Links > Tours & Festivals
TOURS
IRISH MUSIC FESTIVALS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
JANUARY
Shannonside Winter Music Weekend
County Clare
January 15th – 19th, 2015
www.wmw.ie
Celtic Connections
Glasgow, Scotland
January 15th – February 1st, 2015
www.celticconnections.com
Temple Bar Trad Festival
Dublin
January 28th – February 1st, 2015
www.templebartrad.com
FEBRUARY
Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh
County Kerry
February 18th – 22nd, 2015
www.scoilcheoil.com
The Gathering Traditional Festival
Killarney, County Kerry
February 18th – 22nd, 2015
www.thegathering.ie
The Celtic Festival of Wales
February 2015
cwlwmceltaidd.org
John Joe Maguire
Memorial Festival Weekend
Swanlinbar, Co. Cavan
February 27th – March 1st, 2015
www.johnjoemaguire.com
MARCH
NYAH Traditional Irish Music Festival
March 2015
www.thisiscavan.ie
Mighty St. Patrick’s Festival
Raglan Road, Downtown Disney
March 13th – 17th, 2015
www.raglanroad.com
Music City Irish Fest
March 14th, 2015
Inishowen International
Folk Song & Ballad Seminar
March 20th – 23rd, 2015
www.inishowensinging.ie
Ceardlann Earraigh, Concert
& Workshops in Music
March 28th, 2015
www.ceardlannearraigh.com
Féile Átha Dá Chab
Ballydehob, County Cork
March 27th – 29th, 2015
www.ballydehobtradfestival.com
Féile Patrick Byrne
March 25th – 29th, 2015
www.comhaltas.ie/events
www.carrickmacross.ie
APRIL
Féile na bPáistí
Children’s Festival
April 2015
Clifden Traditional Music Festival
Clifden, Co. Galway
April 2015
www.clifdentradfest.com
Kilfenora Music Festival
Kilfenora, County Clare
April 24th – 27th, 2015
MAY
The “Cup of Tae” Traditional Festival
Ardara, County Donegal
May 2015
www.cupoftaefestival.com
Baltimore Fiddle Fair
Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland
May 7th – 10th, 2015
www.fiddlefair.com
The Galway Early Music Festival
May 14th – 17th, 2015
www.galwayearlymusic.com
Skerries Traditional Music Weekend
County Dublin
May 15th – 17th, 2015
www.skerriestraditionalmusic.com
Fleadh Nua in Ennis
May 17th – 25th, 2015
www.fleadhnua.com
Fiddle Fair
May 7th – 10th, 2015
www.fiddlefair.com
JUNE
Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipe & Traditional Music Festival
June 18th–21st, 2015
www.jimdowlingfestival.com
Craiceann International
Bodhrán Summerschool
June 22nd – 26th, 2015
www.craiceann.com
Clareen Traditional Day
Clareen, Birr, Co. Offaly
June 2015
The Galway Sessions
June 2015
www.galwaysessions.com
Minnesota Irish
Music Weekend
June 12th – 14th, 2015
www.centerforirishmusic.org
Doolin Folk Festival
June 12th - 15th, 2015
www.doolinfolkfestival.com
Ennis Roots Music Weekend
June 2015
www.ennisrootsweekend.com
Celtic Fusion
International
Musical Arts Festival
June 2015
www.celticfusion.co.uk
Coleman Country Bodhran School
Gurteen, County Sligo
June 2015
www.colemanbodhran.com
The Blas International
Summer School
of Irish Traditional Music and Dance
June 22nd – July 3rd, 2015
www.blas.ie
JULY
Earagail Arts Festival
July 10th – 26th, 2015
www.eaf.ie
Ceol na Coille Summer School
Summer School of Irish Traditional Music
July 13th - 17th, 2015
www.ceolnacoille.ie
Féile Cheoil Chlochán Bhréanainn/
Cloghane Brandon Music Festival
July 2015
www.cflt.ie
Gooikoorts International Folk Music Festival
July 3rd – 5th, 2015
www.gooikoorts.be
Willie Clancy Summer School
Miltown Malbay, County Clare
July 4th – 12th, 2015
www.scoilsamhraidhwillieclancy.com
Carrick Water Music Festival
Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim
July 2015
carrickwatermusicfestival.com
Rencontres International de Luthiers et Maîtres Sonneurs/Meeting of instrument makers and master piper
July 2015
www.rencontresdeluthiers.org
South Sligo Summer School of Traditional Music, Song & Dance
July 12th – 18th, 2015
www.sssschool.org
Catskills Irish Arts Week
July 12th - 18th, 2015
www.catskillsirishartsweek.com
East Durham Irish Trad Fest
July 18th, 2015
www.catskillsirishartsweek.com
Meitheal Residential Summer School 2014
July 20th – 24th, 2015
