Shorelines Arts Festival Portumna is a celebration of art and sculpture from local artists and guest artists, vintage machinery display, art talks and loads of other art events.

Shorelines Arts Festival will be bringing theatre, music, film, visual arts, and more to lakeside Portumna. The festival will run from September 14th – 17th, with the full action-packed programme.

Highlights:
Irish Folk Award winners Ye Vagabonds will take to the stage as well as the rock-infused hypnotic tones from Cathy Davey and her band in concert.

Audiences will be treated to a Gramophone Concert by Musician and broadcaster Peter Browne, they can tune into an afternoon of popular musical classics with ‘What a Wonderful World’ or croon along to the ‘Songs and Stories of Percy French’.

Theatre performances include the ever-popular Seamus O’Rourke with his latest show ‘The Ballad of Mossy Flood’ and newcomer Dee Keogh’s ‘Why I haven’t met Oprah, Yet?’.

For literary fans, we have ‘Western Words’ with poets Amy Barry, Noelle Lynskey and Luke Morgan, ‘A Century of Brendan’ celebrating Behan’s 100th birthday and ‘Invisible Threads’ with author, Marguerite MacCurtin.

Doire Press make a welcome return with ‘Sunday Stories & Tunes’ and a veritable feast of Visual Arts awaits you in the Galleries at both the Workhouse and Portumna Castle.

In addition, the festival will present a wide range of workshops, street entertainment, family entertainment, talks, a terrific schools programme, plus the welcome return of Shorelines film shorts and documentaries.

photo courtesy of Shorelines Arts Festival