Adam Ant and Wet Wet Wet to Headline Retro Rock Festival
1980s music icons Adam Ant and Wet Wet Wet are set to headline the UK’s biggest retro rock festival as it comes to Bangor’s Ward Park on Saturday August 6. Adam Ant is best known…
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Portaferry Sails & Sounds Festival Runs This Weekend
Some of the UK’s best traditional boats and sailing yachts are set to be on show this weekend as the Portaferry Sails & Sounds Festival gets underway. Lovers of folk music and regattas have a…
All-Island Harps Alive Festival to conclude in Dublin with a Commemoration of the Life of Prolific Musician and Collector Edward Bunting
Harpers and historians joined forces this month to celebrate the 230th anniversary of the first Harpers’ Assembly with five days of harp music and heritage in a unique cross-community series of events, concluding in Dublin…
Belfast Historian, Co Meath Harper and Limavady Genealogist at Harps Alive Festival
Belfast historian Mark Doherty, Co Meath harper Ciara Taaffe and Limavady genealogist Fiona Pegrum all took to the stage at the First Presbyterian Church on Rosemary Street, Belfast for the 2022 Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin…
Co Meath Harper Ciara Taaffe Takes To The Stage For Harps Alive Festival
Co Meath harper Ciara Taaffe took to the stage today at the First Presbyterian Church in Rosemary Street, Belfast to perform at the Denis Hempson, the Harper & his Legacy event for the 2022 Harps…
Derry Harper & Tyrone Fiddle Player Take To The Stage For Harps Alive Festival
Derry Harper Lauren O’Neill and Tyrone fiddle player Eugene O’Neill took to the stage last night at the Deer’s Head in Belfast as part of the 2022 Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival. They are…
Harps Alive Festival Launches at Linen Hall Library
Harpers and historians will take to the stage this weekend as part of the 2022 Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival. The festival, which launched last night (FRIDAY) at the Linen Hall library will see musicians hailing…
Co Wicklow Harper Join Harps Alive Festival Lineup This Weekend
Co Wicklow harper Rachel Duffy will be performing as part of the Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival in Belfast this weekend, which will bring together harpers and historians from all over Ireland to celebrate…
West Belfast To Host Harp Workshops, Talks and Concerts For Forthcoming Harps Alive Festival This Weekend
West Belfast is set to host a series of events during this weekend’s Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival. The festival which runs throughout the weekend in Belfast this week and ends with a commemorative…
Co Derry Harper Joins Harps Alive Festival Lineup This Weekend
Co Derry Harper Lauren O’Neill will be performing at the Harps Alive Festival | An Chruit Bheo | Harps Leevin in Belfast this weekend. Lauren will perform alongside fiddler Eugene McKenna at Strike Up The…
8 Free Events Taking Place This Weekend At The Harps Alive Festival In Belfast
Harpers and historians will join forces in July to celebrate the 230th anniversary of the Belfast Harpers’ Assembly with five days of music and heritage in a unique cross-community series of events. Organised by the…
Coleraine Sisters Join Harps Alive Festival Lineup This Weekend
Coleraine Sisters and Harpers Kathryn Weir and Susannah Weir are set to perform as part of the Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival in Belfast this weekend. This year’s Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival…
Co Monaghan Harper Join Harps Alive Festival Lineup This Weekend
Co Monaghan Harper Eilís Lavelle will be performing as part of the Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival in Belfast this weekend. Organised by the Harps Alive partnership, the festival will bring together the finest…
Armagh Harpers Join Harps Alive Festival Lineup This Weekend
Armagh Harpers Sylvia Crawford and Simon Chadwick will be performing as part of the Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival in Belfast this weekend. Having already opened with events in Magilligan and Mussenden Template last…
13 Events Happening At The Harps Alive Festival This Weekend
Harpers and historians will join forces in July to celebrate the 230th anniversary of the Belfast Harpers’ Assembly with five days of music and heritage in a unique cross-community series of events. Organised by the…
Co Antrim Harpers Join Harps Alive Festival Lineup This Weekend
Co Antrim Harpers Adam O’Neill, Gráinne Meyer, Kathryn Weir, Susannah Weir, and Katy Bustard will be performing as part of the Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival in Belfast this weekend. Organised by the Harps…
Over 50 Irish Harpers to Perform at Harps Alive Festival
