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TOURS
IRISH MUSIC FESTIVALS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
JANUARY
Shannonside Winter Music Weekend
County Clare
January 12th – 15th, 2012
www.wmw.ie
Celtic Connections
Glasgow, Scotland
January 19th – February 5th, 2012
www.celticconnections.com
Temple Bar Trad Festival
Dublin
January 25th – 29th, 2012
www.templebartrad.com
FEBRUARY
Ceol Chairlinn
Carlingford, County Louth
February 3rd – 5th, 2012
www.carlingfordbeds.com
Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh
County Kerry
February 15th - 19th 2012
www.scoilcheoil.com
The Gathering Traditional Festival
Killarney, County Kerry
Feb 22nd – 26th, 2012
www.thegathering.ie
MARCH
John Joe Maguire Memorial Festival Weekend
Swanlinbar, Co. Cavan
March 2nd – 4th, 2012
www.johnjoemaguire.com
The Celtic Festival of Wales
March 2nd – 4th, 2012
www.cwlwmceltaidd.com
Nyah Festival
Cavan, March 2nd – 18th, 2012
www.cavanmusic.com
Irlanda in Festa
2012, Florence, Italy
March 13th – 17th, 2012
Inishowen Traditional Singers Circle
County Donegal
March 23rd – 26th, 2012
www.inishowensinging.ie
Ceardlann Earraigh, Concert & Workshops in Music
March 31st, 2012
www.ceardlannearraigh.com
Féile Patrick Byrne
Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan
March 29th – April 1st, 2012
www.myspace.com/patrickbyrnefestival
Féile na bPáistí
Children’s Festival
March 29th – April 1st, 2012
www.cill-chartha-kilcar.com
Féile Átha Dá Chab
Ballydehob, County County
March 30th - April 1st, 2012
www.ballydehobtradfestival.com
APRIL
3rd Annual Clifden Traditional Music Festival
Clifden, Co. Galway
April 13th – 15th, 2012
www.clifdentradfest.com
Kilfenora Music Festival
Kilfenora, County Clare
April 26th – 30th, 2012
www.kilfenorainfo.com
Folk, Blues & Bluegrass Festival
April 30th – May 2nd, 2012
www.kilcaronline.com
MAY DATES
Féile Na nDéise
Dungarven, County Waterford
May 2012
www.feilenandeise.com
The “Cup of Tae” Traditional Festival
Ardara, County Donegal
May 4th – 7th, 2012
www.cupoftaefestival.com
Baltimore Fiddle Fair
Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland
May 9th – 13th, 2012
www.fiddlefair.com
Galway Early Music Festival
May 17th – 20th, 2012
www.galwayearlymusic.com
Skerries Traditional Weekend
County Dublin
May 18th – 20th, 2012
www.skerriestraditionalmusic.com
Fleadh Nua in Ennis
May 20th – 28th, 2012
www.fleadhnua.com
JUNE
Seisiúin Thir Chonaill
June 4th – 6th, 2012
www.dungloe.info
Wimborne Folk Festival
Dorset, England
June 8th – 10th, 2012
www.wimbornefolkfestival.co.uk
Clareen Traditional Day
June 8th – 10th, 2012
The Galway Sessions
June 11th-17th, 2012
www.galwaysessions.com
Minnesota Annual Young Irish Musician’s Weekend
June 14th – 17th, 2012
www.centerforirishmusic.org
North Atlantic Fiddle Convention
Derry - Donegal
June 27th - July 1st, 2012
www.nafco2012.com
London Feis
Finsbury Park
June 16 - 17, 2012
www.londonfeis.com
Blas Summer School
University of Limerick, Limerick
June 25th – 2012
www.blas.ie
Coleman Country Bodhran School
Gurteen, County Sligo
June 2012
www.colemanbodhran.com
Celtic Fusion International
Musical Arts Festival
June 29th – July 1st, 2012
www.celticfusion.co.uk
JULY
Willie Clancy Summer School
Miltown Malbay, County Clare
July 7th – 15th, 2012
www.oac.ie
Carrick-on-Shannon Water Music Festival
Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim
July 2012
www.carrickonshannonwatermusic.com
Earagail Arts Festival
July 7th – 22nd, 2012
www.eaf.ie
Oland Celtic Irish Music Festival
July 5th – 7th, 2012
www.olandceltic.se
Rencontres International de Luthiers et Maîtres Sonneurs /
Meeting of instrument makers and master piper
July 13th – 15th, 2012
www.rencontresdeluthiers.org
South Sligo Summer School
Tubbercurry, County Sligo
July 15th – 21st, 2012
www.sssschool.org
The 18th Annual Catskills Irish Arts Week
East Durham, New York, USA
July 15th – 21st, 2012
