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Donegal tunes up for Rory
Gallagher Festival
20.02.12
ORGANISERS of the Rory
Gallagher International Tribute Festival 2012 say
they are weeks away from “from announcing the best
line-up ever.” The four-day event which has been
hailed as Ireland’s greatest rock music event was
recently named the Best Irish Festival for
attendances between 10,000 and 30,000 at the Irish
Festival Awards.
Chairperson and founder of the Rory Gallagher
Festival, Barry O’Neill said: “The festival has
grown significantly over the past 10 years and in
that time we have had many great musicians play in
Ballyshannon from all Rory’s original band members
to the late Ronnie Drew, Bernie Marsden from
Whitesnake, Eric Bell from Thin Lizzy to Dutch
legend Julian Sas and last year we were honoured to
have Jan Akkerman and his.”
The 11th tribute festival takes place in
Ballyshannon, Co Donegal between Thursday, May 31
and Sunday, June 3. |
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Johnny Gallagher performing at the
Rory Gallagher statue in Ballyshannon. |
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Thousands of Rory’s
loyal fans and rock blues lovers will converge on
the Rory Gallagher's hometown for four days of open
air concerts, street gigs, nightly concerts, pub
gigs, workshops, exhibitions and much more. Among
the acts so far confirmed to appear are the Larry
Miller Band, the Pat McManus Band, Zero Resistance
and the Dave McHugh Band. |
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