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21st Fiddler’s Green Festival IT’S hard to believe
21 years have passed since the Fiddler’s Green Festival in Rostrevor
in Co. Down hung out its banners to welcome the late, great musician Sean
McGuire into its Hall of Fame in 1987.
To celebrate its 21st birthday the festival from July 22-29 is honouring
two of the greatest names in the shaping of Irish music over the past
50 years and more.
The first recipients are Sweeney’s Men who were in the Irish charts
in 1967 with amongst others the old Scots ballad The Old Maid In The Garret
and who had a huge impact on what would later become known as Celtic music.
The second recipients are the McPeakes of Belfast without whom songs
like The Singing Bird, The Jug Of Punch and I’ll Tell My Ma might
never have been heard.
Completing the main line-up are Eddi Reader, Brian Kennedy, Cara Dillon,
Flook, Steve Cooney and Laoise Kelly, Frankie Kennedy and Hibernian Rhapsody
and The Sands Family.
Free outdoor entertainment runs throughout the week featuring the best
of local and visiting talent and the Eddie McIntyre Céilí
band is guaranteed to set your feet dancing.
There is an excellent range of alternative activities to choose from including
local organised walks, boating, films and discussions and workshops in
classical music, African drumming, bodhran, blues harmonica, traditional
singing and Appalachian dulcimer.
Tickets available from the Festival Office, 5-8 Mary Street, Rostrevor,
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