Taproot, the winter festival which runs on Sunday afternoons at the Heritage Centre from October to March, finished this year in June with a performance of an original play by Jennifer Baker from the Lismore Primary School children. The 2023/4 festival was very wide...
October 2022 to March 2023 On the first Sunday of every month from October to March 22/ 23, 6 talented artists performed an ‘intimate gig’ in the museum room starting around 6.45pm. Fraser Bruce 2.10.22 renowned folk singer and author Brian Hughes 5.11.22Award...
On Sunday 14 August 2022 we were delighted to welcome back Finlay Hay (guitar) and his Taproot ensemble of young musicians: Mari-Carmen Morris, violin, from Spain Can Aristoy, keyboard, from Turkey – pronounced Jan in Turkish, and Hattie MacGregor, cello, from the...
Lismore's Music and Literature Festival 2019 was blessed with great weather and wonderful performances. But most of all with professional planning and organising. Behind the scenes Jennifer Baker and Memory McDonald worked with too many volunteers to list. Great...
Taproot began in 2017 as a 3 day Festival of literature and music subtitled - the wee festival that digs deep. It ran from Friday 14 to Sunday 17 September. The plan was to have it every 2 years. The programme was ambitious. Marianne Pallister opened the...