( events are subject to change )
Friday 20th
: Music and fun in our
maritime themed bars, hotels and restaurants
7.30pm Terrier Racing - Lower Car Park
Saturday 21
:
2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Scots & Irish Airs Pipe
Bands
The Carrigaline and
Ballingearry pipe bands (Various
street locations)
Sea Shanty Singers : Around the Town
8.00 pm Live and Free:
Rock & Blues band Tin Pan Alley kick off our free gig series.
10.00 pm Twilight... A
journey from light into darkness with music, song and stunning street
performers.
Sunday 22
2.00pm. Children’s Fancy Dress Parade / Face
painters
A host of tricksters
and clowns lead the parade through the streets.
(Lots of prizes -
Assembly Barrack Street).
2.00 – 6.00 pm. Face
painters, Jugglers, Clowns, Club displays, Fun and mayhem for all the family.
Live and Free:
4.00pm. Twelve Bells
(sea shanties)
8.00pm. The Roaring
40's swing and jazz band
10.00pm The Cujo
Family (Waltzing Ballads to Brilliant Rock)
Friday 27 :
9.00am – 5.00pm :
Visit the busy Street Market and artisan food stalls. Check out the art
exhibition. Enjoy a coffee and tasty lunch at the many local restaurants.
Live and Free
8.00pm. Ceilí Allstars
(provisional)
10.00pm. Ruby &
the Nighthawks
Saturday 28
Pirate's Day
12.00 Pirates
Flotilla )TBC)
Cut-throat raiders
sail on the tide to ransack Bantry's treasure.
1.00 – 6.00pm The
Great Pirate Party... for kids from 2 to 92, join the motley crew.
Live and Free:
3.30pm Latin Express
(Salsa party rhythms of South America)
6.00 pm. Presentation
of prizes competition winners –art photo etc ?????? enge.
8.00 pm. CoCoMoJo -
Play that funky music white boy
10.00 pm. The
Calvinists (Alt. Folk- Americana)
Sunday 29th
Sea Shenanigans:
Sea Sheananigans:
Traditional Boat
Festival: An array of boats from our Maritime history converge on Bantry bay
Windsurfing: Around
Whiddy Windsurfing Challenge. Surfers from all over Ireland come to take on
this difficult challenge of Skill & Stamina
Currach Racing: Traditional
Irish boats put on a display of sport from our maritime heritage
Marconi Cup Junior
Sailing Race
Lifeboat Open Day :
See our local Volunteer Inshore Rescue in action
Irish Wind Surfing
Event –round Whiddy Race
Raft race - Air and Sea Rescue - Naval
boarding exercise - Thrax Tug Water Cannon - - Traditional Naomhógs &
wooden boats.
11.00 – 5.00pm Bantry
Bay Festival of Food
A celebration of all
that the Bantry Bay area has to offer in terms of culinary delights.
Location: Harbour View
car park
Rock The Boat Baby -
Music of every genre on the streets and in the bars.
2.00pm Shavers Only
(Contemporary Irish / Folk)
4.00pm The Hard Ground
(Rocky Folk with a hint of Blues)
8.00pm The Lee Valley
String Band (Old time country & blue grass)
10.00pm Colourfield
(All the Rock Classics)
11.30pm Light up the
sky... a not to be missed fireworks spectacular.
Safe Sailing Home
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