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Press Release Launch 12th January 2010
Today, Tuesday 12th January programmer Kieran Hanrahan announced details of the forthcoming Festival at a reception in The Clarence Hotel. Ireland’s oldest Céilí band, the Kilfenora Céilí Band, marked the launch with a very special performance on the roof of The Clarence Hotel.
The programme which includes a line up of some of the most iconic figures in Irish traditional music coupled with the big performers of the future will mark the 5th birthday of Dublin’s Irish Music and Culture Festival which this year includes an expanded programme featuring many free and family orientated events.
In his message in the 2010 programme Festival patron Stephen Rea said ‘TradFest has been an ambitious and broad-ranging national event, not only firming up Dublin’s reputation as the great traditional music centre we know it is, but also providing a focus for traditional music nationally and internationally, where musicians and listeners from home and abroad can join together, meet and play. These are difficult economic times for contemporary Ireland, but traditional music has seen times like this before. It lifted us in the past, and it will continue to sustain us in the future. Our diverse and vibrant culture, which every person on this island can enjoy, is our advantage on the world stage. Engage with it and it can nourish and inspire you’.
Speaking of the 2010 TradFest programmer Kieran Hanrahan said ‘Our objective for 2010 is to provide the public with the widest variety of acts, the majority of which are free, all in the heart of Dublin’s Cultural Quarter, Temple Bar.’
- For more information or bookings Tel: 01 6772397 or email trad@tascq.ie
