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Sessions and festivals

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Sessions

If you don't know what a session is, check out the session etiquette page

For Galway city sessions, have a look at Session City Galway's Facebook page where they post an updated list of Galway's weekly session every week.

*** The Fleadhwers (the group in which Lauriane plays) are playing in Blake's bar, Eglinton street every Thursday and Sunday from 8.30pm to 10 30pm, come and say hi, all musicians are welcome! ***

For Cork city sessions, click on their sessions website

For Dublin city sessions, go to the Cobblestone pub, they have sessions daily there

For Limerick city sessions, here are a few of their weekly sessions

For Belfast city sessions, check out their Facebook link

For the rest of the towns and cities worldwide, go to thesession.org, 

Trad Festivals

There are loads of trad festivals, all year round in Ireland and the rest of the world.

 

The most popular ones in Ireland are:

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- The Willie Clancy summer school, Miltown Malbay (July)

Belfast trad fest (July) 

- Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann. All Ireland trad festival, in Belfast this year (August)

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Some smaller festivals which are also popular:

 

- Russell festival weekend, Doolin, Clare (February)

- Tullamore trad fest, Offaly (March)

- Lahinch trad fest, Clare (April)

- Cuckoo festival, Kinvara, Galway (Early May)

- Fleadh Nua, Ennis, Clare (End of May) 

- Dungarvan trad festival , Waterford (June) 

- South Sligo Summer School , Tubbercurry, Sligo (July)

- Joe Mooney Summer School , Drumshambo, Leitrim (July)​

- Scoil Acla, Achill island, Mayo (July)

Féile Cheoil Larry Reynolds , Ballinasloe, Galway (September)

-Patrick O'Keefe festival, Castleisland, Kerry (October)

Cooley-Collins Traditional Music Festival, Gort, Galway (October)

- Ennis Trad Fest, Clare (November)

There are also specific festivals for fiddle and concertina players, other instruments are welcome to join the sessions of course:

Fiddle:

​- Baltimore Fiddle Fair, Cork (May)

Concertina:

Concertina Cruinniú, Miltown Malbay, Clare (February)

Consairtín, Ennis, Clare (April)

 

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A great page which has a list of trad music festivals worldwide is the Irish music magazine

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