We had a really great Friday night out in this town centre, modern hall. The cosy hall has a small upstairs bar serving some alcohol and soft drinks are allowed into the auditorium.
Boy those Westport folks sure know how to party, despite having seats folks were on their feet, energetically dancing the night away.
It was a night of fabulous swing music with a 7 piece live band from Dublin, the Swing Cats with over two eclectic hours of mostly American tunes, "Putting on the Ritz", "When The Saints Go Marching In", "Mack the knife", "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You", "Mr Bojangles" "New York, New York". We knew the words of every single song and we sang along badly.
We didn't plan it, only seeing the poster in the window on a Sunday night and we managed to get two tickets side by side (€20 each) on the Monday way toward the back of the hall, which was fine.
The town hall is a public sector arts centre that doubles up as the local tourist office and is excellently run by the local council, proving public services can be run way better than the overrated, often over - priced, private sector. The UK has a malevolent government hell-bent on destroying public service so the arts there will suffer at the hands of execrable thugs who have already destroyed, train, rail, water, education and health services.
The chap who sold us the tickets recommended lots of things for us to do and we sure took his advice, in fact he booked a number of trips for us as well as the swing night. If you are nearby do check out what's on and treat yourself. We are delighted we did. read more
