Links > Tours & Festivals
TOURS
IRISH MUSIC FESTIVALS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
JANUARY
Shannonside Winter Music Weekend
County Clare
January 17th – 20th, 2013
www.wmw.ie
Celtic Connections
Glasgow, Scotland
January 17th – February 3rd, 2013
www.celticconnections.com
Temple Bar Trad Festival
Dublin
January 22nd – 27th, 2013
www.templebartrad.com
FEBRUARY
Drogheda Singing Gathering
Ireland’s Largest Gathering of Traditional Singers
8th-10th February 2013
www.facebook.com/thedroghedasinginggathering
Ceol Chairlinn
Carlingford, County Louth
February 8th – 19th, 2013
www.carlingfordbeds.com
Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh
County Kerry
February 13th - 17th 2013
www.scoilcheoil.com
The Gathering Traditional Festival
Killarney, County Kerry
Feb 20th – 24th, 2013
www.thegathering.ie
MARCH
John Joe Maguire Memorial Festival Weekend
Swanlinbar, Co. Cavan
March 1st – 3rd, 2013
www.johnjoemaguire.com
The Celtic Festival of Wales
March 1st– 3rd, 2013
www.cwlwmceltaidd.com
Irlanda in Festa
Florence, Italy
March 16th – 20th, 2013
Inishowen Traditional Singers Circle
County Donegal
March 22nd – 25th, 2013
www.inishowensinging.ie
Ceardlann Earraigh, Concert & Workshops in Music
March 13th – 17th, 2013
www.ceardlannearraigh.com
Féile Patrick Byrne
Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan
March 21th – April 24th, 2013
www.myspace.com/patrickbyrnefestival
Féile na bPáistí
Children’s Festival
April 2nd–4th, 2013
www.cill-chartha-kilcar.com
Féile Átha Dá Chab
Ballydehob, County County
March 30th - April 1st, 2013
www.ballydehobtradfestival.com
APRIL
3rd Annual Clifden Traditional Music Festival
Clifden, Co. Galway
April 4th–7th, 2013
www.clifdentradfest.com
Kilfenora Music Festival
Kilfenora, County Clare
20th April 2013 - 25th May, 2013
www.kilfenorainfo.com
Nyah Festival
Cavan, April 15th – 20th, 2013
www.cavanmusic.com
MAY DATES
Féile Na nDéise
Dungarven, County Waterford
28th April - 2nd May, 2013
www.feilenandeise.com
The “Cup of Tae” Traditional Festival
Ardara, County Donegal
May 3rd–6th, 2013
www.cupoftaefestival.com
Baltimore Fiddle Fair
Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland
May 9th–13th, 2013
www.fiddlefair.com
Galway Early Music Festival
May 17th –20th, 2013
www.galwayearlymusic.com
Skerries Traditional Weekend
County Dublin
May 18th–20th, 2013
www.skerriestraditionalmusic.com
Fleadh Nua in Ennis
May 19th – 27th, 2013
www.fleadhnua.com
JUNE
Earagail Arts Festival
June 21st – July 21st, 2013
www.eaf.ie
Seisiúin Thir Chonaill
June 2013
www.dungloe.info
Clareen Traditional Day
June 2013
The Galway Sessions
June 10th–17th, 2013
www.galwaysessions.com
Minnesota Irish Music Weekend
June 13th – 16th, 2013
www.centerforirishmusic.org
Doolin Folk Festival
June 14th – 16th 2013
www.doolinfolkfestival.com
Ennis Roots Weekend
June 21st – 23rd 2013
www.ennisrootsweekend.com
Blas Summer School
University of Limerick, Limerick
June 24th – July 5th 2013
www.blas.ie
Celtic Fusion International
Musical Arts Festival
June 2013
www.celticfusion.co.uk
JULY
Féile Cheoil Chlochán Bhréanainn/Cloghane Brandon Music Festival
July 5th – 7th, 2013
www.cflt.ie
Coleman Country Bodhran School
Gurteen, County Sligo
July 2nd 6th, 2013
www.colemanbodhran.com
Gooikoorts International Folk Music Festival
July 5th–7th, 2013
www.gooikoorts.be
Willie Clancy Summer School
Miltown Malbay, County Clare
July 6th–14th, 2013
www.oac.ie
Carrick-on-Shannon Water Music Festival
Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim
June 25th–30th, 2013
www.carrickonshannonwatermusic.com
Rencontres International de Luthiers et Maîtres Sonneurs /
Meeting of instrument makers and master piper
July 11th – 14th, 2013
www.rencontresdeluthiers.org
South Sligo Summer School
Tubbercurry, County Sligo
July 14th– 20th, 2013
www.sssschool.org
Catskills Irish Arts Week
East Durham, New York, USA
July 21st– 28th, 2013
www.catskillsirishartsweek.org
Meitheal Summer School
Villiers School, Limerick
July 22nd – 26th, 2013
www.tradweek.com
Ardara Bluegrass Festival
