Kilkenny Arts Festival gets set for Return of Ulysses

I love festival brochures, particularly when I am seduced by practically everything they have on offer - and not necessarily in music alone. When it’s a case of laying out its stalls particularly well – and often with daring aplomb - nobody does it better than the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the pinnacle of the summer’s cultural beanos, from August 9 to 19.

This festival has a proud record in classical music. It set ...