Delighted to announce North of Here, a new album with Mary Dillon & Neil Martin Recorded live to analogue tape in the Mourne Mountains. Out 27 Nov, with CDs available at our sold-out @LyricBelfast on 25 October. Pre-order now on vinyl, CD or digital 👉 donaloconnormusic.bandcamp.c…

🔥 THE DEVIL’S IN THE DANCE HALL IS COMING TO BELFAST! 😈 @BelfastTradF & @BelfastFestival are bringing Edwina Guckian’s spectacular show north for the first time. 📍 Ulster Hall 📅 22 Oct 🎟 Presale: 17 Sep 12pm 🎟 General sale: 18 Sept 10am Get your dancing shoes ready. 💃🕺

🔥 THE DEVIL’S IN THE DANCE HALL IS COMING TO BELFAST! 😈 @BelfastTradFest & @BelfastIntArts are bringing Edwina Guckian’s spectacular show north for the first time. 📍 Ulster Hall 📅 22 Oct 🎟 Presale: 17 Sept, 12pm 🎟 General sale: 18 Sept, 9am Get your dancing shoes ready. 💃🕺 Funded in partnership with the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through the Government of Ireland’s Shared Island Fund. #BelfastTradFest #TheDevilsInTheDanceHall

Congratulations to Henry Spencer. Henry has been a student at Belfast TradFest Summer School of Traditional Music for a number of years. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/area/…

Suaimhneas síoraí ar Eithne Vallely. Eithne was a huge inspiration. Her quiet leadership, kindness and, with Brian, the extraordinary legacy of @Armagh_Pipers inspired so much. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam dílis. shorturl.at/bxqGd

Great to see RTÉ Nationwide feature Belfast TradFest and Artistic Director @doconnormusic, chatting with @BlathnaidRua in its programme celebrating @Comhaltas Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Belfast 🎻 Fantastic contributions too from @nmcello and @ShonaMMcCarthy. A welcome recognition of the cross-cultural work Belfast TradFest has been doing since 2016, building audiences, participation and a thriving traditional music community in the city, and helping to lay the foundations that ultimately paved the way for the Fleadh coming to Belfast. 👏 📺 Watch back on the RTÉ Player rte.ie/player/series/nationw…

‘Reviewing his experience of the week, he said it was like he was "in a dream walking through the town" and the mood all week was one of joy and "bonhomie".’ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj03…

For those involved in Belfast's Irish traditional music scene through the 1970s, '80s and '90s, the idea of the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann one day coming to the city was one too ridiculous to even contemplate. bbc.in/4gffoEO

‘Donal O'Conor was presented with a prestigious Comhaltas Ceannródaithe Bardic Award in Belfast City's Hall last week’ independent.ie/county/louth/…

Among the most read stories! Love sharing the biz.

‘Belfast TradFest…..it’s easily the best organised traditional music festival out there. Excellent classes, sessions and concerts.’ @ArtsCouncilNI @ourbelfastmusic adactio.com/journal/tags

THE cultural and political significance of this week’s Fleadh is being talked about on a par with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, according to Belfast Tradfest co-founder Donal O’Connor. Just heard the same thing on #bbctalkback

'We can expand on the legacy of Fleadh by having our own, indigenous world-class, traditional arts festival' belfastmedia.com/we-can-expa…

Three years in a row? Would doubt it but @BelfastTradF are doing sterling work in the same field - would be fab to see a similar set up in the city centre during it?

My interview with Belfast TradFest artistic director Donal O’Connor “We consider Belfast is now a global centre for traditional arts, and that we have a soundscape here that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world between the fiddle, the flute, the fife, and the drum." belfastmedia.com/we-can-expa…

A huge congratulations to @belfastcc Ards CCÉ @Comhaltas and all involved for a hugely successful @fleadhcheoil Belfast will never look back. Let’s build on this positive success and focus on a proper legacy for the city. 🎻🪉🥁🎶

A pleasure to chat to @Ali_Fleming1 about @fleadhcheoil and @BelfastTradF for ITV News. #fleadh #fleadhbelfast #belfasttradfest itv.com/watch/news/utv-at-th…

GALLERY: Thousands of students take over St Anne's Square for Tradfest session belfastmedia.com/gallery-tho…

A packed house in the Lyric Theatre on Tuesday night at Belfast TradFest “for an amazing array of fiddlers who posthumously honour the internationally acclaimed Belfast fiddle player, Seán McGuire. Big appreciation for the cross-community Northern Counties Fiddle Group of young people from Ballymena led by renowned teacher Johnny Murphy.” 🎻 🎥 Shauna Fannin • @fannin_shauna

This was a lot of fun. 🪉🎻🥁