Sam Lee’s “Other Voices” (Ire/UK)
Sunday 17th July, 1.00pm Mercury Prize nominated Folk singer, song collector, promoter (of BBC award winning Nest Collective) radio host, TV personality, teacher and animateur, Sam Lee has journeyed across…
Richard Dawson supported by Robyn G. Shiels (Ire/UK)
Saturday 16th July, 8.00pm Richard Dawson is a skewed troubadour, at once charming and abrasive. His shambolically virtuosic guitar playing stumbles from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swatches of noise-colour, swathed…
Panel Discussion: Folk Song Now – Sam Lee, Grace Toland, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Ben Mandelson (Chair).
Sunday 17th July, 3.30pm Featuring Mercury Prize nominated English folk singer Sam Lee, Irish Traditional Music Archive TMA director Grace Toland, Altan’s Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and chaired by Ben Mandelson,…
Panel Discussion: The Relationship Between Irish and English Folk Song featuring Andy Irvine, Jerry O’Reilly and Chris Wood, Chaired by Grace Toland
Saturday 16th July, 4.30pm As part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary programme, the Regional Cultural Centre presents a panel discussion exploring the relationship between Irish and English folk song. It…
Public Talk: The Relationship Between Irish and English Folk Song – Jerry O’Reilly
Saturday 16th July, 3.30pm Following the theme of the 2nd Donegal Folk & Roots weekend and as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary programme, renowned festival Fear a Ti, Jerry…
Andy Irvine & Chris Wood (Ire/UK)
Saturday 16th July, 1.00pm An incredible lunchtime double bill featuring two of the worlds most renowned folk artists. Andy Irvine, one of the great distinctive voices in Irish traditional music…
Willie Doherty – Loose Ends
July 10th – September 24th Regional Cultural Centre in association with the Nerve Centre, Kerlin Gallery, Matt’s Gallery and Earagail Arts Festival present Willie Doherty – Loose Ends Loose Ends…
Lynched & Stick In The Wheel (Ire/UK)
Friday 15th July, 8.00pm Two of the most exhilarating and dynamic groups in folk music come together for one of the most unique commissions of this year’s Earagail Arts Festival.…
Chouk Bwa Libète (Haiti)
Thursday 14th July, 8.00pm Chouk Bwa Libète is one of the foremost traditional Haitian Mizik Rasin (Voodoo roots music) band from Haiti. A highlight of the WOMEX World Music Expo…
Bellows & Bows (Ire)
Wednesday 13th July, 8.00pm Bellows and Bows presents an evening of Uilleann Pipes and Fiddle music featuring tutors from this years Ceol na Coille summer school. Master Uilleann Piper Padráig…
Colin Dunne, Tola Custy, Maeve Gilchrist and David Power (Irl.)
Wednesday 21st September, 8.25pm Music Network is thrilled to present a new collaboration between the prodigiously talented dancer Colin Dunne, fiddler Tola Custy, harpist Maeve Gilchrist and uilleann piper David…
Distorted Perspectives – Soundtrack (Live Improvised Film Scores)
Sunday 1st May, 8.00pm An evening of live music specifically composed to accompany a selection of films, including a sound and vision mix of the surrealist ‘Meshes In The Afternoon’…
Distorted Perspectives 2016
April 29 – May 1 Donegal will play host to its third annual experimental music and art festival when Distorted Perspectives lands back in Letterkenny over the May Bank Holiday…
Official Launch of Bealtaine 2016
Tuesday 3rd May, 11.00am Launch of the 19th Annual Bealtaine Festival with guest speaker Grainne Haines from Active Ireland talking about Active EU Citizenship, followed by entertainment with Fergus Cleary…
Donegal Master Fiddlers
An Grianán Theatre – Saturday 14th May, 8.00pm The Donegal Master Fiddlers gala concert is a celebration of the lifetime achievement of four of the county’s greatest living traditional fiddlers,…
Men At Lunch (Film Screening)
Thursday 26th May, 8.00pm Director: Seán Ó Cualáin / Ireland/USA / 2013 / 71 minutes / Certificate : G Eleven ironworkers eat their lunch whilst casually sitting on an iron…
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