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TOURS
IRISH MUSIC FESTIVALS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
JANUARY DATES
Sixmilebridge Winter Music Weekend
14-17th January 2010
www.wmw.ie
Temple Bar Trad 2010
27th-31st, January 2010
www.templebartrad.com
FEBRUARY DATES
Ceol Chairlinn
4th - 5th February 2010
www.carlingfordbeds.com
The 12th Gathering Traditional Festival
24th-28th of February, 2010
www.thegathering.ie
MARCH DATES
Arabian Irish Festival
www.arabianirishfestival.com
The Celtic Festival of Wales
5th-7th March, 2010
www.cwlwmceltaidd.com
Nyah Festival
May 28th-30th, 2010
www.cavanmusic.com
Ceardlann Earraigh, Concert and Workshops in Music
March 27th, 2010
Tel. + 353 1 6273274
www.ceardlannearraigh.com
APRIL DATES
Féile na bPáistí
Children’s Festival
April 4th-5th, 2010
www.cill-chartha-kilcar.com
The 4th Annual Féile Átha Dá Chab,
April 16th - 18th, 2010
www.feileathadachab.blogspot.com
FÉILE NA nDÉISE
April 30th - 4th May, 2010
www.feilenandeise.com
The “Cup of Tae” Traditional Festival
April 30th - May 2nd, 2010
www.cupoftaefestival.com
MAY DATES
Ceiliuradh an Earraigh
Coleman Music Centre
May 1st-4th, 2009
www.colemanirishmusic.com
Folk, Blues & Bluegrass Festival
May 2009
www.cill-chartha-kilcar.com
Coleman Music Centre – Ceiliuradh an Earraigh
May 2009
www.colemanirishmusic.com
Coleman Music Centre
May 15th - 17th, 2009
www.galwayearlymusic.com
FOLK IN THE PARK
May 16th-17th, 2009
www.folkpark.com
Fiddle Fair 2010
May 6th - 9th, 2010
www.fiddlefair.com
Fleadh Nua in Ennis
May 23rd - 31st, 2010
www.comhaltas.ie/events/detail/fleadh_nua_2009
The 9th Skerries Traditional Weekend
14th-16th, May 2010
www.skerriestraditionalmusic.com
Edward Bunting Harp Festival
May 28th - 30th, 2010
www.edwardbuntingharpfestival.com
JUNE DATES
Coleman Music Centre – Fleadh Ceol Chontae Shligigh
May 2009
www.colemanirishmusic.com
Wimborne Folk Festival
11th-13th June, 2010
www.wimbornefolkfestival.co.uk
The Galway Sessions
June 14th-21st, 2010
www.galwaysessions.com
MINNESOTA 3rd ANNUAL YOUNG IRISH MUSICIAN’S WEEKEND
June 19th-21st, 2009
www.centerforirishmusic.org
Blas 2010
June 21st-July 2nd, 2010
www.blas.ie
JULY DATES
DR. DOUGLAS HYDE SUMMER SCHOOL
July 3rd-July 10th, 2010
www.douglashyde.com
WILLIE CLANCY SUMMER SCHOOL
July 2009
Email: angleann@oceanfree.net
Celtic Fusion International Musical Arts Festival
July 2009
www.celticfusion.co.uk
South Sligo Summer School
July 11th-17th, 2010
www.sssschool.org
Catskills Irish Arts Week
July 11th-17th, 2010
www.east-durham.org/irishartsweek
Meitheal Summer School
July 19th-23rd, 2010
www.tradweek.com
FIDDLER’S GREEN FESTIVAL
July 18th-25th, 2010
www.fiddlersgreenfestival.co.uk
The 16th Phil Murphy Weekend
July 2009
Tel.+ 353 87 8200986
O’Carolan, Harp & Traditional Music Festival, Keadue, Co. Roscommon
July 26th-31st, 2009
www.ocarolanharpfestival.ie
Scoil Acla Irish Traditional Music Summer School
July 26th - August 1st, 2010
www.scoilacla.com
Kilcar Street Festival
July 30th-1st August, 2010
www.cill-chartha-kilcar.com
Ballyshannon Folk Festival
August 2010
