Dúchas Chill Dara Kildare International Folk Arts Festival 27th – 30th August 1998 |
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Important AnnouncementKildare combines Celtic Festival and Gaelic Games This year the festival will be part of the build-up to the Kildare v Kerry All Ireland Football Semi-Final, which will be held in Croke Park, with Sunday's programme starting and finishing earlier than originally planned so that everyone involved can watch the match. This year’s festival will have a Celtic theme, with music, song and dance groups from the Celtic nations taking part. Visitors from Brittany, Cornwall, Isle of Man, Scotland and Wales will join Irish Folkdance and music groups, pipe bands and solo performers for what promises to be an exciting cultural weekend.
There is a long tradition of music, song and dance in Kildare and the purpose of the festival is to celebrate this tradition, to make people more aware of its existence and to play a part in preserving the tradition and passing it on to future generations. The festival is centred in Kildare Town but groups will also perform at other locations throughout the county. Kildare Festivals | Kildare Arts | Kildare Community Network Participants will include:Pennduiged Ar Releg - BrittanyDawnswyr Delyn - WalesBock Yuan Fannee - Isle of ManTan ha Dowr - CornwallPeoples Orchestra - ScotlandLanders Folkdance GroupLord Edward's Own Narraghmore Pipe BandGeraldine Folkdance GroupKildare Performing ArtsGroupCarmel Somers Folkdance Group.Programme:Thursday 27th August Musicians from the international groups
will perform in St. Conleth's Day Care Centre,
Kildare at 10am.
Friday 28th August On Friday 28th August at 10.00 a.m. the international groups will perform in the St. Conleth's Day Care Centre, Kildare. In the afternoon they will take part in a concert. 8.00 p.m. international and Irish groups will take part in a concert in the Carmelite Church, White Abbey, Kildare Saturday 29th August On Saturday 29th August there will be a Celtic Extravaganza of music, song and dance commencing at 2.00 p.m. followed by further performances from international participants on Saturday night. The international and Irish groups will perform at the Curragh Races between 2 p.m.and 5 p.m. followed by a concert featuring international and Irish participants at 8 p.m. in Berney's, Kilcullen. Sunday 30th August The events of Sunday 30 August will start with mass, including performances by the visiting groups at noon in the Carmelite Church, White Abbey, Kildare. This will be followed by a parade to Market Square and the final performances by international and Irish participants from 1 p.m. to 3.30p.m. finishing in time for all to watch to Kildare v Kerry All Ireland Football Semi-Final. Dúchas Chill Dara is organised by Kildare Town Twinning Association in conjunction with The Institute for International Cultural Exchange. For further information phone 045-521190, Fax 045-521198. E-mail: mdassociates@tinet.ie The following are some of the International groups: Tan Ha Dowr from Cornwall
They have also performed at many other major events in and around Cornwall and won the music shield at the Cornish Dance Competitions in March this year. Their music is traditionally Cornish but is arranged in a more modern way. They will be bringing traditional costumes to Kildare including one of the Cornish Bal maidens who worked on top of the mines. One of the dances they do called the "Tin Stamp" particularly relates to these women. The dancers wear scoots on the toes and heels of their shoes on the footwear traditionally worn, which would have been heavy shoes or clogs. This is the first time Tan Ha Dowr have been to Ireland. Dawnswyr Delyn Dawnswyr Delyn’s purpose is to share their enjoyment of Welsh traditional dances and music, to spread the knowledge about them locally, nationally and internationally and to share their enthusiasm with anyone who wishes to watch, listen or join in! Welsh folk dance has a broad tradition to call on – from fair dances to those of the gentry, from the intricate pattern to the virtuoso stepping, from the intimate to the gregarious – a complexity which is perhaps an expression of their culture. Dawnswyr Delyn are no strangers to the large arena, the grand stage, the camera, the park, the barn or the street. Their guiding principle is to give of their best, wherever they perform. Since their formation in 1987 they have represented their town, district and county at various national and international festivals and competitions including visits to Galway, Amsterdam, Perranporth in Cornwall, Isle of Man, Nantes, various National Eisteddfodau and the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. The Eisteddfod is in their blood and amongst their number they have trainers of youth and adult groups and also national adjudicators and winners, all ready to respond to the call. The dancers wear traditional Welsh costumes, the women wearing a full skirt with underskirt and a garment called a ‘betgwn’ which is half dress / half jacket. The ‘betgwn’ and skirt are made of pure Welsh wool, also woven in Wales. The women also wear a cotton bonnet and have cotton sleeves. The men wear cotton collar-less shirts, woollen waistcoat and knee-length trousers with knee-high woollen socks and a cotton neckerchief. The costume is based on original costumes held at the Welsh National Museum. Their dances cover the span from 17th century to present day and include court dances, fair dances and patterned dances from all regions of Wales. They also perform clog dances, the clogs being made of leather uppers with laces on a wooden base. Bock Yuan Fannee Bock Yuan Fannee is a dance group which has represented the Isle of Man for many years at both Inter-Celtic and other Folk Festivals. Members have travelled to all the Celtic countries and to several others. The group started as an all male dance team, reviving the stick dance "Mylecharaine’s March" under the guidance of Mona Douglas (1898-1987) and later became a mixed group. Mona, who research work for many years into aspects of Manx culture, including music and dance, is widely recognised, was associated with Bock Yuan Fannee from the group’s founding in 1975 until her death twelve years later. Traditional Manx dances are performed along with newer dances using traditional steps and patterns. Some members of Bock Yuan Fannee also wished to sing songs in Manx Gaelic and formed the vocal group Cliogaree Twoaie in 1984. A few members of the original group are still in both today and new members of one or other group have often become involved with Manx music, language, song and dance. Bock Yuan Fannee are based in Ramsee. |
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Tan Ha Dowr are a new young
Cornish music and dance group, made up of youngsters
ranging from 7 to 17 years of age, with a little help
from one or two older members. Although only formed in
November last year, Tan Ha Dowr have already performed at
Sidmouth Festival, the Cornish Water Sports Festival and
have had an invitation to go to a Cornish festival in
America.