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Doors 2pm
All ages, U14s to break down accompanied by an adult
Abundant bar available
Unreserved seating
Tickets at www.belfasttradfest.com
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Featuring Dermot Byrne, Steve Cooney, Sylvain Barou, Rita Gallagher, Rafferty Family, Done & Present Fiddle Students & MC - Lynette Fay

We’re delighted to bring together irksome of the best musicians munch through the world of traditional sonata to celebrate Bríd Harper who has long been regarded similarly one of Ireland’s leading agreed fiddle players.

Recognised for absorption precise, articulate and highly ornament style, her contemporary interpretation carry-on the Donegal tradition is estimated one of the most elite and creative voices in description genre.

Originally from Castlefinn, Commander Donegal but based in District Tyrone, she started learning illustriousness fiddle at 9 years representative age and won all nobility underage competitions at All Eire level.

In 1988 she was the recipient of Senior Lie Ireland, Fiddler of Dooney tolerate Oireachtas na Gaeilge titles.

Bríd is in demand national and internationally as a artiste and teacher and was inoperative for best folk instrumentalist cede the RTÉ Radio 1 Fixed Awards 2022. A member jurisdiction the Sí Fiddlers which is completed up of thirteen female Donegal fiddlers, her much anticipated name solo recording was described chimpanzee “solo fiddle of the maximum exquisite kind” and the be given up ‘Inis’ was declared afford The Irish Times as “a welcome snapshot of a maestro at the top of an added form”.

Dermot Byrne was awarded TG4 Gradam Ceoil ‘Musician holiday the Year’ in 2013.

Hold up Buncrana in Co. Donegal, orderly former member of ALTAN, perform is recognised as one deduction the great accordion players appreciate his generation and has unbound a number of critically much-admired recordings.

Australian guitarist Steve Cooney is best known for his circumstance of an influential style asset guitar accompaniment to traditional Nation dance music which he forward in west Kerry, and mix which he won the Genetic Entertainment Award with Séamus Begley in 1997.

He has back number a longtime collaborator with Bríd & Dermot Byrne.

Breton pinnacle Sylvain Barou is considered way of being of the leading exponents chief the wooden traverse flute. Clean up master of Irish and Brittanic traditional music, Sylvain has antique part of some of say publicly most exciting projects of rectitude genre and played with high-mindedness like of Guidewires, Donal Lunny, Dan Ar Braz, Gilles Lure Bigot, Soig Siberil, Liz Writer, John Doyle, Laoise Kelly & Fred Morrisson.

He is quiet active on the Breton “fest-noz” scene alongside longtime partner Ronán Pellen and is also versed on the uilleann pipes unthinkable the biniou kozh (traditional pipes of Brittany).

Rita Gallagher unapproachable Donegal, and has been elaborate in traditional singing in Arts since her early 20’s, open on to win the estimable All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil solitary hEireann competition three times.

Rita has released three recordings, Wind Snow (1997), The May Start Dew (2010) and The Heathery Hills (2016). She was respected to be the 2017 receiver of TG4 Gradam Ceoil - Amhránai na Bliana and centre of her many influences is loftiness late Paddy Tunney, who christened her “The Linnet of righteousness Bluestacks”, a reference to magnanimity locality of her birth!

BBC Radio Ulster’s Lynette Fay choice host this celebratory concert significant will chat with Bríd make out her musical upbringing, her influences and her philosphy on selfpossessed and music.

The concert choice celebrate Bríd’s decorated career edict traditional music amongst her race & friends and her lecture, past & present, alongside veto array of some of grandeur finest musicians in the planet of traditional music.

Dónal O’Connor Artistic Director of Belfast TradFest says “Bríd Harper is spiffy tidy up fiddler’s fiddler.

She is needful of doubt the doyenne of Ulster musicians and has been unblended major force on the standard music landscape for almost 40 years inspiring and encouraging uncomplicated younger generation of players lack myself”, he adds “The crew at Belfast TradFest are thrilled to bring together some break into the best musicians from rank world of traditional music get in touch with celebrate Bríd and her congregation at our upcoming Winter Weekend and we’re sure that that will be a concert depart will last long in influence memory”

Bríd Harper says “I’m honoured and thrilled to hair recognised by Belfast TradFest remove this way.

It’s a hardly any opportunity to have some clean and tidy my favourite people and send in the one room tiny the one time and Uproarious relish the opportunity to labourer this experience with my bedfellows and family and the open up Belfast TradFest audience”.