2025 Festival Schedule
Thursday 27th February
Official Festival Opening with Dr. Colette Moloney Voices Preserved: Song texts in the Edward Bunting Manuscripts
3:00pm | Belfast Cathedral | Free Event While there are only a few original English-language songs preserved in the Bunting manuscripts, the c.500 Irish texts (excluding duplicates) included constitute ...
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Friday 28th February
Turmenann Harps – The Science, Craft and Skill of Harp Making
11:00am | Linen Hall Library – Belfast | Free Event Brian Waugh, Owner of Turmennan Harps Lisburn, County Antrim, delivers rare insights, explanation and education on just what it ...
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Bunting’s Original Manuscript Presentation and Viewing
2:30pm | Queen’s University Archives, The McClay Library – Belfast | Free Event Exhibition of the Edward Bunting Manuscripts Queen’s University Belfast has held the Edward Bunting Collection since ...
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Edward Bunting, Church Organist – An Evening Back in Time
7:30pm | Parish Church of St. George – Belfast | Free Event Celebrate, as we prepare for a permanent instalment of a Bunting Display at St. George’s Church, Belfast ...
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Saturday 1st March
Master of the State of Music in the Eighteenth Century
Bunting’s Links to Earlier Collections
11:00am | 2 Royal Avenue, Belfast | Free Event Dr. Estelle Murphy, Interim Co-Head Department of Music, Maynooth University Many of the tunes in Bunting’s collection have links to earlier ...
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Traditional Dance Showcase and Audience Ceilidh
2:30pm | 2 Royal Avenue, Belfast | Free Event Cross Community Dancer Showcase. Participation warmly welcomed and encouraged! Highland dancers and Irish dancers wow the crowd with their respective skills ...
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Headline Concert – Music in the Glen with the Festival CEOL Band
7:30pm | 2 Royal Avenue, Belfast | Free Event Delivering the infectious rhythms that reach the very soul of traditional music, Music in the Glen is an exciting trio forged ...
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Sunday 2nd March
Edward Bunting, A Purveyor of Harmonic Crudities Guilty as charged?
2:30pm | Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast | Free Event Edward Bunting – his life, our musical inheritance and a rich legacy to be explored. Armagh-born Bunting, a young pianist and ...
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