Welcome 2020

Introduction and message from our Chairperson/Réamhrá ón gCathaoirleach

In this unprecedented year, the Cashel Arts Festival team welcomes you to a festival that has been
made to measure for the times we are living through.

When we decided our theme as ‘20/20 vision’ and set about planning our programme, we had no idea how
it would have to be reimagined for 2020. Given the impact of the pandemic on all of us and our belief in
the positive transformative power of the arts for all individuals, we set about cutting and sewing together a
patchwork of our original vision.

Please join us and enjoy as a community our events broadcast on local radio, our website, festival screen, zoom, social
media and our visual arts on Cashel’s streets.

Anne Marie O’Donnell, Chairperson

Thank you and Acknowledgements/Buíochas le

Melanie Scott (Tipperary Arts Officer), Leisa Gray (Festival Support Advisor), Tipperary County Council, Cllr Michael Smith (Cathaoirleach), Anthony Coleman, Cashel-Tipperary-Cahir Municipal Authority,  Cllr. John Crosse (Cathaoirleach), Cllr. Declan Burgess (Leas-chathaoirleach), Cllr. Roger Kennedy, Cllr. Michael Fitzgerald, Martin Browne TD, Karl Wallace and Arts Council Ireland, Creative Ireland, Cashel Library and Staff, Cashel Heritage and Development Trust, Anne Devitt, Olivia Quinlan and the staff of Cashel Heritage Centre, The Dean and Select Vestry of St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Denis Vahey Photography, Róisín O'Grady (Heritage Officer), Elaine Moriarty, OPW and staff,  Joe Barry,  Dermot O’Halloran,  Geraldine & Seán Laffey,Geraldine Gleeson, Audrey O'Byrne, Joan Kennedy and Rockwell College, Will Ryan and St. John the Baptist Boys’ School, Mary Andrews and St. John the Baptist Girls’ School, Elma Cooke and the Deanery School, Margaret Gleeson and Ballinure N.S, Sara McGeachy and 2nd class pupils in Holy Trinity NS Fethard, John Manley and Dualla N.S, Teresa Moloney and Rossmore N.S, Mary O'Donnell and St. Isidore's N.S, Eleanor O'Dwyer and Knockavilla N.S, Siobhán McGrath and Little Flower N.S,  Shaun Leahy, Order of Malta, AM Office Supplies, Cashel Flowers, John Ryan (Con) Construction, The Men's Shed Cashel, Pat Maher and Ardmayle Heritage Society, Mikey Ryan's Bar and Kitchen, Bailey's Hotel and Restaurant, Tipp Mid West Radio, Victor Fire Protection, Matt Keating Sand and Gravel, An Garda Síochána, all artists, festival team, volunteers and community members who were part of Cashel Arts Festival 2020.