Temple Bar will be transformed into a trad music Mecca this week. For 5 days and nights, the cobbled streets will come alive with the sounds of stamping feat and a bodhrán beat. From the 27th-31st January, top traditional musicians will take to the stage across Dublin city centre to mark Temple Bar TradFest , a celebration of Irish music and culture.
Free events
Free events include photography exhibitions, film screenings and pipe band performances. Kilfenora Céilí band are sure to provide a festival highlight when they headline a free outdoor céilí at Meeting House Square on Sunday 31st January.
Free family entertainment
The programme also includes free family orientated events. Entertainment will be provided by various street performers on Saturday and Sunday evening, from 12pm - 4pm. On Sunday, a parade will wind through the streets from 12.30 pm - 1.30pm. The colourful spectacle, featuring costumes by Buí Blog, will travel via Dame Street, College Green, Fleet Street and Temple Bar finishing at the Civic Offices on Wood Quay.
Admission fees
If you can afford to put your hand in your pocket, other worthwhile events include the Cultural workshops (experience sean nós singing and dancing for €12) and Trad movie screenings in the IFI (tickets €7.75).
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