A CONCERT will be held in the Hillgrove Hotel, Dingle, on Saturday night, February 6, for the benefit of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Some of West Kerry's best known musicians and singers are giving of their time for the event and the organisers promise that "every cent will be donated to Concern".

Taking part will be Séamus Ó Beaglaoich, Breanndán and Brianinn Ó Beaglaoich, Philip King, Eoin Duignan and company, Rónán Ó Snodaigh, Mark Crickard and company and Damian Mullane.

Four prominent, locally-based artists have donated very special pieces of art to be raffled on the night. These are Tomàisìn Ò Cìobhàin, Maria SimmonsGooding, Liam Ò Nèill and Patsy Farr.

Tickets at €10 each are for sale in the West Kerry Live office, Tig Bhric, Tig Ui Chathàin, Oifig a' Phoist Ceann Trà and Oifig a' Phoist Baile na nGall. Tickets will also be available at the door on the night.

Philip King, producer of the Other Voices TV series, will act as fear a tí at the event.

For further information contact Áine Bric on 087 6483170.

Meanwhile, the Dingle-based youth theatre group Annóg are preparing to stage two plays which will benefit the Haiti relief fund.

Two one-act plays, in the Irish language, on the theme of motherhood will be produced by AnnÓg/Ar Aghaidh in An Lab, John St., Dingle on Saturday and Sunday, February 13/14, at 8pm.

The plays are 'Chun na Farraige Síos' ('Riders to the Sea') by JM Synge and 'Port na Mammies' ('The Mammies' Tune') by Ceaití Ní Bheldúin.

'Riders to the Sea', acknowledged as one of Synge's greatest plays, was first published in 1905. AnnÓg produced a version adapted for Corca Dhuibhne as part of the annual Blasket Island Commemoration last year and this revival will bring it to a wider audience.

'Port na Mammies' is a new play and the first from the pen of Ceaití Ní Bheldúin, whose acclaimed first collection of poetry 'An Teorainn Bheo' was published by Coiscéim in 2007. Ceaití was raised in Rush in north Co. Dublin and now lives in West Kerry.

Half the proceeds for the two nights of theatre will go to the relief fund for Haiti. Tickets at €10 will be available at Dingle Music Shop on the Main St. and at the door.

Tea and coffee will be served at the interval between the two plays.

This production is another step towards the realisation of AnnÓg's aim of establishing a professional Irish language theatre company in Corca Dhuibhne.