www.festival-interceltique.com

Record Numbers

800,000 visitors attended this year’s edition of the Lorient Interceltic Festival, representing a 20 - 25% increase on last year’s numbers. Attendance was up on all of the festival venues in the city centre : the Quai de la Bretagne, the Interceltic Market, the Pavillion of the Celtic Nations, the Book Quay and the Village Solidaire. The numbers of tickets sold was also up on previous years with 115,000 tickets sold for the various concerts and shows on offer this year.
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www.sligolive.ie
Presents
REPUBLIC OF LOOSE
More acts announced in the coming weeks
Thursday, 21st – Monday, 25th October 2010
TICKETS ON SALE NOW

REPUBLIC OF LOOSE needs no introduction. Their albums receive rave reviews. Their concerts all sell out. They have supported the World’s biggest band U2 and of course Snow Patrol. They have performed with artists such as Sex Pistol Steve Jones and Sinead O’Connor. Sligo Live Sessions are delighted to present REPUBLIC OF LOOSE live in Concert on Sunday, 24th October 2010 at The Clarence Festival Club, Sligo.

In keeping with Sligo Live Sessions’ policy of offering top value music at very realistic prices, a limited number of Weekend Tickets to all festival performances and events which takes place on October Bank Holiday Weekend are on sale at the amazing early bird value of €75.00 per ticket.
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www.fleadh2010.ie
Final celebration concert to be recorded on DVD

End of Fleadh Monday (23rd August), 8pm–10.30pm, Cavan Town Hall Fleadh Club

“When the going gets tough, the GREAT ones party!”
That’s what Garfield said anyway, and it’s what the folks in Cavan are saying too — they reckon they’ll have earned themselves a right oul’ celebration by the time the Fleadh finishes up.
All the hard work will have been done and dusted by the time the dedicated local trad musicians and their friends take to the stage at Cavan’s Town Hall Fleadh Club for a big wrap-up show at 8 o’clock on Monday 23rd August.

Sponsored by Northern Sound Radio and the Farnham Arms Hotel, the celebration concert will also be recorded on DVD, as a special Fleadh 2010 memento.
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www.thegathering.ie

Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney
March 2nd – 6th 2011

The craic agus ceoil of The Gathering Traditional Festival is being beamed across the world via the web this month. Footage recorded at the 2010 festival can be viewed at www.thegathering.ie

“The atmosphere of The Gathering is second to none and it really has to be seen and heard to be believed,” explains Festival Chairman, John O’Shea.
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www.comhaltas.ie

Comhaltas Annual Scoil Éigse to take place in Cavan as the town prepares for the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s 38th Annual Scoil Éigse takes place in Cavan Town from 15th-20th August 2010. Scoil Éigse, CCÉ’s international Summer School plays a very important part in educating, nurturing and encouraging our cultural traditions and is open to students and the general public who have an interest in witnessing Irish traditional music at its most vibrant. The project proves a huge draw for younger students and also for international tourists who can immerse themselves in Irish culture while also learning some basic musical skills at this initiative which is the most comprehensive of its kind in the country.
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Presents
A Special Evening With
Two Sligo All Ireland Champion Céilí Bands

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What do you get when you put two Champion Céilí bands into an Award-winning Night Club? - one of the best night’s craic ever and it certainly puts an end to the old ham sandwich and tea image of Céilís in the past . That’s just what Sligo Live Sessions have done. The Velvet Rooms in Sligo has won Top Irish Nightclub for the past 3 years running. Sligo Live Sessions are delighted announce another first with the festival hosting a late night Céilí with The Innisfree Céilí Band and The Dartry Céilí Band in Sligo’s award winning Night club taking trad into previously unimagined territory.
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www.peadaroriada.ie

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta presenter, musician and composer Peadar Ó Riada has initiated a competition on his radio programme Cuireadh chun Ceoil to find the best traditional Irish fiddler.  The winner will receive a gold medal, Bonn Óir Sheáin Uí Riada, named in honour of Peadar’s father Seán Ó Riada, and will be announced at a gala concert in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork in December.

Ó Riada’s weekly music programme Cuireadh chun Ceoil broadcasts on Friday nights on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta during the summer and has a high proportion of listeners based outside the country.  The competition is intended to bring the family of listeners together, using the benefits of technology, something which Peadar feels has created a great democracy within music.
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www.musicnetwork.ie

A FREE COFFEE CONCERT WITH ACCLAIMED TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSICIANS PAUDIE O’CONNOR (BOX) AND AOIFE NÍ CHAOIMH (FIDDLE) ON TUESDAY 31ST AUGUST 2010 AS PART OF MUSIC IN THE HISTORIC QUARTER

Music Network is delighted to announce a free coffee concert with a performance by acclaimed traditional Irish musicians Paudie O’Connor (box) and Aoife Ní Chaoimh (fiddle), on Tuesday 31st August from 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. at The Coach House, Dublin Castle. Teas, coffees and light refreshments will be served. This is a free concert but ticketed. Tickets can be booked on Tel: 01 671 9429. Further details www.musicnetwork.ie/.
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August 16th – 22nd, 2010
www.fleadh2010.ie

A Simple Entertainments guide to The FleadhEvents, Gigs - Ceoil agus Craic

Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2010 gets underway in Cavan on August 16th
with Scoil Éigse workshops for adults and children. The serious end
of the Fleadh is at the weekend with hundreds of competitions in
Irish culture for all ages concluding with The All-Ireland Céilí Band
‘play off’ in the Quinn Direct Dome on Sunday night. The week will be
filled with events and classes ‘as Gaeilge’.
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October 21st – 25th, 2010
www.scoilsheamuisennis.com

‘The Return to Fingal’ is celebrating its fifteenth year this
October. Established in 1994 by Scoil Sheamuis Ennis, the festival
was the brainchild of two local traditional musicians Ger Griffin and
Sean MacPhilibin. The festival is based in the rural hinterland of
Fingal (the traditional name for North County Dublin) taking in the
villages of Naul, Ballyboughal and Oldtown. The programming mix has
always tried to strike a balance between formal recitals and concerts
and a lively informal session scene. Many of the great names in
traditional music have played the festival down the years, including:
Liam O’Flynn, Billy McComiskey, Martin Hayes, Noel Hill, John Carty
to name but a few. This years festival will be slightly smaller than
previous years reflecting the restrictions in local authority and
Arts Council funding, but will have all the ingredients of previous
years; ceilithe sessions, workshops, concerts and recitals.

Full information will be available on the Scoil Sheamuis Ennis
website www.scoilsheamuisennis.com