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Belfast TradFest
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Belfast TradFest is back for 2024!
Belfast TradFest, Northern Ireland’s premier traditional music, song, and dance festival, is back for its much-anticipated 6th edition from July 21st to 28th. This year’s festival offers over three hundred and fifty events with the world’s finest trad musicians and promises an exhilarating week of concert performances, workshops, sessions and community events, bringing together some of the finest talents in the world of traditional arts.
The concert line-up includes legendary Clannad songstress Moya Brennan, Zoë Conway & John McIntyre, Cherish the Ladies, Trans-Atlantic supergroup Lúnasa, West Kerry songbirds Pauline Scanlon & Éilís Kennedy aka Lumiere, Cathal Hayden’s Bow Brothers, musical maestros Mary Dillon, Neil Martin & Dónal O’Connor, Seamie O’Dowd, Jiggy, Pólca 4 and BIIRD, brand new 11-piece, all female, superstar collective made up of some of Ireland's best traditional musicians and singers.
The Belfast TradFest Summer School of Traditional Music is the hub around which the festival is built. Young and ‘not so young’ come to Belfast to learn from the very best in the business, for a 5-day long programme of summer school events. This year’s line-up of tutors features no less than seven TG4 Gradam Ceoil Award recipients and amongst the list of world class talent will be Tyrone’s Ryan Molloy, acclaimed Belfast composer and musician Neil Martin, Co. Kerry’s Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, banjo maestro Cathal Hayden, Tara Breen of The Chieftains, Cross Border Orchestra Bagpiper Grahame Harris, Sean Nós dancing dynamo Mary McGuiggan & Belfast’s very own set dancing master Ronán Eastwood. These workshops are designed not only to hone technical skills but also to immerse attendees in the cultural and historical context of the music.
Festival highlights also include Dunville’s Irish Whiskey Session Trail, Pride Céilí in partnership with Belfast Pride and TITANIC CÉILÍ, A free, one day outdoor family event celebrating traditional music, song, and dance.
To find out more, please visit www.belfasttradfest.com
The concert line-up includes legendary Clannad songstress Moya Brennan, Zoë Conway & John McIntyre, Cherish the Ladies, Trans-Atlantic supergroup Lúnasa, West Kerry songbirds Pauline Scanlon & Éilís Kennedy aka Lumiere, Cathal Hayden’s Bow Brothers, musical maestros Mary Dillon, Neil Martin & Dónal O’Connor, Seamie O’Dowd, Jiggy, Pólca 4 and BIIRD, brand new 11-piece, all female, superstar collective made up of some of Ireland's best traditional musicians and singers.
The Belfast TradFest Summer School of Traditional Music is the hub around which the festival is built. Young and ‘not so young’ come to Belfast to learn from the very best in the business, for a 5-day long programme of summer school events. This year’s line-up of tutors features no less than seven TG4 Gradam Ceoil Award recipients and amongst the list of world class talent will be Tyrone’s Ryan Molloy, acclaimed Belfast composer and musician Neil Martin, Co. Kerry’s Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, banjo maestro Cathal Hayden, Tara Breen of The Chieftains, Cross Border Orchestra Bagpiper Grahame Harris, Sean Nós dancing dynamo Mary McGuiggan & Belfast’s very own set dancing master Ronán Eastwood. These workshops are designed not only to hone technical skills but also to immerse attendees in the cultural and historical context of the music.
Festival highlights also include Dunville’s Irish Whiskey Session Trail, Pride Céilí in partnership with Belfast Pride and TITANIC CÉILÍ, A free, one day outdoor family event celebrating traditional music, song, and dance.
To find out more, please visit www.belfasttradfest.com
Top Reasons To Visit
- Some events are free
- Learn how to play different musical instruments
- Different dates and times to suit everyone
- World-class musicians
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