GALWAY FESTIVALS
May
Galway Early Music Festival
Galway Early Music Festival features concerts by top international performers, workshops, schools events and music and theatre featuring historical instruments and costume in the Galway City Museum and in the street bringing Galway back to it’s roots with medieval, renaissance and baroque magic !
July
Galway Film Fleadh
With past guests ranging from Peter O’Toole and Jessica Lange to Oliver Reed, Neil Jordan and Sir Richard Attenborough, the Galway Film Fleadh, is a celebration of filmmaking from around the world. Attracting directors, actors, cinematographers and artists of all generations and cultural backgrounds the Fleadh celebrates it’s 21st Birthday this year.
Galway Arts Festival
The Galway Arts Festival is an annual celebration of art in every form and brings the streets of Galway alive every July. With all types of performance from juggling chainsaws to tight rope walking and face painting to fire juggling, Galway becomes a circus of faux freak for 2 weeks. A must see, especially for young families.
Galway Races
Perhaps the most well known of all the Galway Festivals, the Galway Races is still galloping on successfully. This horse racing festival is renowned across the world and is as much a fair as a race.
August
Galway Races
See above
Crinniu na mBad Festival
Up to 100 unique Irish boats, the Galway Hookers, gather every August for a weekend of racing and celebration at Cruinniú na mBád (Gathering of the Boats) festival in Kinvara. Since its revival in 1979, the festival has become one of the most unique and successful weekend festivals in Ireland.
September
Clarenbridge Oyster Festival
No where else on earth can match the perfect conditions that exist in Clarenbridge for growing and harvesting Oysters, which is why the Clarenbridge Oyster festival has been so popular since it’s beginnings in 1954. The festival is full of food, music, dancing and family fun.
Galway Oyster Festival
This festival to celebrate the beginning of the Oyster season was created in 1953 by local hotelier Brian Collins as a way of extending the Galway festival season into September, filling his hotel and bringing business to the region. 56 years later, the festival is still going strong.
October
Great Irish Beer Festival
A festival of beer appreciation, for lovers of barley.
www.greatirishbeerfestival.com
November
Galway Jazz Festival
The aim of this festival is to foster Jazz as a contemporary art form in the west of Ireland. This festival features a range of Jazz music in a broad range of venues across the city.
Spirit of Voice Festival
This festival is a celebration of of song and spoken word.
