Thursday 01th February 2024
Location: Cleeres Bar and Theatre, 28 Parliament Street, Kilkenny
Lifting the Gate is a storytelling performance poetry and music show.
“Impossibly detailed worlds about people and place are revealed in tight verses wrapped in warm violin strings by Lily Brodie-Hayes” Ben MacCaoilte has taken Lifting the Gate to venues across Ireland,the UK and Europe including Smock Alley Scene and Heard, Cork World Book Fest, Ó Bhéal, Power of Words Festival,Dr. Martin Shaws Medicine House Tour, Stephen James Smith So Say So Sessions with Basciville, The Bath Festival UK and the Culturel Centre Irlandais in Paris as well as Guest Poet at Spoken Word Paris. Ben had the pleasure of supporting for Declan O Rourke on his Irish Tour 2023.
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