22—25 MARCH 2019

PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 8.30 PM SUNDAY 12 NOON
22 24
BALLYLIFFIN HOTEL THE NORTH POLE BAR, DRUMFRIES

Opening Address Music Session

by Kevin McGonigle, Chairperson ITSC
3.00 PM THE NORTH POLE BAR, DRUMFRIES

8.45 PM BALLYLIFFIN HOTEL North Pole Session

Launch of My Parents Reared hosted by Kevin McGonigle
Me Tenderly 9.00 PM MAC TAM‘S BAR, CLONMANY
Celebrating 30 Years of the Inishowen Singing Weekend
with Grace Toland and Members of the Inishowen
Mac Tam’s Session
Traditional Singers’ Circle hosted by Eleanor Lamb

10.00 PM BALLYLIFFIN HOTEL

Home & Away Session

MONDAY 12 NOON
25
THE RUSTY NAIL, CROSSCONNELL, CLONMANY

hosted by Lucy Donaghey and Jim MacFarland

Farewell Session

SATURDAY 11.00 AM
23
DEPARTS BALLYLIFFIN HOTEL
The Festival Shop The Irish Traditional
Song Bus Tour will be open Friday evening and
Music Archive (ITMA)
to Buncrana & Desertegney led by Colm Toland Saturday/Sunday morning at the will be recording events and
Ballyliffin Hotel. singers during the weekend.
A Tribute to Mick Quinn Armagh
presented by Jim Flynn at Fort Dunree
Song Bus Tour 2019 Tullagh
Pollan
Bay Isle of Doagh
Bay

3.00 PM MCFEELEY’S BAR, CLONMANY

Dunaff
Head Ballyliffin
Clonmany
Inishowen Singers’ Dunaff

Circle Session Carndonagh

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7.00 PM BALLYLIFFIN HOTEL Ur

Seminar Dinner Dunree

Head Drumfree Slieve Snaght
615 m
Aghaweel Hill

9.00 PM BALLYLIFFIN HOTEL

Festival Concert Ballymagan

featuring: The Quinn Family, Armagh; The McGonigle

Family, Inishowen; Cloontagh and Rashenny National Buncrana
Schools; Patricia Flynn and Luke Cheevers; Members of
the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle

BALLYLIFFIN HOTEL

Late session
GUESTS

The Quinn Family, Armagh The McGonigle Family, Inishowen Cloontagh and Rashenny National Schools

Patricia Flynn Luke Cheevers Members of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle

REGISTRATION SPONSORS ITSC

Weekend Registration €50 The Inishowen Seminar is
generously supported by The
Concession €30 Arts Council, Donegal County
Council, Bursary Sponsors,
Entry to all events and inter-venue transport. Ballyliffin Hotel, McFeeley‘s
Except Song Bus Tour - separate charge entering bus. Bar, The North Pole Bar, Mac
Your registration supports the running of the weekend and Tam‘s Bar, Rusty Nail Bar, and
other events hosted by ITSC. your registration.
The Inishowen Traditional
SIngers’s Circle (ITSC) was
formed in 1988 to foster,
encourage and perpetuate
the folk song and ballad
tradition of the Inishowen
peninsula.

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