www.catskillsirishartsweek.org
Meitheal Summer School
Villiers School, Limerick
July 16th – 20th, 2012
www.tradweek.com
Ardara Bluegrass Festival
Ardara, County Donegal
July 20th – 22nd, 2012
www.ardara.ie
Joe Mooney Summer School
Drumshanbo, County Leitrim
July 21st – 28th, 2012
www.joemooneysummerschool.com
Fiddlers Green Festival
Rostrevor, County Down
July 22nd – 29th, 2012
www.fiddlersgreenfestival.co.uk
Scoil Acla Irish Traditional Music Summer School
Achill Island, County Mayo
July 30th – August 5th, 2012
www.scoilacla.com
James Morrison
Traditional Music Festival
August 3rd - 5th 2012
www.morrison.ie
AUGUST
Ballyshannon Folk Festival
Ballyshannon, County Donegal
August 2nd – 5th, 2012
www.ballyshannonfolkfestival.com
Dublin Ohio Irish Festival, USA
August 3rd - 6th, 2012
www.dublinirishfestival.org
O’Carolan, Harp & Traditional Music Festival
Keadue, Co. Roscommon
August 3rd – August 6th, 2012
www.ocarolanharpfestival.ie
25th Feakle Traditional Music Festival
Feakle, County Clare
August 8th – 13th, 2012
www.feaklefestival.ie
Féile Cheoil Chill Chartha
Kilcar Fleadh, Kilcar, County Donegal
August 4th – 11th, 2012
www.cill-chartha-kilcar.com
The Irish Fair of Minnesota
August 10th-12th, 2012
www.irishfair.com
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann
Cavan
August 10th - 20th, 2012
www.cavanmusic.com
Bath Folk Festival
August 13th – 19th, 2012
www.bathfolkfestival.org
Masters of Tradition Festival
Bantry, County Cork
August 15th – 19th, 2012
www.westcorkmusic.ie
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention
United Kingdom
August 9th – 11th, 2012
www.fairportconvention.com
Milwaukee Irish Fest
Milwaukee, USA
August 16th – 19th, 2012
www.irishfest.com
National Heritage Week
August 18th – 26th, 2012
www.heritageweek.ie
Tonder Festival
Denmark
August 23rd – 26th, 2012
www.tf.dk
Coleman Traditional Festival
Gurteen, County Sligo
August 23rd - 26th, 2012
www.colemanirishmusic.com
Wadebridge Folk Festival
England
August 3rd – 5th, 2012
www.wadebridgefolk.co.uk
SEPTEMBER
Gign the Bann Music and Dance Festival
Portglenone, County Antrim
September 6th – 9th, 2012
www.gignthebann.com
Dingle Tradfest
Dingle, County Kerry
September 6th – 9th, 2012
www.dingletradfest.com
Tuam Trad Festival
Tuam, County Galway
September 14th – 16th, 2012
www.tuamtradfestival.com
Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival
Longford
September 20th – 23rd, 2012
www.johnnykeenan.com
Johnny Doherty Music & Dance Festival
Ardara, County Donegal
September 21st – 23rd, 2012
www.ardara.ie
Kilkenny Celtic Festival
Kilkenny, County Kilkenny
September 27th – 30th, 2012
www.celticfestival.ie
OCTOBER
Cork Folk Festival
Cork
October 4th – 7th, 2012
www.corkfolkfestival.com
Celtic Colours International Festival
Cape Breton Island, Canada
October 5th – 13th, 2012
www.celtic-colours.com
The Irish Festival of Oulu
Finland, October 2012
www.irkku.fi
O’Carolan Harp Cultural & Heritage Festival
Nobber, Co Meath
October 5th – 7th, 2012
www.nobberfest.com
Feile Frank McGann Irish
Traditional Music Festival
October 2012
www.feilefrankmcgann.com
Tyneside Irish Festival Festival
United Kingdom
October 2012
www.tynesideirish.com
Scoil Cheoil na Botha
October 12th – 14th, 2012
Scotstown, County Monaghan
www.anbhoth.ie
Return to Camden
Town Festival
October 2012
www.returntocamden.org
Patrick O’ Keeffe
Traditional Music Festival
Castleisland, County Kerry
October 2012
www.patrickokeeffe.net/updates.htm
Sligo Live Festival
Bank Holiday Weekend, Sligo
October 24th – 29th, 2012
www.sligolive.ie
NOVEMBER
Copenhagen Irish Festival
Copenhagen, Denmark
November 2012
www.irishfestival.dk
Ennis Trad Festival
Ennis, County Clare
November 2012
www.ennistradfestival.com
William Kennedy Piping Festival
Armagh
November 13th – 16th, 2012
www.armaghpipers.com
DECEMBER
Frankie Kennedy Winter School
County Donegal
December 2012
www.frankiekennedy.com
