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It\u00a0will feature professional and community performers including;\u00a0<strong>Carlow Choral Society under the direction of Music Director\u00a0Blanaid Murphy,\u00a0Carlow College of Music,\u00a0Aspiro,\u00a0Take A Part Carlow\u2019s Let Loose Youth Group, members of Music Generation Carlow, Byrneside Eurocyl,\u00a0Ballet Barn, County Carlow Youth Theatre, Dance Republic, the award winning local Uillean Piper Colm Broderick and many more local and national artists and contributors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course it would not be Saturday night at Carlow Arts Festival without<strong> Fireworks<\/strong>. Sugartown will finish with an epic bang!<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span>SUGARTOWN will take place as part of the Carlow Arts Festival 2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span>This project is supported by the Creative Ireland Carlow Open Call 2018\/19<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":8409,"template":"","class_list":["post-8408","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SUGARTOWN - Carlow Arts festival - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SUGAR TOWN is a distinct and unique project, beginning work in 2018 and continuing into 2019 for presentation as a large scale spectacle event led by internationally renowned director of Aarhus European City of Culture closing ceremony \u2013 Dina Abu Hamden.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/sugartown-carlow-arts-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SUGARTOWN - Carlow Arts festival - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SUGAR TOWN is a distinct and unique project, beginning work in 2018 and continuing into 2019 for presentation as a large scale spectacle event led by internationally renowned director of Aarhus European City of Culture closing ceremony \u2013 Dina Abu Hamden. 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