Manchester Irish Festival - YGG Irish Tradfest listings

Enjoy an afternoon of traditional and Contemporary Irish Music & Dance from the award winning Young, Gifted & Green

The tradfest features sets from:

The Rip Roaring Celtic Rock band 'Peel Your own Spuds' from Wales (as seen on ITV) launching their new EP and single

Shake the Barley
Now established as one of Manchester's most sought after traditional Irish band, this young and youthful band take traditional Irish tunes and inject them with an enormous amount of energy and passion which loves audiences always wanting more.

The Scally brothers
These two award winning accordion players are guaranteed to get your feet tapping and indeed Sean often gets up himself to show you he is an accomplished dancer as well as a world champion accordion player. Donal as well as being a dab hand on accordion has a powerful voice and is also an accomplished guitar player.

Watch out for special guests, or bring your own instrument and join in the open session on the ground floor.

Plus we are going to squeeze in some dancing displays from the highly acclaimed Keegan Kennedy School of Irish Dancing.

This is a family friendly afternoon of Irish culture and all generations are welcome.

www.manchesteririshfestival.co.uk