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WHETHER it is comedy or classical music, there is something for everybody at Glor this autumn.
Comedian Pat Shortt will bring his brand new show “You Won’t Get Away With That Here” to Ennis.
It will run from November 3-5. Des Bishop will also be dropping by as will Irish comedian Connor Gallen who will appear on September 1.
For the past 4 years, Glor has attract- ed some of the top names in the music industry to Ennis.
This autumn is no different.
One of America’s foremost singer songwriters John Prine will play Glor on November 11.
Other big names to appear will be Damien Dempsey, John Spillane, Flook, and Bell X1.
Highly rated Dublin outfit “the Gug- genheim Grotto’ will perform their first headline show in Glor in September.
Clive Barnes will join veteran per- former Freddie White on September 2.
The inimitable Furey Brothers featur- ing Davey Arthur, Grada and Noelie McDonnell complete an eclectic musi- oF bDatest lop
Classical tastes will also be catered for with an extensive musical progamme.
Flautist Carol McGonnell will be joined by pianist Finghin Collins and
Catherine Leonard on the violin in Sep- tember.
Ballet Ireland return in November, when they perform “Diaghiliev and The Red Shoes’ as a tribute to Ballet Russe.
One of the highlights of the program me is sure to be a performance by U.K. theatre company ‘Fidget Feet’ on Sep- tember 2.
Combining elements of circus, dance and aerial acrobatics, it promises to be a dazzling display.
The simmering tensions of New Or- leans will be brought to the stage when the Keegan theatre group perform “A Streetcar Named Desire” in late Sep- tember.
Clare-based theatre group ‘Brion- gloid’ open the theatre season with ‘Failte Romhat a Mhairtin’ and “Dun na mBan tri Thine’.
Other highlights include, London Classic Theatre’s production of Hugh Leonard’s “Love in the Title’ and Blue Raincoat Theatre Company’s “the Bald Soprano’.
Glor’s ever-popular film club, returns on September 18.
As always the programme includes the very best in English and foreign lan- guage cinema.
The season kicks have with ‘My Sum- mer of Love’ and continues with *Vodka Lemmon’ and slick Hungarian thriller, ‘Kontrol’.