With the new Grand Canal Theatre, pictured above, up and running and other building work around in the last Rwandan Dancers brought a taste of the exotic to Thorncastle Street in Ringsend recently as part of the Midsummer Music Festival run by Dublin City Council in conjunction with Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre. Coming up this Friday is ‘An evening at the Opera’, with works by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and many more on the menu.