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Spring Recitals 2008
16th March, Virginia Kerr (Soprano) accompanied by Roy Holmes (piano). Virginia will performing works by Tauber, Novello and Puccini and her latest Cd - My Heart and I
4th May Imelda Drumm (Mezzo Soprano) and Vivienne Hassel (Soprano). They will be performing opera arias and duets.
Berry Brothers Wine and Gourmet Weekend, “The great wines of Burgundy”, 29th February for two nights
Put a Spring in your step with a weekend of glorious food and Burgundy wines at Marlfield. Ben Hawkins of Berry Brothers, an expert on burgundies, will talk you though the wines and get your taste buds tingling!
The weekend will commence with a champagne reception on Friday followed by a delicious dinner with accompanying burgundies. A tutored tasting will precede a light lunch on Saturday and there will be gala dinner that evening. The menus for the weekend will be expecially selected to best suite the Berry Brothers chosen wines.
The cost will be from €495 per person sharing including champagne and canape reception on Friday, two evenings of gourmet dinner and wines, tutored tasting with lunch on Saturday and bed and breakfast on both nights.
For those who wish only to attend the dinners, the cost would be €95 on Friday or Saturday night including wine.
Garden Tour, Sunday 6th April for two nights
Join us for two nights dinner, bed, breakfast and lunch and a gardening course with Frances MacDonald, renowned gardening expert, who trained in the National Botanic Gardens and has worked in gardening for over thirty years. We will visit the Bay Garden where Frances and Iain have created an astounding array of different garden rooms followed by a browse at Springmount Garden Centre where Elaine Warren specialises in large Italian specimens and topiary and has the largest selection of herbaceous perennials in Ireland (10% discount available) . On Tuesday we will visit Altamount Gardens, one of the most romantic gardens in the country often referred to as the “Jewel in Irelands Gardening Crown”. Another delicious lunch in Marlfield followed by wind down and a chat.
The course starts with the wine reception on Sunday at 7pm and finishes after lunch on Tuesday. Price includes wine reception on Sunday, dinner, bed, and breakfast on Sunday and Monday night, lunch on Monday and Tuesday and will be from €395 per person sharing a double room. €65 for day trip only including lunch.
Please email on info@marlfieldhouse.ie or call us for further information or to make reservations for any of the events above.
We look forward to welcoming you back to Marlfield in 2008.
Opera for a Summer’s Evening
Featuring renowned Soprano Cara O’Sullivan
Sunday 8th June 2008
Following the success of “Opera on the Lawn”, Marlfield House is delighted
to present “Opera for a Summer’s Evening “ performed by international Soprano Cara O’Sullivan with Bass Baritone John Molloy, accompanied by Mairead Hurley on piano. The concert will take place under canopy on the lawn where the scene is set for a splendid programme of music and singing from the delightful world of opera, operetta and song including ………..
Champagne bar and gardens will be open from 5pm
Catch the evening sun while strolling through our gardens enjoying a glass of champagne
Tickets including glass of champagne on arrival are €85 per person
Performance starts at 7pm sharp. Limited availability for pre or post performance dinner in the Conservatory restaurant by reservation and prepayment only (€75 pp)
Accommodation: Packages including performance, dinner,
bed and breakfast are available.
Dress: Smart Evening
Brian Kennedy
performing in a
Marquee on the Lawn
Sunday 24th August 2008
Marlfield House is delighted to present a concert featuring the international singer Brian Kennedy in a marquee in the gardens. Brian will be performing songs from his latest cd ‘ Interpretations’.
Champagne bar and gardens will be open from 5pm
Catch the evening sun while strolling through our gardens enjoying a glass of champagne
Tickets including glass of champagne or wine on arrival are €80 per person
Performance starts at 7pm sharp. Limited availability for pre or post concert dinner in the Conservatory restaurant by reservation and prepayment only (€75 pp)
Accommodation: Packages including performance, dinner,
bed and breakfast are available.
Dress Code: Glam Evening
For reservations please contact us directly
Telephone number 053 94 21124
Fax: 053 94 21572
Email: info@marlfieldhouse.ie
For further information go to our Events page on www.marlfieldhouse.com
Mark O' Neill Exibitions
November or December, date to be confirmed
Mark O' Neill
Mark O’Neill was born in Lancashire in 1963 to native Irish parents. As a child his family moved around from England to Mauritius, South Africa, Nigeria and Malta, but with all this travel he still studied at Kingston College of Art, London where he graduated with First Class Honors. Originally settling in Ireland in a Millhouse in Killeigh, Co Offaly, followed by a few years in Castledermot, Co Kildare, Mark is now settled with his partner and is restoring a small regency villa in Wexford.
For several years he worked as a high profile illustrator. His clients included Harrods, Guinness, Southern Comfort and Royal Mail. He designed several posters for Warner Brothers that were used worldwide illustrating their feature films including the posters for “The Big Easy” and “Heavenly Pursuits”.
Mark’s illustration work has also appeared on many book jacket covers including Catherine Cookson, James Herroit, Frederick Raphael, Noel Virtue and many others.
He moved home to Ireland in the late eighties and has had sell-out shows around Ireland in Wexford, Kilkenny, Louth, Killarney and Galway.
He won awards four years running at the Arnotts Portrait Exhibition, Dublin He has also exhibited at the annual “Iontas” exhibition in Sligo and the “Eigse” exhibition in Carlow.
Six of Mark’s pictures were included in an exhibition of Irish art in New York, “Ireland: Crossing Borders”, Gallery Revel (Sept/Oct 1998) where he was very well received and all his paintings sold. He recently had a sell out show in Adams where ecord prices were achieved.
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