tour of the festivals
“The Great only appear great
because we are on our knees.
Let us arise!”
Jim Larkin
September 23 - 25, 2011 (weekend)
October 1, 2011 (Saturday)
Dance workshops & information
Preparation for The International Ceili Project (June 27 - July 1, 2012)
Féile Amhráníochta an Chlair, The Clare Festival of Traditional Singing was started by the late Tom Munnelly in 1990
‘To Tell it in Song and in Story’ is held on the first weekend of March each year. I love to go to renew my ‘honorary’ citizenship of Cork
The traditional singing weekend at Cullerlie is held in Cullerlie Farm Park, near Echt, in Aberdeenshire in late July each year
Frank Harte Festival September 2009
An Góilín Singers’ Club presented The Fourth Frank Harte Festival on Friday 25-27th September 2009 at The Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Inishowen International Folksong and Ballad Seminar
The Inishowen International Folksong and Ballad Seminar takes place on the Inishowen Peninsula, in County Donegal on the weekend after St. Patrick’s Day each year
Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy is Ireland’s foremost and largest traditional music summer school, held annually since 1973 in memory of the uilleann piper Willie Clancy
Whitby Folk Week is the most traditional of English Folk Festivals. It has an almost mind boggling programme of in excess of 600 events, covering all aspects of music, song, dance and other traditional activities
Folk Leads Publications 2008