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Fading Light Festival
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Fading Light is a festival weekender incorporating music, art, poetry, talks, walks, surf, yoga, food & (most importantly) creamypintsbythesea.
Situated in and around the beautiful surrounds of Caherdaniel, Co. Kerry, Fading Light wraps the last Bank Holiday of the year in it's autumnal shroud and invites you to celebrate all that is good in life with friends old and new.
The Light is Fading.
Time to party!
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Fading Light Film
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Fading Light from Battle on Vimeo.
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VENUES AND SCHEDULES FOR MUSIC / SPOKEN WORD
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As atmospheric as they come, Freddies Bar is nothing less than an institution in Caherdaniel and Fading Light is going to cosy up amongst the low ceilings and the warm fire to bring you a fantastic welcome session and two early evening events that will warm the heart and soul after a day spent in the Kerry air.
FRI OCT 26th:
'WELCOME TO THE LIGHT SESSION'
There's no mic, but it's all open - a good old fashioned grab your instruments and drinking hands session to start the weekend off in style. All singing, all dancing, all welcome.
9.30 - LATE. FREE IN.
SAT OCT 27TH:
'Mike Gallagher SPOKEN WORDAPALOOZA'
A cosy hour of fireside poetry from kerry poet Mike Gallagher and friends.
5.30pm- 6.30pm. FREE IN.
SUN 28TH:
FIA RUA
Special intimate show from Galway native and spectacular singer songwriter.
5.30pm-6.30pm FREE IN.
'The Piper' as it's well know is playing host to the main thrust of the musical offerings at Fading Light with two marquee gigs in it's beautiful intimate upstairs room on Saturday (27th) and Sunday (28th) nights.
SAT OCT 27TH:
COME ON LIVE LONG / LITTLE XS FOR EYES / CARRIED BY WAVES.
BAMBOOZLED DJs
9pm (sharp) - LATE
SUN OCT 28TH:
JUSTIN GROUNDS / PEARSE MC LOUGHLIN / THE GANDHIS.
BAMBOOZLED DJ'S
9pm (sharp) - LATE.
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THE OUTDOORS
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ARTISTS INFO
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'Dublin-based group blessed with dashing harmonies and wistful, wry, infectious tunes' Irish Times
The sound of CARRIED BY WAVES has been described by critics as "euphoric,lush,astral,dreamy,textured,layered electronic pop music". Combining guitars, synths and vocals, fused with complex drum rhythms, and hynotic catchy bass loops Carried By Waves gives us an aural treat to look forward to!
"Close your eyes and Carried By Waves takes you into a dream, one that is over far too quickly." We Are Noise
Dimitra Xidous
Dimitra is a Greek-Canadian writer and poet whose work has appeared in Bare Hands Poetry, bywords.ca, Bywords Quarterly Journal, and Room. Her poetry can also be found in the 2001 Anthology “Words and Wonders: A Guelph-area Antthology”. In 2011, she was long-listed for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. She has work forthcoming in The Poetry Bus.
Her work has been described as cosmopolitan and sensual. Originally from Ottawa, Canada, she is currently living in Dublin, Ireland. She blogs at Dublin y Duende (http://dublinyduende.wordpress.com/), and her work is currently being featured as part of a public art display at Nick’s Coffee Company in Ranelagh (Dublin).
Kerrie O'Brien
Kerrie O' Brien has been published in various Irish and UK literary journals. In February 2012 she was the first poet to read as part of the New Writers Series in Shakespeare & Co. Paris. Her poem Blossoms was chosen as the winning entry in the Emerging Talent category of the 2011 iYeats Poetry Competition. She was the winner of the RTE Arena Flash Fiction Competition 2012 and Culture Ireland sponsored her to read in Los Angeles in June. She received an Arts Council Literature Bursary this year and two of her poems have been shortlisted for the 2013 Hennessy Award.
She was also highly commended for the Over the Edge New Writer of The Year Competition 2011 and featured poet in The First Cut. Her new poetry chapbook Out of the Blueness is now available for purchase.
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EATING AND DRINKING
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ACCOMMODATION
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TRAVEL
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Location
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Fading Light is a weekend celebration of Music, Art & the Outdoors taking place over the October Bank Holiday (26th-29th) in Caherdaniel, Co. Kerry.