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The Holy Cross Accordion Band Attical at the Fleadh Cheoil in 2014. The Fleadh Cheoil (Irish pronunciation: [ˌfʲlʲaː ˈçoːlʲ]), or "music festival" in English, is an annual Irish arts festival and competition run by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkoːl̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ ˈcoːl̪ˠt̪ˠoːɾʲiː ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]), or CCÉ, a non-profit organisation which aims to ...
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending, performance art , and social activities.
Electronic music festivals in Ireland (2 C, 8 P) Eurovision Song Contest 1971 (3 C, 1 P) Eurovision Song Contest 1981 (3 C, 2 P) Eurovision Song Contest 1988 (3 C, 1 P)
The largest attendance for a ticketed concert (220,000) The following is a list of the most-attended concerts which have drawn at least 100,000 people. The oldest 100,000-crowd show reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead at Englishtown's Raceway Park on September 3, 1977, with 107,019 fans.
Oxegen, for two consecutive years, was named as the Best European Festival in a poll which included festivals from France, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and other countries, leading The Sunday Business Post ' s Nicola Cooke to describe it as "one of the most successful music festivals in Ireland has ". [17]
The first festival began on Friday 27 October 1978, and has been held every year (except in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). [2] [3] The festival is Ireland's biggest jazz event and attracts hundreds of musicians and thousands of music fans to the city each year. [4] Jim Mountjoy founded the festival in October 1978. [5]
Longitude Festival is a music festival that takes place during July every year in Dublin, Ireland. Since 2013, Marlay Park has been home to the festival. It is organised by MCD Productions and Festival Republic .
The first Harvest Time Blues festival took place in 1990, to "promote and enrich the cultural life of Monaghan, the North-East and Ireland". [weasel words] [citation needed] The festival was an initiative between Somhairle MacConghail, the Arts Officer for County Monaghan, and local publican and blues enthusiast Seamus McKenna.