Ballina Festivals
in Mayo in the West of Ireland
Ballina Salmon Festival 2009
July 10th to July 19th
Incorporating Ballina Street & Arts Festival
Ballina
Salmon Festival Website
Live entertainment is one of the hallmarks of the week's events, music fills the streets varying from Traditional, Country & Western, Rock & Roll and Samba.
Travel back in a time capsule midweek and watch in awe as the Ballina community return to bygone days. Dress up in your grandparents clothes like the many who throng the streets amid the hustle of penny farthing bicycles and vintage cars, and experience the unique atmosphere of an Irish town in the eighteenth century.
This festival is one of the few in the County
which provides a complete array of events for children within the
festival programme. Events include art workshops and demonstrations,
computer challenges, an array of competitions, week long youth art
exhibitions and literary awards, etc, also open to adults. The
highlight of the children's programme is undoubtedly the spectacular
teddy bear's picnic where children and their parents enjoy an
afternoon of free entertainment. A surprise is in store as always
when up on 30,000 people view the internationally acclaimed festival
pageant production. The production focuses in on a particular theme
that is uniquely Mayo in character. It takes place on the banks of
the River Moy between the twin bridges with St Muredach's Cathedral
as a backdrop - a perfect amphitheatre setting for the pageant and
fireworks. Added to all this, street entertainment, Horse racing,
Western evening, Festival rag, Busking, Art and Photographic
Exhibitions, River Frolics etc. provide a cocktail that makes Ballina
the place to be in July.
For further information contact:
Ballina Salmon Festival Office
Teeling Street
Ballina
Tel: + 353 (0) 96 79814/5
Fax: + 353 (0) 96 79814
E-mail ballinastreetfestival@eircom.net