Over 50 harpers will take to the stage throughout July as part of the 2022 Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival. Hailing from cities and counties across Ireland, north and south, including Dublin, Antrim, Armagh,…
Dublin Harper To Perform At Belfast Music Festival Concert This Weekend
Dublin-native Anne-Marie O’Farrell will be taking to the stage this weekend as one of the many harpers due to perform at the Harps Alive│An Chruit Bheo│Harps Leevin festival Gala Finale Concert. Growing up surrounded by…
Harps Alive Festival To Celebrate The Life & Times Of Denis Hempson At Mussenden Temple Next Week
Commemorating Denis Hempson, one of the greatest Irish traditional harpers, a live performance dedicated to his life and priceless legacy will open the Harps Alive/An Chruit Bheo/Harps Leevin festival 2022 on July 9. The event…
Harps Alive Festival Set To Celebrate Harping, History And Culture Across The Country
230th anniversary of Belfast Harpers’ Assembly brought to life Harpers and historians will join forces in July to celebrate the 230th anniversary of the Belfast Harpers’ Assembly with five days of music and heritage in…
29 Artists Taking Part In The 2022 Belfast City Blues Festival
Running from June 24-26, the Guinness Belfast City Blues Festival will be taking place in venues across the city, coming back in full swing after a virtual event in 2020 and a successful run in…
Bringing LIGHT to Black Box Belfast City Blues Festival 2022
Throughout the 1970s’ the band LIGHT dominated Belfast’s rock scene playing rock blues numbers across the city – and now they are set for a Black Box performance as part of the 13th Belfast City…
Musician Pat McManus To Perform At Annual Tribute to Rory Gallagher at Belfast City Blues Festival 2022
Northern Ireland musician Pat McManus is to perform at the Belfast City Blues Festival as part of the festival’s annual tribute to blues legend Rory Gallagher. Gallagher, who made Belfast his second musical home, will…
Take A Novel Journey Of Exploration At Belfast Book Festival
Translink’s Novel Journeys Book Club has teamed up with Belfast Book Festival for a special event highlighting self-exploration. Two of Northern Ireland’s most inspired writers will take to the stage for a focused panel discussion…
Brian Kennedy Gears Up For The Gathering
Singer songwriter looking forward to show at St Joseph’s Community Hub It’s a big week for Brian Kennedy, a new album being released and headlining The Gathering Festival at Belfast’s Sailortown’s St Joseph’s. Brian will…
BBC Radio Ulster Star Hugo Duncan Joins The Bill At Sailortown’s The Gathering Festival
Radio Ulster’s very own ‘Uncle Hugo’ Hugo Duncan will be taking to the stage to lead the Dockers Club Dance Off at the Dockers Club, Belfast on Friday 10th June from 4-6pm. The dance-off is…
Review: Ava Festival, Belfast
By Jade Hamill Since its launch in 2015, AVA has amassed a following unlike any other having been named the best festival in Ireland. Friday 5th- Saturday 6th June saw sunshine return to the city…
Belfast City Blues Festival Returns To Celebrate 13th Year
The 13th Guinness Belfast City Blues Festival is back and is set to take place over three days in 14 venues with 29 acts and almost 40 gigs. Taking place from 24th-26th June, the launch…
Four-Day Festival Announced In Belfast’s Sailortown Later This Month
A four-day festival is set to take place in Belfast’s Sailortown later this month. Organised by Sailortown Regeneration, The Gathering is an exciting festival taking place from Thursday June 9 to Sunday June 12th. The…
AVA Festival Returns- 2022
Taking place on the 3rd-4th June at Titanic Slipways, Belfast only a leap away from its former site at T13, all eyes are on the AVA festival which is set to bring in thousands of…
Belfast Harbour Partners With Belfast Photo Festival For Outdoor Gallery Exhibition
Belfast Harbour is partnering with Belfast Photo Festival to create a free outdoor gallery on Belfast’s waterfront, which over a period of six months will showcase world class photographic artists at the new City Quays…
The 22nd Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Is Back With A Bumper Programme Of Live Music, Comedy, Spoken Word, Theatre And Film
One of Northern Ireland’s most dynamic festivals – The 22nd Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival – is back, live and unleashed, from 28 April – 8 May. Nearly 150 events in a variety of venues across…
Entertainment: Blu Hydrangea To Front New Show, Hit The North Is Back, Osmonds Show For GOH, CQAF returns & more
Northern Ireland’s drag Queen of the World to front BBC show After winning BBC Three’s Drag Race UK’s versus The World Northern Ireland’s Blu Hydrangea will host Stitch, Please!, a three-part BBC series. Contestants, under…
Democracy Day Returns to Imagine!Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics!
