poems, these farmers and ladies, monks and bards, who lived so long ago,” says Roger Hudson of his montage of ancient Irish poems Dawn of […]

Boyne Trad Fest presents a Culture Night performance two of the most exciting ‘voices’ in contemporary trad within Highlanes Gallery.   Set within Embracing Vision: FNCI 100 Years, we are delighted to welcome Boyne Tradfest return this year with an Irish Traditiinal Music Recital performed by Martha Guiney (flute) and Ruairí Cunnane (guitar).   About […]

Join us for a truly unique traditional recital as All-Ireland Champions, Sárán Mulligan & Muirine Nic Roíbín perform.   Traditional music’s talented duo – Dundalk concertina player Sárán Mulligan and Wicklow fiddle & clarinet player Muirine Nic Roíbín, perform together within the gallery   Both finely tuned their musical skills under the direction of the […]