Links > Tours & Festivals
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
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 2012
www.kilfenorainfo.com
Folk, Blues & Bluegrass Festival
April 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 2012
www.dungloe.info
Wimborne Folk Festival
Dorset, England
June 8th – 10th, 2012
www.wimbornefolkfestival.co.uk
The Galway Sessions
June 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 2012
www.londonfeis.com
Blas Summer School
University of Limerick, Limerick
June 2012
www.blas.ie
Coleman Country Bodhran School
Gurteen, County Sligo
June 2012
www.colemanbodhran.com
JULY
Willie Clancy Summer School
Miltown Malbay, County Clare
July 2012
www.oac.ie
Carrick-on-Shannon Water Music Festival
Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim
July 2012
www.carrickonshannonwatermusic.com
Earagail Arts Festival
July 2012
www.eaf.ie
Celtic Fusion International
Musical Arts Festival
July 2012
www.celticfusion.co.uk
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
Oland Celtic
Irish Music Festival
July 26th – 28th, 2012
www.olandceltic.com
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 8th – August 13th, 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 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 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 2012
www.tuamtradfestival.com
Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival
Longford
September 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 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 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 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 2012
www.armaghpipers.com
DECEMBER
Frankie Kennedy Winter School
County Donegal
December 2012
www.frankiekennedy.com
