North West Opera prepares for La Boheme at Earagail Arts


ONE of the highlights of this year’s Earagail Arts Festival promises to be Puccini’s classic opera La Boheme, which is being performed in the Pyramid Suite of Jackson’s Hotel Ballybofey by North West Opera, in association with the Cairo Opera Orchestra supported by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.


Courtney and Prathamesh awarded Jim Rafferty Music Scholarship


IN 1987 the Donegal School of Music and the County Donegal Youth Orchestra were founded by Mr Jim Rafferty, Sr Concepta Murphy and Mr Sean O’Longain with the aim of providing music lessons to young people in county Donegal and give them the opportunity to play together in music ensembles.