The Gathering Festival
Gathering Programme 2025
Feb Wed 5th – Sun 9th 2025
Weekend passes available for €65 per person
(The Weekend pass includes access to all of the Ceilis, Concerts, Festival Club and Set Dance Workshops – the bus to Scartaglen and Instrument Workshops are not included)
Wed Feb 5th: Ceili in Scartaglen Heritage Centre 9 pm with Ui Bhriain / Tickets €12
Music Session in Tom Flemings Bar – Free
Thurs Feb 6th: A.m. Schools Outreach music programme. The Gathering team visit local primary schools with musicians, singers and dancers along with the pupils promoting Sliabh Luachra music. This event is made possible by the sponsorship of Killarney Credit Union.
Thursday Feb 6th: Niamh Ni Charra & Keven Corbett
INEC CLUB. With Aidan Connolly & John Daly
Doors 8.00 pm Concert 9.00 pm
Tickets €20 on the door
Ballroom: Ceili with Star of Munster Ceili Band
Doors open 8.30 pm Ceili 9 pm
Tickets €12 on the door
Friday Feb 7th: A.m. Schools Outreach Music Programme
Ballroom: 4.30 pm Welcome Ceili with Neily O Connor – Tickets €12 on the door
Green Room: Sliabh Luachra Music Trail Learner Session with Aidan Connolly
Gleneagle Lobby: 7 pm Music Session with Diarmuid O Donovan, Sean Butler and Liam Kerrish
INEC CLUB: DANU in concert with support by Peadar O Riada & Gearoid Ó Duinnín
Doors 7 pm / Concert 7.30 pm
Tickets From €28 plus fees
Festival Club: TALISK & THE RISING
10.30 pm
Tickets from €23
Green Room: 11 pm Traditional Irish Music Session with Orlaith & Brogan McAuliffe, Stephen McKee and Tim O Shea – Free Entry
SATURDAY FEB 8TH
Ballroom: Doors 10.30am /Set Dance Workshop with Pat Murphy 11am – 3pm
Day Ticket €12 / half day ticket €6 (Weekend Wristbands Free Entry)
Instrument Workshops 10 am – 3 pm
Tickets €12
Pre booking advised for beginners or register from the box office on the day
MOD Suite 5: Fiddle Workshop with Tara Breen (not for beginners)
MOD Suite 4: Fiddle Workshop with Aidan Connolly (not for beginners)
MOD Suite 3: Accordion Workshop with Ann Conroy Burke (not for beginners)
Mod Suite 2: Singing Workshop with Roisin Ryan in Irish & English
Green Room: SET DANCE WORKSHOP (Cork and Kerry Sets)
With John ‘’ The Leaper’’ Lynch
10.30 am – 12.30 & 2 pm – 4 pm
Tickets Full Day €12 / half day €6 – Tickets available from the INEC Box Office on the day
Backstage Bar: Afternoon Trad Session 12.15 – 2.15 pm – Free
with Connie & Frances O Connell, Eileen De Paor & Francis O Connor
INEC CLUB: Doors 1.30 pm Show 2 pm
Afternoon Concert with Jackie Daly & Eileen O Brien / Con Moynihan & Mike Kelliher
Tickets €15 on the door
TV Lounge: 3.30 pm Lecture: Sliabh Luachra Music Past and Present with Nicky McAuliffe – Free Entry
Mod Suite 2: CD Launch with Singer Evelyn O Connell ‘’The Old Wood Road’’ with MC Tim Dennehy & Conor O Sullivan and Deirdre Granville
6.30 pm FREE
MOD Suite 1: Traditional Singers Concert (Irish & English) with Roisin Ryan, Tim Dennehy, Andrew Basquille, Evelyn O Connell, Jim Walsh, Ella Marie O Dwyer, Pat Sullivan, Chirsty Cronin, Tom McKenna, Kathleen & Marian McKenna & Richie Fitzgerald & Gerry Kelliher
SATURDAY FEB 8TH
Backstage Bar 8.30pm Trad Session with Tim Hickey, Tadhg Buckley and Henry Cronin
Free Entry
INEC CLUB Concert with DERVISH,
with support by Breen, Rynne & Murray
(Tara Breen, Padraig Rynne & Jim Murray)
Doors 7.30pm Tickets from €28.00
Festival Club PROJECT SMOK & 3 ON THE BUND
10.30pm, Tickets from €23
Ballroom Ceili with The Abbey Ceili Band
Doors 8.30pm Ceili 9pm
Tickets €12 on the door (Wristbands Free Entry)
Green Room: Late night Trad Session with Orlaith & Brogan McAuliffe and Stephen & Tim McKee
