Meanwhile, €200,000 has been allocated to Ballyshannon under the Heritage Council s Historic Towns Initiative.
It s the third year running that funding has been secured in Donegal ; last year saw a project supported in Ramelton, while in 2019, money was allocated to the ongoing regeneration of Church Lane in Letterkenny.
This year s Ballyshannon project will will see the council work with local property owners on the Mall and Main Street to conserve the historic built environment there. €200,000 has been allocated to the project.
Meanwhile, just over €642,000 has been confirmed for four arts centres in Donegal.
An Grianán Theatre receives €258,000, Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí receives just over €42,000, Earagail Arts Festival receives almost €191,000 and the Regional Culture Centre received €150,000.
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Jazz twins continuing series of online gigs
HUGELY talented Falcarragh twins Micheál and Conor Murray kept spirits up in the community and beyond with their popular weekly Facebook livestream from the Shamrock Lodge from October to December.
Funded the Donegal County Council in place of the cancelled third Falcarragh Winter Jazz Festival, they were joined by Armagh-born drummer David Lyttle, one of the island’s most celebrated instrumentalist, a MOBO Award nominee hailed by the national international press as Ireland’s leading jazz musician.
With a local and international following over 10 weeks, they featured several additional special guests, including acclaimed Irish singer Christine Tobin. They will return to the Shamrock for another four weekly livestreams, again funded by Donegal Country Council, before recording their debut album under a government Music Industry Stimulus Package grant.
EARAGAIL Arts Festival is looking forward to welcoming artists and audiences from across the globe back to Donegal throughout July.
The dates of the 33rd festival have been confirmed, 4th to 25th July, as organisers continue to finalise a programme that will connect artists, audiences and the community in Donegal to the rest of the world.
Paul Brown, CEO & Artistic Director, Earagail Arts Festival said there is lots of good news in-store for the arts community in 2021.
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“We’ve just come through a difficult year and we’re now trying to put in place a number of different scenarios and plans, taking into consideration the current guidelines, for the 2021 Earagail Arts Festival. We’re optimistic for live performances in July but a lot depends on how the vaccination programme works between now and then,” he said.