The ever-popular ‘Democracy Day’ returns to Belfast’s most thought-provoking festival, the Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics on Friday 25th March. ‘Democracy Day’ is a collection of workshops, panel discussions and talks designed to encourage…
Armagh’s Home of St Patrick Festival Launches with a Big Celebratory Theme
UK City of Culture contender Armagh City reveals fresh festival bounce for 2022. St Patrick’s historical home, Armagh City, has launched a new and inspirational festival programme to celebrate the life and legacy of Ireland’s…
Ten Top Events at Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics 2022
The Imagine! Belfast Festival is looking forward to welcoming back audiences to its 8th annual programme of events taking place during 21-27 March. According to Peter O’Neill., Festival Director: “With only a week to go…
Derry To Dazzle This Month With Illuminate Festival
The historic Walled City of Derry will come to life in February with an immersive music and light festival called, ‘Illuminate’. Illuminate will brighten up the dark winter nights with a trail of live projection…
The Brand New Festival That Encourages A More Sustainable Belfast
Between November 2 and 12, the RE[act] festival takes place in Belfast’s Donegall Square for the first time in an exciting new city experience for 2021. The inspirational line up of talks, workshops and immersive…
Programme for 15th Outburst Queer Art Festival Announced
From epic to intimate, live to online, local to international, the fifteenth annual Outburst Queer Art Festival has an incredible array of art and events showcasing queer talent. With a centrepiece of Conor Mitchell’s MASS,…
Welcoming Back The Sound Of Belfast
The time has finally come for us to welcome back live music events and take in the rich culture of Belfast, and The Oh Yeah Music Centre has created the perfect programme of events to…
Spectacular Ogham Grove Opens Tonight In Cathedral Quarter
Cathedral Quarters Writers’ Square will tonight (September 17) be transformed into a spectacular installation from the creative team for CNB21 Presents: The Ogham Grove. From 6pm tonight through until Sunday evening visitors can experience an…
Father And Son Team Behind Massive Culture Night Installation
Monumental Ogham Grove interactive structure will dominate Writer’s Square Father and son team Gawain Morrison and Dylan McCaughtry will bring an ancient Celtic language to life with a massive construction across Belfast’s Writer’s Square for…
Meet The Artist: CNB21 Creative Artist Zipporah Reynolds
Zipporah (Zippy) Reynolds is a 28-year-old Freelance Artist from Banbridge, specialising in street art/illustration. For the past 9 years, she has been working as a Textile Artist for film and TV after studying Fashion Design…
An Ancient Language, A Living Structure – CNB21 Presents
Creative lead unveils thinking behind Ogham Grove This year’s Culture Night promises a spectacular structural, lighting and sound experience designed by Belfast artist Gawain Morrison around the ancient Druidic language Ogham. Promising to be both…
Culture Night Belfast 2021 Commits To Ambitious Sustainability Goals
As the conversation around climate change heats up ahead of COP26 in November, the team behind Culture Night Belfast 2021 have stated their ambitions for an “almost 100% sustainable event” this year. Partnering with artist…
All Aboard For Belfast Maritime Weekender
Belfast’s Maritime Mile is getting ready to host a two-day festival of family fun on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September. The Belfast Maritime Weekender will bring Belfast’s maritime and industrial history to life and…
Derry’s Carnival Of Colours Is Back
In Your Space Circus (IYSC) is bringing its flagship Circus, Arts and Music Festival, Carnival of Colours to the City Centre for the 14th edition of one of Derry’s favourite headline events. Carnival of Colours,…
Meet The Artist: CNB21 Creative Lead Gawain Morrison
Gawain Morrison is a Creative Producer and Director for Media, Events and Technology, from Belfast with 25 years of experience in the creative industry. He has worked within the likes of TV and film production,…
Culture Night Belfast Appoint Creative Lead For 2021 Project
The Cathedral Quarter Trust, the organisation behind Culture Night Belfast has appointed a Creative Lead for their 2021 project. Earlier this year Susan Picken, director of Culture Night Belfast and the Cathedral Quarter Trust, announced…
Docs Ireland Returns With 5 Days Of ‘True Stories On The Big Screen’
Policing, justice and political activism are just some of the highly topical themes of Docs Ireland, the international documentary film festival which returns to Belfast from 25 – 29 August. The third annual Docs Ireland…
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