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 Park Hotel
Comhaltas Connacht Council have organised an evening to pay tribute to Michael Brennan in recognition of many years of service to Comhaltas.
Venue: Sligo City Hall Lecture by Nicholas Prins.
Venue: Annaghmore House Guided walk by Durcan O’Hara
Music from the Gig Rig at Stephen St Car Park, Sligo.
Venue: Coach House Hotel, Ballymote, Co. Sligo
Film Screening with Q&A with director. ‘Trílangue – Trílangue – Montréal-based masters ensemble presenting traditional Québécois, Irish and Scottish music, song and dance will precede the film screening. Music to follow from CCÉ Paddy Killoran.
Venue: County Hall and Riverside Hotel
A civic ceremony by Sligo County Council to honour Gerry McGwynne at County Hall, Riverside, Sligo. Followed by music session at the Riverside Hotel, Sligo.
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.
Venue: Thomas Connolly’s Pub, Sligo
Musicians come together at Thomas Connolly’s pub in Sligo to conclude this year’s Connacht Fleadh. All are welcome, especially musicians.
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.