Fri 30th Sat 31st July - Sun 1st Aug 2010
www.ballyshannonfolkfestival.com
AUGUST DATES
Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann 2010
August 15th-22nd, 2010
Dublin OHIO Irish Festival
August 6th-8th, 2010
www.dublinirishfestival.org
The World Fleadh
www.theworldfleadh.com
9th Annual Queen Maeve International Summer School Festival
August 3rd - 7th, 2009
Tel: 00353 71 91 62008
www.carmelgunning.com
23rd Feakle Traditional Music Festival
4th–10th August, 2010
www.feaklefestival.ie
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention
August 12th-14th, 2010
www.fairportconvention.com
Féile Cheoil Chill Chartha
Kilcar Fleadh
August 2009
www.cill-chartha-kilcar.com
ESB BEO Celtic Music Festival
National Concert Hall, Dublin
August 2009
www.nch.ie
Éigse Mrs. Crotty Traditional Music Festival and Summer School
August 12th-16th, 2009
www.eigsemrscrotty.com
Milwaukee Irish Fest
August 19th – 22nd, 2010
www.irishfest.com
Masters of Tradition Festival
August 10th-15th, 2010
www.westcorkmusic.ie
Fleadh Ceol na hEireann
August 16th - 23rd, 2009
www.fleadh2009.com
Wadebridge Folk Festival
August 2009
www.wadebridgefolk.co.uk
Tonder Festival
August 26th - 29th, 2010
www.tf.dk
16th Annual Appalachian & Bluegrass Music Festival
September 2009
www.folkpark.com
Coleman Traditional Festival
August 2009
www.colemanirishmusic.com
SEPTEMBER DATES
Gign the Bann Music and Dance Festival
September 12th-14th, 2009
www.gignthebann.com
Éigse Chill Chartha
September 2009
www.cill-chartha-kilcar.com
Icons Irish Connections Festival
September 2009
www.irishconnections.org
Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival
September 23rd-26th, 2010
www.johnnykeenan.com
Johnny Doherty MUSIC & DANCE FESTIVAL
September 24th-26th, 2010
www.ardarafestivals.com
Kilkenny Celtic Festival
Kilkenny, County Kilkenny
September 2009
www.celticfestival.ie
OCTOBER DATES
The Irish Festival of Oulu
Finland, October 1st-4th, 2009
www.irkku.fi
Cork Folk Festival
October 1st - 4th, 2009
www.corkfolkfestival.com
Feile Lios Tuathail
October 2009
info@kerrywritersmuseum.com
O’Carolan Harp Cultural & Heritage Festival
Nobber, Co Meath
October 2009
www.nobberfest.com
Feile Frank McGann Irish Traditional Music Festival
October 8th - 11th, 2009
www.feilefrankmcgann.com
Celtic Colours International Festival
October 8th-16th, 2010
www.celtic-colours.com
Tyneside Irish Festival Festival
October 2009
www.tynesideirish.com
Scoil Cheoil na Botha
October 2009
Scotstown, County Monaghan
www.anbhoth.ie
Return to Camden Town Festival
October 09
www.returntocamden.org
Sligo Live Festival
October 21st-25th. 2010
www.sligolive.ie
Patrick O’ Keeffe Traditional Music Festival
Castleisland, County Kerry
October 2009
www.patrickokeeffe.com
An T-Oireachtas
Cork, Ireland
October 2009
www.antoireachtas.ie
Carlingford Halloween Festival
October 30th-November 1st, 2009
www.carlingfordbeds.com
NOVEMBER DATES
Copenhagen Irish Festival
Copenhagen, Denmark
November 2009
www.irishfestival.dk
Ennis Trad Festival
November 2009
www.ennistradfestival.com
16th William Kennedy Piping Festival
November 2009
www.armaghpipers.com
