Venue: Sligo City Hall, Sligo
Three of Sligo’s leading musicians – accordion player PJ Hernon, fiddle player Philip Duffy and keyboard player Catherine McHugh.
Venue: St Colmcille’s Well Doonierin
Guided walk by local archaeologist Tamlyn McHugh. (note that this event is fully sold out.)
Venue: Sligo City Hall
Lecture by Dr Robert Hensey.
Venue: Sligo City Hall
A tribute in spoken word and music to a legendary Sligo composer.
Venue: Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery
Guided walk by Dr Robert Hensey.
Venue: Sligo City Hall
Lecture by Dr Fiona Gallagher & Joe McGowan.
Venue: Sligo City Hall A tribute in spoken word and music to a legendary fiddle player.
Venue: Sligo City Hall
Lecture by Wendy Lyons & Nicholas Prins
Venue: Hazelwood House Guided walk by Durcan O’Hara
Venue: Coach House Hotel, Ballymote, Co. Sligo
Film Screening with Q&A with director.
Venue: Slish Wood
Walk in the footsteps of Ireland’s most famous poet WB Yeats as we bring you through Slish Wood along parts of the Sligo Way and onto the boardwalk overlooking Lough Gill. You will hear some of the poetry recited at the locations that inspired Yeats, and discover why the Sligo landscape continued to play a central role in the writings of Ireland’s foremost poet throughout his lifetime. Led by Susan O’Keeffe, Director of the Yeats Society, Sligo.
Venue: Knocknashee
Musicians in south Sligo who developed the Sligo Style of playing fiddle and flute music in particular, were inspired by the countryside that surrounded them. Nowhere overlooks this terrain more than the Hill of Knocknashee. Translated as Cnoc na Sídhe (Hill of the Faeries), Knocknashee is an ancient place which was inhabited in ancient times and where two large stone cairns sit on it’s table top summit. A new walkway has been built up the side of Knocknashee, and for this walk, we will be joined by a number of musicians who will play tunes and sing songs on the summit of Knocknashee.
Artists / performers and crew partaking in the Connacht Fleadh have their fees funded by the Local Live Performance Programming Scheme Phase III, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
