26th to 31st October 2011 Sligo Live Sessions Music Festival
Sligo Live Sessions is a national festival celebrating traditional, roots and acoustic music. Sligo Live Sessions has carved out a niche as one of the most relaxed, intimate and enjoyable music festivals in Ireland. Sligo Live Sessions is a modern continuation of a long and distinguished musical heritage going back hundreds and maybe thousands of years. It has been shown that the first inhabitants came to Sligo over five thousand years ago and who would bet that the incredable beauty of Sligo did not inspire them to sing, dance and play music! As another famous Sligoman, W.B.Yeats said in his poem ”The Fiddler of Dooney’ “The merry love to fiddle and the merry love to dance".
County Sligo has a strong musical heritage stretching back to the fiddle masters. In their wake there are a wealth of young and established musicians currently performing around Sligo.The distinctive Sligo music style is renowned worldwide for its ‘lift’ – a traditional term to describe the uplifting spirit it conveys. The musical program presented in Sligo Live will reflect the verve, authenticity and quality of Sligo’s music. County Sligo holds a special place in traditional Irish music.