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O'Carolan Harp & International Traditional Music Festival

The O'Carolan Harp and Traditional Music Festival is held in Keadue, County Roscommon every August Bank Holiday,.

The Festival was started in Keadue in 1978, to commemorate the famous Harper Turlough O'Carolan who lived in the area and is buried beside Keadue. Keadue is a small village of 200 people located on the shores of Lough Meelagh at the foot of the Arigna Mountains. The Festival includes Concerts, Ceili, Tuition on the Harp, Set Dancing, Harp Recitals and a Harp Competition with €2500 in Prizes.

This year the winner of the Senior Harp Competition will recieve a specially engraved trophy, plus 600 Euros. Turlough O'Carolan was a great Harper and Composer and his memory is celebrated not alone in Keadue but throughout the world by so many musicians who play his music. Among the groups that have played at the O'Carolan Harp Festival over the years include Maire NiChathasaigh and Chris Newman, Belfast Harp Orchestra, Grainne Yeats, Derek Bell, Harpers Bizaar, The Chieftans, De Danna, Foster & Allen, Arcady, Dervish, Skylark, P.J. Murphy and Seamus Shannon. ........... ( HARP COMPETITION DETAILS )
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