Meteor award-winning Mick Flannery is set to headline this year's Spirit of Folk Festival (Sept 18th-20th) in Dunderry Park, Co Meath. Seen by many as the closing festival of the summer, the mid-September event is a great family-friendly, camping festival with music at its heart and the environment, the universe and druidism at its soul. Flannery will be sharing the stage with rock-trad powerhouse Moxie and Inni-K while the roof-raising Bunoscionn will return again, closing out a European tour with their GAA Disco.
Other Irish acts include; Rhob Cunningham, Elm, Dr Millar, Mongoose, Cuig, Carriages, Corner Boy, Rob Corcoran, The Blood Red Mountain Band, The Midnight Union Band, Elephant, Petonc, Basciville, Majestic Bears, Na Tonnta, Sun.Set.Ships, The Marriannes, Anna Mieke, The Ocelots, Carron & Kate O’Callaghan with more to be announced late August.
Spirit of Folk is held in the parkland surrounding Dunderry House, a sprawling estate that includes lakes, forests and woodlands and layers great music with theatre, storytelling, African dance, drumming and shamanism. Astronomy and bushcraft take centre stage while Viking battle re-enactments and yoga faceoff in the grounds.
As part of a new arts strand at the festival, The Irish Times will bring its popular Book Club on the road with award-winning writer Nuala Ni Chonchuir who has just published her latest novel Miss Emily in North America using her English-language name Nuala O’Connor. (Miss Emily will be released in Ireland in August.) Ní Chonchúir, one of the most popular Irish Times book club authors, will discuss her writing in a public interview and discussion at the festival.
Weekend camping tickets cost €70 and day tickets cost €50.
The 2015 festival will have its official launch in Whelan’s of Wexford Street in Dublin on August 22nd
For more on the festival and to stay up to date with the line-up see spiritoffolk.com or visit their Facebook page
