Congratulations to Saramay Walsh, Ballybrahee, Glenmore, a Transition Year student at Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School, Rosbercon, who received an award for over-all Senior Runner-up at the Wexford Student Enterprise Programme Awards. Saramay’s prize was for her mini company ‘200 Year Handcrafted Slates...
Events
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival hits new high notes for 2022
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival hits new high notes for 2022
The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival (BVOF), Ireland’s unmissable summer opera, is returning on a high note for seven magical days from 31st of May to the 6th of June 2022. The festival, which attracts more than 3,000 people to Waterford and the Blackwater Valley region each year, has embarked on an even bigger...
WLR’s Big Breakfast Little Stories creator nominated for New York Festivals Radio Award
WLR’s Big Breakfast Little Stories creator nominated for New York Festivals Radio Award
Waterford-born broadcaster and journalist Karen Tomkins has been shortlisted at the international 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards. Karen is a finalist in the ‘Best Children/ Young Adult Program’ category for her series of children’s audio stories – Big Breakfast Little Stories on WLRfm. The Radio Awards received...
Praise for Waterford in address to City Hall
Praise for Waterford in address to City Hall
Justine Dwyer Waterford is a city of promise and hope for the future declared the Prince of Wales speaking at a mayoral reception in his honour in City Hall last week. Prince Charles continued that Ireland was a country that means more to the royal couple than he could possibly say. Addressing those present in the...
Waterford showcased to Royals
Waterford showcased to Royals
Justine Dwyer Blue skies and unseasonably warm temperatures heralded the arrival of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall to Waterford last Thursday when they were welcomed by locals who lined the streets. As the city basked in glorious sunshine, the Royal couple took full advantage of the good...
Mad Ferrit at Theatre Royal – A Wild Saturday Night Beer Supernova
Mad Ferrit at Theatre Royal – A Wild Saturday Night Beer Supernova
Liam Murphy Fans and friends gathered for the show in the Theatre Royal with the ace Waterford Oasis tribute band – Mad Ferritt. People were hyper and happy as they greeted friends they might not have seen in years. The anticipation was fizzing, and the band, augmented by three string players, two brass and a...
City gears up for Royal visit
City gears up for Royal visit
Justine Dwyer Rumours are rife this week that Waterford is gearing up for a royal visit from the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall on March 24th- despite no confirmation being forthcoming from the British Embassy or Waterford City & County Council. However, several local councillors confirmed that they had...
BVOF/RIAM Next Generation Awards
BVOF/RIAM Next Generation Awards
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and the Royal Irish Academy of Music have announced a transformative new music prize to support the studies of two Masters students every year at Ireland’s National Music Conservatoire. The largest bursary of its kind in Ireland, the BVOF/RIAM Next Generation Awards will select...
Opera hits new high notes for 2022- Free open-air recitals and programmes for schools
Opera hits new high notes for 2022- Free open-air recitals and programmes for schools
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival – Ireland’s Summer Opera Festival – returns for 2022 with Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice -conducted by Peter Whelan and directed by David Bolger, from 31 May – 6 June in Lismore, Co. Waterford. This year’s opera production will feature new artistic collaborations with the acclaimed Irish...
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing (February 7th to 12th)
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing (February 7th to 12th)
The countdown is on to this year’s Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing which opens on Monday next in Waterford and online and continues until Saturday, February 12th. Well features an inspirational line-up of fun, free, inventive and sociable arts events for all ages. Early highlighs include Doodling for Wellbeing...
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations set to return to Waterford
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations set to return to Waterford
Following a two year hiatus Waterford City and County Council is delighted to announce that March 2022 will see the return of the much loved and dearly missed St. Patrick’s Day Parade. While official celebrations were postponed due to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, the most anticipated event on the national calendar is...
WELL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND WELLBEING 2022
WELL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND WELLBEING 2022
Fancy a lift?, Doodling for Wellbeing and Small Acts, Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2022 programme has been launched with the Festival running ffrom Monday, February 7th to Saturday, February 12th. Well features an inspirational line-up of fun, free, inventive and sociable arts events for all ages. In this,...
