Midwinter Fest will adapt and proceed

Music for Galway is continuing to prepare for its Midwinter Festival, Stanford, which will take place at the City’s Town Hall Theatre and St Nicholas Collegiate Church from Friday to Sunday, January 21-23.

However, following the most recent government guidelines, the times of several events have been rescheduled, concerts have been shortened and one extra concert has been added. This last measure will allow Music for Galway to present the full programme that it had originally planned, according to the organisation’s Executive Director, Anna Lardi.

“So much preparation has gone into this festival, there is an impressive cast ready to go ahead and it would be very difficult to get these artists together at another date,” she says. “The festival is meant to raise the spirits of everyone in the depths of winter and we are working hard with the Town Hall Theatre to make sure that it can go ahead safely for all.”

The Midwinter Festival celebrates Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924),  one of Ireland’s greatest composers who was hugely influential as a professor of composition in London in the early 20th century.

Five concerts, two talks and two documentary films will set Stanford’s life and work in context.  In-person tickets will be released one week before the start of the festival. A selection of concerts will also be available as a livestream and details of these will be released on January 5.

For updates, go to musicforgalway.ie.