12/06/2024
📕✒️📘.🖋📙 Immrama is held in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland, on a weekend in June each year since 2003. Immrama has been dedicated to the art of Travel Writing, Good Music, and Fine Entertainment since its inception 📕✒️📘.🖋📙
Double bill with Amanda and Bridget on Sat. 15th June at 7pm, Lismore Heritage Centre
Amanda Neri is a classical ally trained Opera Singer. She has traveled extensively and experienced varied cultural approaches to her music. At Immrama, she will share some insights on her experiences while being on the road as a performer through story and song.
She has written musicals, songs, short stories and poetry. She also has two books ready for publishing. A rare cultural experience awaits you.
Bridget Ashton is an explorer, mother, writer and photographer. Her writing has been described as “Travel writing which is utterly authentic and restlessly curious”. Cold War, Warm Hearts published in 2023 is an account of a year’s solo travelling, on foot, behind the Iron Curtain in 1966. Hit the Road, Gals published 2024, talks about travelling in the sixties.
Bill Power Sunday 16th June 11.00am, Lismore Heritage Centre
Bill Power is an historian and international award-winning photographer who spent two decades exploring the Munster Blackwater, often referred to in the 19th century as 'The Irish Rhine'. His book “The Blackwater – History and Images from the Irish Rhine” captures the history, spirit and beauty of the River Blackwater. Bill said that as his voyages of discovery on foot, by air and by road increased “so did my appreciation of this river, which has a beauty and fascination that exceeded all my expectations.” He is an author of 17 books, some of his best-known works are White Knights, Dark Earleys and the Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty.
2023 Festival dates are June 15th-18th
