- Music
- 21 Oct 13
Belfast goes gig crazy from November 11 – 17, as the city hosts its annual Music Week.
The centrepiece will undoubtedly be Van Morrison being awarded the Freedom of the City on November 15 in The Waterfront.
If you've a Belfast area postcode, you're in with a shout of getting your hands on one of the 2000 free tickets being released. Apply in person at The Waterfront box office from October 22 – 30, or online at [link]www.belfastcity.gov.uk[/link] or [link]www.waterfront.co.uk[/link].
Belfast Music Week closes in The Waterfront with a Seamus Heaney tribute night on November 17.
‘A Poet To Be Grateful For’ will feature a host of the Nobel Laureate’s actor friends and admirers reading his work over music supplied by the Ulster Orchestra.
Tickets for the gig, which is being broadcast live on BBC Radios Ulster and Foyle, are £16.
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Seamus spent the late ‘50s and pretty much the whole of the ‘60s in Belfast, where he assembled such notable collections of Death Of A Naturalist and hung out at Queens.
The numerous other highlights includes the awarding of the Northern Ireland Music Prize in Mandela Hall on November 12.
A Plastic Rose, Anthony Toner, The Bonnevilles, Foy Vance, Jetplane Landing, Space Dimension Controller, Trucker Diablo, And So I Watch You From Afar, Axis Of, Fighting With Wire, Girls Names, Le Carousel, Tired Pony and Two Door Cinema Club among its extremely healthy shortlist.