www.tradweek.com
Ardara Bluegrass Festival
July 17th - 19th, 2015
www.Ardara.ie
Joe Mooney Summer School
July 18th – 25th, 2015
www.joemooneysummerschool.com
Fiddlers Green International Festival
July 19th – 26th, 2015
www.fiddlersgreenfestival.co.uk
Scoil Acla Summer School
July 25th - August 1st, 2015
www.scoilacla.com
Dublin Ohio
Irish Festival, USA
July 31st – August 2nd, 2015
www.dublinirishfestival.org
Ballyshannon Folk Festival
Ballyshannon, County Donegal
30th July - 2nd August, 2015
www.ballyshannonfolkfestival.com
AUGUST
FLEADH Cheoil na hEireann Sligo
August 9th – 16th, 2015
www.fleadhcheoil.ie
James Morrison
Traditional Music Festival
August 2015
www.comhaltas.ie
O’Carolan, Harp &
Traditional Music Festival
Keadue, Co. Roscommon
August 2015
www.ocarolanharpfestival.ie
Féile Cheoil
Chill Chartha
Kilcar Fleadh, Kilcar,
County Donegal
August 2015
Carmel Gunning Summer School Festival
August 2015
email: carmelgunning09@gmail.com
Feakle International
Traditional Music Festival
August 5th – 10th, 2015
www.feaklefestival.ie
The Irish Fair of Minnesota
August 7th – 9th, 2015
www.irishfair.com
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention
United Kingdom
August 7th – 9th, 2015
www.fairportconvention.com
Bath Folk Festival
August 2015
www.bathfolkfestival.org
Milwaukee Irish Fest
Milwaukee, USA
August 13th – 16th, 2015
www.irishfest.com
Masters of Tradition Festival
Bantry, County Cork
August 19th – 23rd, 2015
www.westcorkmusic.ie
National Heritage Week
August 22nd – 30rd, 2015
www.heritageweek.ie
Tonder Festival
Denmark
August 27th – 30th, 2015
www.tf.dk
Coleman Traditional Festival
August 20th – 23rd, 2015
www.colemanirishmusic.com
Cornwall Folk Festival in Wadebridge
England
August 28th – 31st, 2015
www.cornwallfolkfestival.com
SEPTEMBER
Rathmines Tradfest
Dublin
September 2015
www.RathminesTradfest.com
The Peninsula Sessions
September 2015
www.festivalofthepeninsula.info
Gig’n the Bann Music
and Dance Festival
Portglenone, County Antrim
September 2015
www.gignthebann.com
Dingle Tradfest
Dingle, County Kerry
September 2015
www.dingletradfest.com
Gerry Whelan Memorial Weekend
Cootehill, Co. Cavan
September 2015
www.gerrywhelanweekend.com
Tulla Trad Festival
Tulla, County Clare
September 2015
www.tullatradfestival.ie
Tuam Trad Festival
Tuam, County Galway
September 2015
www.tuamtradfestival.com
Johnny Doherty Traditional
Music and Dance Festival
September 2015
www.Ardara.ie
Irish Music At Pordic, Brittany, France
September 2015
www.irishconnection.fr
The Irish Festival of Oulu
30th September – October 4th, 2015
Oulu, Finland
www.irkku.fi
OCTOBER
O’Carolan Harp,
Cultural & Heritage Festival
October 2015
Nobber, Co. Meath
www.carolanfestival.com
Cork Folk Festival
October 2015
www.corkfolkfestival.com
Ed Reavy Traditional Music Festival
October 15th - 18th, 2015
www.cavantowncomhaltas.ie
Celtic Colours
International Festival
Cape Breton Island, Canada
October 9th - 17th, 2015
www.celtic-colours.com
New York Trad Fest
October 2015
www.newyorktradfest.org
Galway Bay Irish Music Festival
October 2015
www.galwaybayirishpub.com
Youghal Gathering Events
October 2015
www.corkrebelweek.com
Feile Frank McGann Irish
Traditional Music Festival
October 2015
www.feilefrankmcgann.com
Tyneside Irish
Festival
United Kingdom
October 2015
www.tynesideirish.com
Scoil Cheoil
na Botha
October 2015
Scotstown, County Monaghan
www.anbhoth.ie
Return to Camden
Town Festival
October 2015
www.returntocamden.org
Patrick O’ Keeffe
Traditional Music Festival
Castleisland, County Kerry
October 2015
www.patrickokeeffe.net
Sligo Live Festival
Bank Holiday Weekend, Sligo
October 21st – 26th, 2015
www.sligolive.ie
NOVEMBER
Copenhagen
Irish Festival
Copenhagen, Denmark
November 2015
www.irishfestival.dk
Ennis Trad Festival
Ennis, County Clare
November 2015
www.ennistradfestival.com
The Trip to Birmingham Tradfest
November 2015
www.birminghamtradfest.co.uk
William Kennedy Piping Festival
Armagh
November 2015
www.armaghpipers.com
