{"id":17053,"date":"2019-02-06T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T11:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=17053"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T11:37:44","slug":"jacqueline-shares-her-pick-of-whats-on-this-weekend-across-ni-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/02\/jacqueline-shares-her-pick-of-whats-on-this-weekend-across-ni-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqueline shares her pick of what&#8217;s on this weekend across NI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Antrim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The NI Motorcycle Festival this weekend is Ireland\u2019s largest\nannual motorcycle festival, taking place at the Eikon Exhibition Centre,\nBalmoral Park, Sprucefield.&nbsp; The event promises to be a fantastic\nshow with an array of features, personalities and stands.&nbsp; A vast range of\nthe latest motorcycles and scooters from top manufacturers will be on display.\nThe NI Motorcycle Festival is organized by Nutt Promotions, and provides\nentertainment for all the family.&nbsp; As well as displays of both new and classic\nmotorcycles and scooters from top manufacturers, there will also be appearances\nfrom the stars of the motorcycling world over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Armagh<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Suitcase,\nMarket Place Theatre, Friday 8th February. In Vienna, a young woman dreams of\nbecoming a dancer. In Belfast, an elderly man revisits a painful past, while a\nmother and daughter unearth a hidden piece of family history. Moving between\nthe present day and 20th century Europe\u2019s darkest period, the play is a hymn to\nthe redemptive power of art and a life-affirming human drama. Winner of the\nAudience Award at the 2015 Belfast International Arts Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Belfast<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The legendary\nStarjets are reforming one more gig. &#8220;Spit Records&#8221; head honcho Sean\nO&#8217;Neill has persuaded the guys to appear at the Spit album launch party Live At\nThe Crum. Also on a fantastic bill are Shock Treatment, Johnny Hero&#8217;s Ex\nProducers, and Confrontation Time.&nbsp;&nbsp;What a line up!&nbsp;\nTour\/Dine\/Show Tickets available. This package will allow you to discover over\n150 years of history as you explore within the walls of Belfast\u2019s Infamous\nPrison, enjoy a 2 course meal in the atmospheric setting of Cuffs Bar &amp;\nGrill (on-site restaurant) and finish the night with live entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Derry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Anne Enright\nin Conversation, Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Saturday 9th February.&nbsp; Booker\nPrize-winning novelist Anne Enright is one of the most celebrated writers\nworking in Ireland today. Her work is part of a great tradition of Irish\nwriting that explores themes of family life, relationships, love, repression\nand memory.&nbsp; From 2015 to 2018 she was the inaugural Laureate for Irish\nFiction and we are delighted to welcome her to The Helicon where she will talk\nabout her work and career with Paul McVeigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Down<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloughmore\nMale Voice Choir is proud to present an evening with the Celtic Tenors, Newry\nTown Hall, February 8th.&nbsp; The Celtic Tenors, the only tenor group with a\ntruly global audience, and the Cloughmore Male Voice Choir will give you a\nnight to remember.&nbsp; Performing in this idyllic harbour town located on the\nshores of the beautiful&nbsp; Carlingford Lough,&nbsp; the show promises to be\none of musical delight with a blend of Celtic, Operatic and re-worked popular\nsongs that will stir the soul and inspire the listener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Fermanagh<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fly Me to the\nMoon, Ardhowen Theatre, Friday 8th February.&nbsp;Francis and Loretta are\ncommunity care visitors. Davy, one of their elderly charges, has had a\nsignificant win on the horses, but he doesn\u2019t know. When the cash-strapped\nwomen learn that Davey will not be around for a considerable time they are faced\nwith a mouth-watering dilemma. Marie Jones is the author of some of the most\nsuccessful plays ever produced in Ireland, including \u2018Stones In His Pockets\u2019,\n\u2018Women On The Verge Of HRT and \u2018A Night In November\u2019. This hilarious comedy\ninvestigates whether we are valued more in life or in death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Tyrone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ven_ture\ncomprises of David Munnelly (accordion), Anne Brennan (vocals) and Joseph\nMcNulty (fiddle) who make new arrangements for old music whilst composing new\nmelodies keeping in mind the unique sound produced by voice accordion and\nfiddle keeping to non-conventional new sounds in the process. See them perform\nlive at The Square Box, Ranfuly House Dungannon this Saturday evening. A night\nof fun and music for the whole family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more\ndetails of these events please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/whatsonni.com\/\">whatsonni.com<\/a>. Follow us on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/www.whatsonni\">facebook.com\/www.whatsonni<\/a>&nbsp;and\ntwitter&nbsp;@whatsonni&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antrim The NI Motorcycle Festival this weekend is Ireland\u2019s largest annual motorcycle festival, taking place at the Eikon Exhibition Centre, Balmoral Park, Sprucefield.&nbsp; The event promises to be a fantastic show with an array of features, personalities and stands.&nbsp; A vast range of the latest motorcycles and scooters from top manufacturers will be on display. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/02\/jacqueline-shares-her-pick-of-whats-on-this-weekend-across-ni-52\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17054,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053\/revisions\/17054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}