Fiddle Fair Presents
Fiddle Fair presents 3 very special concerts in August at Glebe Gardens Amphitheatre, Baltimore
First up on Sat 7th is the incredible Eddi Reader. Eddi is one of the best singers on the planet and has been entertaining audiences since she even before she burst to fame as the singer with Fairground Attraction. She is one of Scotland's biggest stars with a voice to die for - she's also great fun and will be bringing her very cool band along with her for what should be a very special night.
Then on Friday 13th we present Declan O' Rourke. One of the great songwriters to appear in recent times. Declan can count many big names among his fans including Paul Weller, Snow Patrol and Kate Rusby. Great songs and great singing.
And on Wed 18th in association with the Baltimore Lifeboat we present the amazing Lisa Hannigan and band for her only Irish show of 2010. This girl is simply the best voice to come out of Ireland for years and this show is sure to sell out very quickly. All proceeds form this gig will be going to the Baltimore Lifeboat.
Tickets for the three Glebe Gardens Shows are now on sale here at fiddlefair.com.
Eddi Reader €21
Declan O' Rourke €21
Lisa Hannigan €26
So that's it for now....just a typical quiet summer here in Baltimore
Hope to see you at some of these gigs
All the best
Declan
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The Fiddle Fair Also Recommends ...
The Fiddle Fair are heavily involved with the Skibbereen Arts Festival which takes place in Skibb for the week leading up to Cork X Southwest. There’s an amazing programme of events which can be seen on www.skibbereenartsfestival.com.
Fiddle Fair is particularly involved with the very special 'Canon Goodman Gala Concert' in the beautiful Abbeystrewery Church in Skibbereen on Sunday 25th July featuring Steve Cooney, M´irtín O’Connor & Seosaimhín Ní Beaglaoich and Chris Stout and Catríona McKay.
This concert truly will be amazing and will be a fitting tribute to the remarkable man that was Canon James Goodman.
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The Fiddle Fair Recommends Cork X SouthWest
Hey everyone out there in Fiddle Fair Land.
Apologies to all of you waiting on this years Fiddle Fair Wrap but it will be coming along some fine day now. Those of us who were there will have lots of good memories I'm sure.
The reason we're 'slack' on the 'ol wrap front is that we went straight from Fiddle Fair to Cork X Southwest mode (and you though life was pretty easy around here). Cork X Southwest is a one-day music festival we started a couple of years ago (because one festival is never enough right?) in Skibbereen.
This years edition takes place on Sat 31st July with 4 stages and almost 50 acts including Martha Wainwright's only Irish gig of 2010, the amazing Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang, The Hothouse Flowers, The Handsome Family, Mick Flannery, John Spillane, The Céilí All Stars, Jinx Lennon, Future Trad Collective and loads more.
Full details available on www.corkxsw.com
Hope to see you there.
Declan
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Fiddle Fair
Until Declan finds time to give us a proper wrap, Paul Keating of Irish Central provides a fine recap of the weekend.
"Kudos to the McCarthys and all the others who endeavor to make this the wonderful weekend it was. Full of sunshine, friendship, craic and most of all great music in a beautiful part of the world. Go Raibh Mile Maith Agat. Hard to do justice to all that went on over four beautiful days but you'll just have to experience it yourselves." --Paul Keating, Irish Central
Go to the Irish Central to read the story.
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First Day Underway!
Early reports from West Cork have the weather as beautiful as the music! Angels are in the Marquee!! Still time to get down to Baltimore and witness the beauty of the Fiddle Fair.
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One Week To Fiddle Fair 2010
Only 1 week left to book to book tickets for Fiddle Fair 2010. Workshops and Sessions have just been added. The Baltimore Fiddle Fair is a very unique festival in that it consistently features a world class line-up of national and international artists, yet presents them in intimate settings in the beautiful seaside village of Baltimore, West Cork.
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FiddleFair 2010 line up almost there
Hey everyone in Fiddle Fair land - I hope the year is treating you well.
The good news is that the Fiddle Fair is taking place in Baltimore from 6th to 9th of May and tickets will be going on sale very soon.
We are quite late this year in finalising the festival because the economic situation in Ireland meant that funding for the Arts was going to be cut and decisions which are normally made in October were not able to be made until late January.
Unfortunately this meant that we were unable to put together the line-up until we knew what the outcome would be.
Thanks to our friends in the Arts Council of Ireland, our cut hasn't been too bad and we will once again present a top class very exciting line-up of musicians from near and far over the 4 days in beautiful Baltimore.
Highlights include the one and only Kevin Burke, The Alan Kelly Quartet featuring Tola Custy, legendary Clare fiddler Tony Linnane with Lúnasa's Kevin Crawford, Irelands finest harpist Laoise Kelly with the beautiful fiddler Michelle O'Brien, the three Glackin brothers Paddy, Kevin and Seamus and Irelands best 'Old Time' group I Draw Slow.
Some amazing fiddlers from Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Andrea Beaton and Troy Macgillivray , Una Palliser and The Balkan Bears from Slovenia.
As usual there'll be a selection of top class workshops and numerous sessions going on all weekend
I'm really excited by this line-up and it promises to be as good if not better than last years tremendous Fiddle Fair.
Tickets will be going on sale on St Patrick's Day (March 17th) and the full programme will be up on this page in the next few days
Hope to see you in May
All the best
Declan
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