Links > Tours & Festivals
TOURS
IRISH MUSIC FESTIVALS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
JANUARY
Shannonside Winter Music Weekend
County Clare
January 16th – 20th, 2014
www.wmw.ie
Celtic Connections
Glasgow, Scotland
January 16th – February 2nd, 2014
www.celticconnections.com
Temple Bar Trad Festival
Dublin
January 22nd – 26th, 2014
www.templebartrad.com
FEBRUARY
NYAH Traditional Irish Music Festival
February 12th – March 17th, 2014
www.thisiscavan.ie
Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh
County Kerry
February 19th – 23rd, 2014
www.scoilcheoil.com
The Gathering Traditional Festival
Killarney, County Kerry
February 18th – 22nd, 2015
www.thegathering.ie
John Joe Maguire
Memorial Festival Weekend
Swanlinbar, Co. Cavan
February 28th – March 2nd, 2014
www.johnjoemaguire.com
MARCH
NYAH Traditional
Irish Music Festival
February 12th – March 17th, 2014
www.thisiscavan.ie
The Celtic Festival of Wales
March 2014
Mighty St. Patrick’s Festival
Raglan Road, Downtown Disney
March 7th – 17th, 2014
www.raglanroad.com
Inishowen International
Folk Song & Ballad Seminar
March 21st – 24th, 2014
www.inishowensinging.ie
Ceardlann Earraigh, Concert
& Workshops in Music
March 2014
www.ceardlannearraigh.com
Féile na bPáistí
Children’s Festival
April 2014
APRIL
Féile Átha Dá Chab
Ballydehob, County Cork
April 4th – 6th, 2014
www.ballydehobtradfestival.com
Féile Patrick Byrne
April 8th – 13th, 2014
www.comhaltas.ie/events
Clifden Traditional Music Festival
Clifden, Co. Galway
April 2014
www.clifdentradfest.com
Kilfenora Music Festival
Kilfenora, County Clare
April 2014
MAY
Féile Na nDéise
Dungarven, County Waterford
May 2014
The “Cup of Tae” Traditional Festival
Ardara, County Donegal
May 2nd – 5th, 2014
www.cupoftaefestival.com
Baltimore Fiddle Fair
Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland
May 8th – 11th, 2014
www.fiddlefair.com
The Galway Early Music Festival
May 8th – 11th, 2014
www.galwayearlymusic.com
Skerries Traditional Music Weekend
County Dublin
May 16th – 18th, 2014
www.skerriestraditionalmusic.com
Fleadh Nua in Ennis
May 18th – 26th, 2014
www.fleadhnua.com
JUNE
Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipe & Traditional Music Festival
June 20th–22nd, 2014
www.jimdowlingfestival.com
Craiceann International
Bodhrán Summerschool
June 23rd – 27th, 2014
www.craiceann.com
Earagail Arts Festival
June 2014
www.eaf.ie
Seisiúin Thir Chonaill
June 2014
Clareen Traditional Day
Clareen, Birr, Co. Offaly
June 2014
The Galway Sessions
June 2014
www.galwaysessions.com
Minnesota Irish
Music Weekend
June 13th – 15th, 2014
www.centerforirishmusic.org
Doolin Folk Festival
June 2014
www.doolinfolkfestival.com
Ennis Roots Music Weekend
June 2014
www.ennisrootsweekend.com
The Blas International
Summer School
of Irish Traditional Music and Dance
June 23rd – July 4th, 2014
www.blas.ie
Celtic Fusion
International
Musical Arts Festival
June 2014
www.celticfusion.co.uk
Coleman Country Bodhran School
Gurteen, County Sligo
June 28th – July 2nd, 2014
www.colemanbodhran.com
JULY
Earagail Arts
Festival
June 2014
www.eaf.ie
East Durham Irish Trad Fest
July 19th, 2014
www.catskillsirishartsweek.com
Ceol na Coille Summer School
July 21st – 25th, 2014
www.ceolnacoille.ie
Féile Cheoil Chlochán Bhréanainn/
Cloghane Brandon Music Festival
July 2014
www.cflt.ie
Gooikoorts International Folk Music Festival
July 4th – 6th, 2014
www.gooikoorts.be
Willie Clancy Summer School
Miltown Malbay, County Clare
July 5th – 13th, 2014
www.scoilsamhraidhwillieclancy.com
Carrick Water Music Festival
Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim
July 15th – 20th, 2014
carrickwatermusicfestival.com
Rencontres International de Luthiers et Maîtres Sonneurs/Meeting of instrument makers and master piper
July 2014
www.rencontresdeluthiers.org
South Sligo Summer School of Traditional Music, Song & Dance
July 13th – 19th, 2014
