May 2024

The 29th Feile Chois Cuain will take place from Friday, 3rd May to Monday, 6th May 2024.

The event is a traditional music festival that attracts music enthusiasts from many parts of Ireland and abroad.

It has earned an enviable reputation as one of Ireland’s premier traditional festivals, with many of Ireland’s most revered performers returning year after year.

It is renowned for the high quality of its informal sessions in pubs and streets all over the weekend. Everybody is welcome to join the music, sing a song, play a tune or dance a step.

It is also well known for the concerts and for the classes in every traditional instrument, such as accordion, fiddle, flute, tin whistle, concertina and banjo and in sean-nos singing, ballads and set dance.

The Official launch will be at An Bhun Abhainn from 9.30 pm to 11.30 pm on Friday 3rd May

Also, on Friday, the Youth Concert will take place, featuring local and visiting artists In the Parochial Hall

There will be music in all local pubs.

The 2024 Programme is the following:

Gearóid Ó Droighneáin:

Saturday 4th May

• Masterclasses Ballads from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm. Tutor: Eoin O’Donnell

• Masterclasses Set Dance Workshop from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm.Tutors: Pádraig and Roisin McEneany

• Masterclasses Singing Sean Nós from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm.Tutor: Colm Jimmy O’ Curraoin

• Masterclasses Dancing Sean Nós from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm. Tutor: Gearóid Ó Droighneáin

• Masterclasses Group Performance for Teenagers from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm. Tutor: Maggie Maguire

• Masterclasses Banjo from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm.Tutor: Tom Cussen

• Masterclasses Concertina from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm.Tutors: Conor O’Loughlin, Aidan Quigney

• Masterclasses Tin Whistle from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm.Tutors:Éimhear Flannery, Deirdre Hurley

• Masterclasses Accordion from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm.Tutors: Anne Conroy Burke, Fiachna Ó Mongáin

• Masterclasses Fiddle from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm.Tutors: Aidan Connolly, Eileen O’Brien

• Masterclasses Flute from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm. Tutors: Sarah Jane Woods, Barry Conaty

• Club na Féile from 11.00am to 12.30 pm.

• Sessions from 4.15 pm to 6.00 pm

• Festival Concert from 8.00 pm to 10.30 pm in the Parochial Hall.

Sunday 5th May

• Musical Friendships from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm

• Dance Social from 9.00 pm to 11.30 pm.

Monday 6th May

• Slán Abhaile Sessions from 12.30 pm to 4.00 pm.