25th - 29th January 2012
Family Programme 
In association with Dublin City Council
Visit The Ark Tradfest Family Hub, where fiddles, bodhráns, harps and tin whistles will get you reeling in a weekend of workshops and performances.
Gather the family for a special family concert, alive with furiously fast fiddles, feet and honky-tonk tunes. Children can dance a jig in a frying pan in a Sean Nós workshop, bring along their instruments to the open children’s trad session or drop in to the free children’s craft club in partnership with the Crafts Council of Ireland.
This year we will have a free open trad session with Ceoltóirí Chluain Tarbh, fiddling feet, drop-in children’s craft club, family concerts and fun workshops! More info: www.ark.ie
Scurlogstown Olympiad will be in force during the Saturday and Sunday of the TradFest where they will be involving & engaging visitors in their rural traditions and customs, in which young and old will learn how to sharpen a scythe, milk a cow, make a sugan rope, and dance a half-set. Irish and international visitors will help make a cock of hay, age a horse by looking at its teeth, sheer a sheep, guess the weight of a goat, cook colcannon, thresh the corn, foot turf and sing a sean-nós song. Irish and European city dwellers are all but one step away from their agricultural forefathers.
They will be transforming the grounds of Christ Church Cathedral, creating a rural village of reconstructed thatched houses, and the smell of bread making and butter churning and the taste of the boxty will be sure to keep away the January blues. The Animal Farm will also be great fun for all the family, children can meet Nelly the Donkey and Daisy the cow, alongside pigs and goats and lambs and sheep.
The High Nellies will be in action as a re-enactment of Ireland and Dublin fifty years ago when cyclists in period costume from Scurlogstown Olympiad will converge on Temple Bar,this is a sight not to be missed! Please note this event will be taking place on Wednesday 12pm.
These workshops give visitors to Temple bar and locals and opportunity to try something different in a lively and friendly atmosphere. They are suitable for all ages and would make a fun afternoon out for all the family! Workshops will comprise of one hour of sean-nós singing and one hour of sean-nós dancing. Participants will get an opportunity to learn a number of sean-nós songs and learn the basic steps in sean-nós dancing. Tickets are available from www.gaelchultur.com/01 4845220/ eolas@gaelchultur.com.
This year there will be three outdoor stages! The Siamsa Cois Life stage (meaning fun besides the Liffey), aims to create exactly that. Young people from all over Ireland will showcase their extraodinary talents on a purpose builtstage. Performances will include music and dance schools from all over Ireland as well as professional sean nós, choirs and Irish dancing. Furthermore, there will be an outdoor stage that hosts the Celtic Irish Dancers, Paddy Casey and Henry Girls amongst others! And it is all for free!
Below you can find some of the bands from the East Essex Street Main Stage where up-coming bands will be showcasing their talent!
The Logues: This is a 5 piece band made up of drums, bass, acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, tin whistle and vocals. The Logues have been bringing their folk-rock circus to audiences throughout the north and south of Ireland and parts of the UK since 2006, when they formed for what was supposed to be a one off gig.
Tupelo: Tupelo are an exciting, original, acoustic roots act consisting of an eclectic line-up of instruments which includes banjo, guitar, fiddle, saxophone and double bass. Their sound is fresh and unique in today's world of endless electric outfits.
Buskers are an age old tradition in Dublin, especially in Temple Bar. Stop and listen to some great music, both the classics and the new at our Busker Stage. Some buskers have gone on to win Oscars, so who knows what hidden talent you might hear that has yet to be discovered!
The Chancy Brothers Blend music, puppetry and slapstick comedy in a poignant tale of Irish Diaspora. They will perform twice per day. Larger than life street performers, stilt walkers and bespoke characters will bring Temple Bar to life throughout the festival.
As part of the exciting programme of events taking place at the 2012 festival IMRO will host a series of Traditional Music Showcases and Master Classes in the New Theatre, Temple Bar, over the course of the festival.
Places are limited so booking is essential. To reserve your seat please contact IMRO: Tel: 01 6614844 or email keith.johnson@imro.ie
The Irish Village market will offer fresh, local food and can be found at TradFest on the Saturday and Sunday! More information about the Irish Village Market: http://www.irishvillagemarkets.ie/
Our experienced researchers from a number of our county genealogy centres will be offering a free advisory service to visitors to the TradFest to assist them in locating records relating to their particular family in a specific county or across any number of counties. The IFHF and its centres are not for profit organizations providing an online and local service run by trained genealogists and researchers, as well as computerizing further records.
Get in touch with your Irish roots with genealogy experts, Irish Family History Foundation. The Irish Family History Foundation has an all Ireland network of county genealogy centres and is the largest provider of family history research services on the island of Ireland. Those wishing to trace their Irish ancestry can access its website, www.rootsireland.ie which provides access to over 19 million Irish records from the 1600s to the 1900s including births, baptisms, marriages & deaths; Griffith’s Valuation; Tithe Applotment Books; the 1901 & 1911 census records; gravestone inscriptions, and other sources.
Wednesday 25th-Saturday 28th
13:00-14:30
Price Adults €20, Children €15 INCLUDES LUNCH
To book tickets for this workshop, please call 00353 1 678272 or
email info@theirishhouseparty.com
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