Ardara, County Donegal
July 19th – 21st, 2013
www.ardara.ie
Joe Mooney Summer School
Drumshanbo, County Leitrim
July 20th – 27th, 2013
www.joemooneysummerschool.com
Fiddlers Green Festival
Rostrevor, County Down
July 21st – 28th, 2013
www.fiddlersgreenfestival.co.uk
James Morrison
Traditional Music Festival
July 3rd – 6th, 2013
www.morrison.ie
Scoil Acla Irish Traditional Music Summer School
Achill Island, County Mayo
July 27th – August 3rd, 2013
www.scoilacla.com
Ballyshannon Folk Festival
Ballyshannon, County Donegal
July 29th –31st, 2013
www.ballyshannonfolkfestival.com
AUGUST
Dublin Ohio Irish Festival, USA
August 2nd - 4th, 2013
www.dublinirishfestival.org
O’Carolan, Harp & Traditional Music Festival
Keadue, Co. Roscommon
August 2nd – August 5th, 2013
www.ocarolanharpfestival.ie
Féile Cheoil Chill Chartha
Kilcar Fleadh, Kilcar, County Donegal
August 5th – 11th, 2013
www.cill-chartha-kilcar.com
14th Annual Carmel Gunning Summer School Festival
August 6th-10th 2013
email:carmelgunning09@gmail.com
26th Feakle Traditional Music Festival
Feakle, County Clare
August 7th – 12th, 2013
www.feaklefestival.ie
The Irish Fair of Minnesota
August 9th – 11th, 2013
www.irishfair.com
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention
United Kingdom
August 8th – 10th, 2013
www.fairportconvention.com
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann
Derry
August 11th – 18th, 2013
www.fleadhcheoil.ie
Bath Folk Festival
August 12th – 18th, 2013
www.bathfolkfestival.org
Masters of Tradition Festival
Bantry, County Cork
August 14th – 18th, 2013
www.westcorkmusic.ie
Milwaukee Irish Fest
Milwaukee, USA
August 15th – 18th, 2013
www.irishfest.com
National Heritage Week
August 17th – 25th, 2013
www.heritageweek.ie
Tonder Festival
Denmark
August 22nd – 25th, 2013
www.tf.dk
Coleman Traditional Festival
Gurteen, County Sligo
August 21st – 25th, 2013
www.colemanirishmusic.com
Wadebridge Folk Festival
England
August 2013
www.wadebridgefolk.co.uk
SEPTEMBER
The Peninsula Sessions
September 2013
www.festivalofthepeninsula.info
Gign the Bann Music and Dance Festival
Portglenone, County Antrim
September 5th – 8th, 2013
www.gignthebann.com
Dingle Tradfest
Dingle, County Kerry
September 12th – 15th, 2013
www.dingletradfest.com
Tulla Trad Festival
Tulla, County Clare
September 6th – 8th, 2013
www.tullatradfestival.ie
Gerry Whelan Memorial Weekend
Cootehill, County Cavan
September 2013
www.gerrywhelanweekend.com
Tuam Trad Festival
Tuam, County Galway
September 2013
www.tuamtradfestival.com
Johnny Doherty Music & Dance Festival
Ardara, County Donegal
September 26th, 2013
www.ardara.ie
Irish Music At Pordic, Brittany, France
September 28th – 29th, 2013
www.irishconnection.fr
OCTOBER
O’CAROLAN HARP, CULTURAL & HERITAGE FESTIVAL
October 4th – 6th, 2013,
Nobber, Co. Meath
www.carolanfestival.com
The Irish Festival of Oulu
October 2013
Oulu, Finland
www.irkku.fi
Cork Folk Festival
October 10th-13th, 2013
www.corkfolkfestival.com
Celtic Colours International Festival
Cape Breton Island, Canada
October 11– 19th, 2013
www.celtic-colours.com
Youghal Gathering Events
October 14th -20th, 2013
www.corkrebelweek2013.com
Feile Frank McGann Irish
Traditional Music Festival
October 2013
www.feilefrankmcgann.com
Tyneside Irish Festival Festival
United Kingdom
October 2013
www.tynesideirish.com
Scoil Cheoil na Botha
October 11th – 13th, 2013
Scotstown, County Monaghan
www.anbhoth.ie
Return to Camden
Town Festival
October 2013
www.returntocamden.org
Patrick O’ Keeffe
Traditional Music Festival
Castleisland, County Kerry
October 2013
www.patrickokeeffe.net/updates.htm
Sligo Live Festival
Bank Holiday Weekend, Sligo
October 23rd – 28th, 2013
www.sligolive.ie
NOVEMBER
Copenhagen Irish Festival
Copenhagen, Denmark
November 2013
www.irishfestival.dk
Ennis Trad Festival
Ennis, County Clare
November 7th-11th 2013
www.ennistradfestival.com
William Kennedy Piping Festival
Armagh
November 14th – 18th, 2013
www.armaghpipers.com
DECEMBER
Frankie Kennedy Winter School
County Donegal
December 2013
www.frankiekennedy.com
