Sessions and festivals
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:
- The Willie Clancy summer school, Miltown Malbay (July)
- Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann. All Ireland trad festival, in Belfast this year (August)
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)
A great page which has a list of trad music festivals worldwide is the Irish music magazine