Clifden Music Festival 2013 !

Clifden Traditional Music Festival is on its 4th year. This year, the festival takes place from the 4th to 7th April and will play the best of Irish music, song and dance with concerts, sessions, workshops and outdoor entertainment.

During that week, the whole city will be covered by great Irish music and dance. The very best musicians, singers, Sean nos and Irish dancers in Ireland will participate in it. Of course, you are more than welcome to join in them! If you think you are a big fan of music, you are crazy about music and dance, please come and enjoy the music weekend in Clifden!

The festival is made up of:

•    Official Opening and Concert
•    Music Workshops
•    Sean Nos Dance Workshop
•    Youth Sessions
•    Traditional Music Mass
•    Pub Sessions throughout the whole weekend
•    “Farewell Session” on Sunday

Contact:

Clifden Traditional Music Festival
Goulane
Clifden
Co. Galway

Telephone:  +353 86 4015342
Email: clifdencce@yahoo.ie
Website: http://www.clifdentradfest.com/

Galway Food Festival

On the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend, bring your family and friends to Galway food festival!

This year, the festival is bigger and better and extended to fives days. There are  75 restaurants participate in the fantastic food festival this year, and all the food is free to taste!

Don’t miss the opportunity to try different types of food! Bring your family and friends to participate the festival and enjoy the rest activities take place in Galway city!

For further information, please contact:

Galway City
Galway
Republic of Ireland

M: +353 86 1714383
E: info@galwayfoodfestival.com
W: www.galwayfoodfestival.com

St. Patrick’s Day Celebration!

Nowadays, Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide. But it is still most traditional to celebrate in Ireland.

Last week, we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day 2013 in Ireland. In Dublin, for the first time ever, St. Patrick’s festival invited 8,000 people to walk in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. The people’s parade took place on Sunday 17 March, passed many historical landmarks in Dublin city. People all enjoyed the spectacular performances and very much participated in it!

Not only in Dublin, in the rest cities of Ireland, fantastic parades were on the streets as well.

Here are some photos of people’s parade.

         

         

For more photos, videos and events, check here !

As you know, St.Patrick’s Day is celebrated across the world, in America, it is also a great festival. Ireland and America have close relationship, the following video is a great and humorous speech from President Obama and the Prime Minister of Ireland Enda Kenny to celebrate St.Patrick’s Day at the White House 2013.

St. Patrick’s Day!

St. Patrick’s Day is a national day of Ireland,its also a cultural and religious holiday celebrated on 17th of March across the world.

Saint Patrick the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. St.Patrick is credited with bringing christianity to Ireland.

On the day, everybody wear green clothes, display shamrock and other green elements. Its already became a feature of St. Patrick’s Day.

Parades, evening fireworks, outdoor performances are the most attractive activities on St.Patrick’s Day, everybody will go out and enjoy the fantastic national day! At night, you cannot miss a pint of drink in  traditional Irish pubs, and you cannot miss the parties with Irish people on the day of celebration!

Want to know about the story of Saint Patrick? Here is a great video to show you the history directly!

The next blog, we will show you some brilliant pictures and videos of St. Patrick’s Day this year! Keep following us!