Ballyshannon Folk and Traditional Music Festival is twinned with the Slainte Irish Festival in France and this year they celebrate their 30th anniversary of the Irish Weeks in Artois-Gohelle,

The line up includes:

PADDY CASEY, NO CROWS, FOUR MEN & a DOG, MAIRTIN O’CONNOR BAND, The RAPPAREES, BACKWEST, The CLIFDEN RAMBLERS, FRANKIE GAVIN & DE DANNAN, and Dervish.

More information online program at www.slainte.fr

Dates:

➢ Saturday 05.03. – GRENAY, Ronny Coutteure Cultural Space (20:30): PADDY CASEY

➢ Friday 11.03. – GRENAY, Ronny Coutteure Cultural Space (20:30): NO CROWS

➢ Wednesday 16.03. – MAZINGARBE, Party Hall (20:30): The RAPPAREES and FOUR MEN & A DOG

➢ Thursday 17.03. – GRENAY, Ronny Coutteure Cultural Space (20:30): The RAPPAREES and FOUR MEN & A DOG

➢ Friday 18.03. – HARNES, Prevert Hall (20:30): MAIRTIN O’CONNOR BAND et The RAPPAREES

Saturday 19.03. – MARQUILLIES, Community Hall (20:30): MAIRTIN O’CONNOR BAND

Saturday 19.03. – LOOS-in-GOHELLE – Omer Caron Hall (20:30): The RAPPAREES

Wednesday 23.03. – GRENAY, Cultural Space Ronny Coutteure (19h00): Film “The RENEGADE” (Black 47) with an exhibition/debate on the Great Famine in Ireland, its impact on the Irish population, its language, culture, and its consequences in general on history The shore of the country.

➢ Thursday 24.03. – AIX-NOULETTE, Staminet “La Grange” (20h00): The CLIFDEN RAMBLERS Pub Session

➢ Friday 25.03. – BILLY-MONTIGNY, Leon Delfosse Space (20:30):

BACKWEST and DERVISH

(And at DIVION: 03/25. The CLIFDEN RAMBLERS room to be confirmed by Yassa asso)

➢ Saturday 26.03. – AIX-NOULETTE, Party Hall (20:30): BACKWEST

➢ Saturday 26.03. LENS, The Collision (20:00): FRANKIE GAVIN & DE DANNAN and DERVISH