The Long Grazing Acre - Glenties, Donegal , 23 August | Event in Letterkenny | AllEvents

The Long Grazing Acre - Glenties, Donegal

The Long Grazing Acre

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Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 11:00 am

Glenties Co. Donegal

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Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 11:00 am - Sun, 24 Aug, 2025 at 11:59 pm (IST)

Glenties Co. Donegal

The Highlands Hotel, Main Street, Donegal, County Donegal, F94 NT67, Éire, Letterkenny, Ireland

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The Long Grazing Acre - Glenties, Donegal
31.07.25

The Long Grazing Acre is a celebration of the enormous contribution Travellers make to Traditional Irish music. The tour will be led by world renowned uilleann piper and co-founder of the iconic Bothy Band, Paddy Keenan, along with musicians descended from other famous musical Traveller families. Following last year’s two-week musical journey in traditional barrel-top wagons, this year The Long Grazing Acre tours to three separate locations in Donegal, Clare and Louth, each focusing on a different musical Traveller family.

Paddy will be accompanied by guitarist and singer Marty Barry, great-grandnephew of the well-known Traveller singer Margaret Barry, fiddler Bianca Rohleder who hails from the famous and much-loved Doherty family of Traveller musicians from Donegal, and Keenan’s long-term musical partner Éamonn de Barra. On this leg of the tour they will be joined by Dermot Byrne and Tom & Felix Doran, great-grandnephews of pipers Johnny and Felix Doran, for a concert on 23 August in the Highland Hotel.

Glenties, Co. Donegal Sat 23rd to Sun 24th August

Saturday 23 August - Highlands Hotel

11am - Musical bus tour celebrating the Dohertys led by grand-daughter Bianca Rohleder & Ronan Galvin. Departs Highland Hotel 11am. Tickets €10

3pm - Tin fiddle exhibition

4pm - Pete Seeger & Denise Doyle film screening

8pm - Concert - Paddy Keenan with Marty Barry, Bianca Rohleder, Éamonn De Barra, Dermot Byrne and Tom & Felix Doran. Tickets €25/20


Sunday 24 August - The Glen Tavern

2pm - Tin smithing & wattle tent making exhibition with Mikey & Terry McInerary

4pm - Pass the tin fiddle with Peter Campbell

8pm - More tunes

Each location will focus on the legacy of a particular Traveller family. In Glenties, Donegal on 23 and 24 August, which is curated by Rab Cherry, the focus will be predominantly on the Doherty family.

The Long Grazing Acre is funded by an Arts Council Touring Award.


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Glenties Co. Donegal, The Highlands Hotel, Main Street, Donegal, County Donegal, F94 NT67, Éire, Letterkenny, Ireland
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The Long Grazing Acre - Glenties, Donegal , 23 August | Event in Letterkenny | AllEvents
The Long Grazing Acre - Glenties, Donegal
Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 11:00 am