Féile Cheoil Larry Reynolds - 7th to 10th September 2023 - Ballinasloe

A weekend of Traditional Irish Music, Culture & Heritage

Feile Cheoil Larry Reynolds have a fantastic new website where you will find all you need to know about this lively music and cultural festival taking place from 7th to 10th September in Ballinasloe.

​Feile Cheoil Larry Reynolds started out in 2014 in the form of a celebratory concert to honour the musical life of Larry Reynolds, and to promote the East Galway style of music and playing in the region. It has now progressed and grown successfully into a four-day Féile of which we are now in our 10th year.

For a full interactive guide to what's on and where visit the website below:

Feile Cheoil Larry Reynolds Website

They have spread their wings over the years and incorporated a larger programme with something for everyone, including an opening concert, music sessions, music, singing & dance workshops historical walk, art competition, fiddle competition, photo competition, ceili, singers circle, and traditional crafters. The organisers are delighted to have as part of our Féile every year, both local and visiting artists, of the highest calibre.

Shopfront competiition sponsored by BACD and ShopBallinasloe

Féile Larry Cheil promotes the East Galway style of music, hosting a series of lectures, with photo exhibitions and archived footage about local musical greats who were synonymous in this style of playing and have left a huge legacy behind them. Musicians and bands such as Paddy Fahy, Eddie Kelly, the Aughrim slopes Ceili Band, the Ballinakill music players and Ballinakill Céili Band, Tom Quinn & Paddy Carty, Mairtin Burns, Joe Burke, and Raymond Roland.
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They are delighted to welcome old and new faces to our Féile every year and over the past number of years visitors have travelled from America, UK, Italy, Germany, as far north as Belfast, south as Kerry, west to Achill, inside the pale and everywhere in between to join the festivities.