www.sssschool.org
Catskills Irish Arts Week
July 13th – 19th, 2014
www.catskillsirishartsweek.com
Meitheal Residential Summer School 2014
July 21st – 25th, 2014
www.tradweek.com
Ardara Bluegrass Festival
July 18th – 20th, 2014
www.Ardara.ie
Joe Mooney Summer School
July 19th – 26th, 2014
www.joemooneysummerschool.com
Fiddlers Green International Festival
July 20th – 27th, 2014
www.fiddlersgreenfestival.co.uk
Scoil Acla Summer School
July 26th – August 2nd, 2014
www.scoilacla.com
AUGUST
FLEADH Cheoil na hEireann Sligo
August 10th – 17th 2014
www.fleadhcheoil.ie
James Morrison
Traditional Music Festival
August Bank Holiday Weekend
www.comhaltas.ie
Ballyshannon Folk Festival
Ballyshannon, County Donegal
August 2014
www.ballyshannonfolkfestival.com
Dublin Ohio
Irish Festival, USA
August 1st – 3rd, 2014
www.dublinirishfestival.org
O’Carolan, Harp &
Traditional Music Festival
Keadue, Co. Roscommon
August 2014
www.ocarolanharpfestival.ie
Féile Cheoil
Chill Chartha
Kilcar Fleadh, Kilcar,
County Donegal
August 2014
Carmel Gunning
Summer School Festival
August 2014
email: carmelgunning09@gmail.com
Feakle International
Traditional Music Festival
August 6th – 11th, 2014
www.feaklefestival.ie
The Irish Fair of Minnesota
August, 8th – 10th, 2014
www.irishfair.com
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention
United Kingdom
August 7th – 9th, 2014
www.fairportconvention.com
Bath Folk Festival
August 9th – 17th, 2014
www.bathfolkfestival.org
Masters of Tradition Festival
Bantry, County Cork
August 20th – 24th, 2014
www.westcorkmusic.ie
Milwaukee Irish Fest
Milwaukee, USA
August 14th – 17th, 2014
www.irishfest.com
National Heritage Week
August 23rd – 31st, 2014
www.heritageweek.ie
Tonder Festival
Denmark
August 28th – 31st, 2014
www.tf.dk
Coleman Traditional Festival
August 21st – 24th, 2014
www.colemanirishmusic.com
Cornwall Folk Festival in Wadebridge
England
August 22nd – 25th, 2014
www.cornwallfolkfestival.com
SEPTEMBER
The Peninsula Sessions
September 2014
www.festivalofthepeninsula.info
Gig’n the Bann Music
and Dance Festival
Portglenone, County Antrim
September 11th – 14th, 2014
www.gignthebann.com
Dingle Tradfest
Dingle, County Kerry
September 11th – 14th, 2014
www.dingletradfest.com
Tulla Trad Festival
Tulla, County Clare
September 19th – 21st, 2014
www.tullatradfestival.ie
Gerry Whelan Memorial Weekend
Cootehill, County Cavan
September 2014
www.gerrywhelanweekend.com
Tuam Trad Festival
Tuam, County Galway
September 19th – 21st, 2014
www.tuamtradfestival.com
Johnny Doherty Traditional
Music and Dance Festival
September 26th – 28th, 2014
www.Ardara.ie
Irish Music At Pordic, Brittany, France
September 2014
www.irishconnection.fr
OCTOBER
O’CAROLAN HARP,
CULTURAL & HERITAGE FESTIVAL
October 2014
Nobber, Co. Meath
www.carolanfestival.com
The Irish
Festival of Oulu
October 1st – 5th, 2014
Oulu, Finland
www.irkku.fi
Cork Folk Festival
October 2nd – 5th, 2014
www.corkfolkfestival.com
Celtic Colours
International Festival
Cape Breton Island, Canada
October 10th – 18th, 2014
www.celtic-colours.com
Youghal Gathering Events
October 2014
www.corkrebelweek2013.com
Feile Frank McGann Irish
Traditional Music Festival
October 2014
www.feilefrankmcgann.com
Tyneside Irish
Festival
United Kingdom
October 17th – 26th, 2014
www.tynesideirish.com
Scoil Cheoil
na Botha
October 2014
Scotstown, County Monaghan
www.anbhoth.ie
Return to Camden
Town Festival
October 22nd – 26th, 2014
www.returntocamden.org
Patrick O’ Keeffe
Traditional Music Festival
Castleisland, County Kerry
October 2014
www.patrickokeeffe.net
Sligo Live Festival
Bank Holiday Weekend, Sligo
October 22nd – 27th, 2014
www.sligolive.ie
NOVEMBER
Copenhagen
Irish Festival
Copenhagen, Denmark
November 6th – 9th, 2014
www.irishfestival.dk
Ennis Trad Festival
Ennis, County Clare
November 2014
www.ennistradfestival.com
William Kennedy Piping Festival
Armagh
November 2014
www.armaghpipers.com
