
Event Update 2020
We are very sorry to announce the cancellation of the Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipe and Trad Festival 2020. We have spent...
Read MoreWe are very sorry to announce the cancellation of the Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipe and Trad Festival 2020. After consulting with businesses, artists and everyone else associated with the festival around West Cork and beyond, sadly it was inevitable with the current restrictions in place around Covid-19.
The next Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipe and Trad Festival will take place in June 2021. Keep an eye out for some Zoom and Facebook lIve events that will be happening on the weekend in place of the festival - should be fun and we hope you enjoy them!
Please stay safe and well and enjoy your music in the meantime. See you all soon.
The sound of the uilleann pipes will be taking centre-stage in the picturesque village of Glengarriff in West Cork with a festival of great music to beat them all. We will be joined by Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny, Ulaid, 3 On The Bund, Ross Ainslie and Padraig McGovern to name but a few. There will be something for everyone - all the info is here. We hope you enjoy!
Andy Irvine is one of the great Irish singers, his voice one of a handful of truly great ones that gets to the very soul of Ireland. He has been hailed as "a tradition in himself". Musician,...
READ MOREDónal Lunny is popularly regarded as having being central to the renaissance of Irish Music over the last three decades. Since the seventies Dónal has had involvement with some of...
READ MORE3 on the Bund are an exciting new band that came together in March of 2019 after meeting in the University of Limerick's prestigious Irish World Academy. Their complex, layered arrangements...
READ MOREJohn McSherry has been a major figure in Irish music for almost twenty years now and is hailed as one of the finest exponents of the art of Uilleann Piping in the world today — “a...
READ MORESon of the celebrated fiddler Gerry O’Connor and revered singer Eithne Ní Uallacháin of Lá Lugh, multi-instrumentalist Dónal O’Connor is establishing himself as one of Ireland’s...
READ MORESeán Óg Graham is a renowned guitar and accordion player and has performed and recorded with many of Irish traditional music’s top artists over the last 10 years. He is a founding...
READ MOREWe are very sorry to announce the cancellation of the Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipe and Trad Festival 2020. We have spent...
Read MoreWith all that is going around at the moment regarding the Covid-19 we are tentatively announcing that we can look forward...
Read MoreThe full Session Trail line up here; THURSDAY 20th JUNE The Blue Loo 9pm Tom Oakes, Ross Couperand Lorne MacDougall...
Read MoreThe Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipe and Trad Festival wish to thank the many agencies who have supported us in bringing you this great festival. Many thanks!