A weekend of Traditional Irish Music, Culture & Heritage
The 9th Féile Cheoil Larry Reynolds takes place in Ballinasloe from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th of September. A weekend which was established to commemorate the life of Larry Reynolds but also to promote the East Galway Style of Music and to encourage and develop Irish Music, Heritage and Culture in the region. It promises to be a weekend of "Cheoil, Craic, Cultúr agus Spraoi"...Show/Hide more info.
Highlights of the weekend include a Concert in The Pillar House Gibbons featuring Mícheál and MacDara Ó’Raghallaigh, it promises to be a superb evening of Irish Songs and Music. Tickets are €5 and can be
booked online here.
There will Music, workshops at various venues in the town with some of the finest tutors in the business, a Photo Exhibition of “Larry Reynolds & and other Muscians from East Galway”, Craft Exhibitions on the street, an Irish Music Pub Trail, an Historical Walking Tour of Ballinasloe, A Lecture on The East Galway Style of Music in Ballinasloe Town Library presented by Sean Moloney, a Céilí in Gullanes ’s Hotel with the UI Bhriann Céilí Band all the way from Kerry, a Junior Session in The Dunlo Tavern, as well as many other trad seisiún during the weekend. Click here for full details of the weekend’s events.
On Sunday Sept 8th we have Manus Mc Guire, Gary O'Brien from Buttons and Bows , are joined by Dermot Byrne Altan for a free outdoor concert on Sunday 8th at 3pm in Old Library car park society Steeet Ballinasloe. On Sunday Sept 8th There is a family fun day in the old library car park from 12pm to 5pm where there will be on street entertainmnet, large games, street performers and music.
On Saturday 5th at 4pm Féile Cheoil Larry Reynolds will host the Fifth Year of an Open All-Ireland Fiddle Competition which has a prize fund of €250 with the Larry Reynolds Perpetual Trophy for 1st Place and a Trophy for 2nd Place.
Ballinasloe looks forward to welcoming you, the town will be alive with Irish Music, Heritage & Culture, don’t miss it !