{"id":28932,"date":"2024-02-24T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/lahinch-traditional-music-festival-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T03:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T03:02:29","slug":"lahinch-traditional-music-festival-2024","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/lahinch-traditional-music-festival-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Lahinch Traditional Music Festival 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">The inaugural Cultural and Heritage festival celebrates the life of Lahinch fiddler Susan O\u2019 Sullivan (1892-1981) and the contribution she made to Irish music in Co. Clare. She was a founding member of Clare Comhaltas and in 1960 was made President of the Clare Branch. She held weekly Sunday night sessions in her family home main street Lahinch, often in the company of Willie Clancy, Junior Crehan, Mrs. Crotty and other greats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">On Friday April 19th at 7.30pm, Dr. Labhr\u00e1s \u00d3 Murch\u00fa shall officially open the Festival which aptly takes place in Susan\u2019s family home Flanagan\u2019s bar. It will be followed by \u20182 Days in September\u2019 a drama piece by Dermott Petty that documents the local Rineen Ambush of 1920.\u00a0At 9pm the Session Trail begins with seven bars participating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">On Saturday, continuing with the Cultural theme, along with all day sessions we will have a C\u00e9il\u00ed in the local Moy Hall from 3-6pm with well-known C\u00e9il\u00ed Band \u2018Dal gCais\u2019.\u00a0 Two CD launches feature later that afternoon, \u2018Dave Sanders\u2019 with a fabulous mix of Trad music and song and an all-female group \u2018The Turf Shed\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Sunday is the final day and begins at 12.30pm with a singing session in the Coast Hotel under Bean an T\u00ed Mary Noonan, a singer of note herself.\u00a0A special event is planned in the afternoon down on the strand, as Susan\u2019s grand-nephew Fr. 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