About Larne Music Festival
The official page of The Larne Music Festival - 'The Friendly Festival'
Larne Music Festival Description
Larne Music Festival Association was founded in 1925 by a group of musicians whose enthusiasm left a strong foundation on which we can build today. After falling by the way-side in the 1950s, the festival was revived in 1999 and has grown every year since then. We hope that, as a committee, we can call on the support of all music lovers, and we would urge all teachers of music, Schools, Choirs, soloists and musicians to enter the Festival and ensured that it will continue to be a success for many years to come.
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There's still time to become a Friend of Larne Music Festival and get an invitation to our Pre-Festival Reception. (and support your local festival!)
Help support Larne Music Festival by becoming a Friend of the Festival.
Larne Music Festival depends solely on funding from entry fees, door receipts and donations and receives no grants from the council or anywhere else. Unfortunately this income only covers about half the cost of running the festival.
... Several years ago the Friends of the Festival Scheme was launched and these donations help us run the festival each year. All we ask for is a donation of £10 (or more!) per person. In return for becoming a Friend of the Festival you get your name listed in our programme and an invitation to our Pre-Festival Reception in the Town Hall. For more information and to join the scheme please see our website. Thank you.
http://www.larnemusicfestival.com/friends
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Just 10 years ago Larne Music Festival was a one-day festival run by a small committee of volunteers. Due to its fantastic success, we've now expanded to a four-day festival but we still have a small committee. We need more people to join us and help with the running of the festival. You only need to be able to help out at a session or two during the festival days and come to a couple of (short!) meetings during the year. If you would like to join us please PM us to ensure the festival can continue to thrive. Thanks 🎵🎶🎙️🎹🎺🎻🎤🎸
In case you missed this last week (it got a bit lost by Facebook sending out multiple posts for us updating our profile pic)
Larne Music Festival Syllabus 2020 is now available online at www.larnemusicfestival.com.. The adjudicators this year are Jonathan Rea, Mairead Forde and Conal Oakes. We have some new classes that we're very excited about. All the details are in the syllabus. Copies will be posted out next week once we get them from the printers. If you want a copy posted out and you're not on our regular mailing list please PM us.
Larne Music Festival Syllabus 2020 is now available online at www.larnemusicfestival.com.. The adjudicators this year are Jonathan Rea, Mairead Forde and Conal Oakes. We have some new classes that we're very excited about. All the details are in the syllabus. Copies will be posted out next week once we get them from the printers. If you want a copy posted out and you're not on our regular mailing list please PM us.
Help support Larne Music Festival by becoming a Friend of the Festival.
Larne Music Festival depends solely on funding from entry fees, door receipts and donations and receives no grants from the council or anywhere else. Unfortunately this income only covers about half the cost of running the festival.
Several years ago the Friends of the Festival Scheme was launched and these donations help us run the festival each year. All we ask for is a donation of £10 (or more!) per pe...rson. In return for becoming a Friend of the Festival you get your name listed in our programme and an invitation to our Pre-Festival Reception in the Town Hall. For more information and to join the scheme please see our website. Thank you.
http://www.larnemusicfestival.com/friends
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Huge congratulations to our Chairperson & official festival accompanist Richard Barnes on receiving the "best accompaniment" award last night at Stormont. Huge congratulations to Gleno Valley & Straid YFC on coming first place🎼🎹🎶
THIS FRIDAY EVENING 8PM
Just reposting this for anyone who missed it in June. Put it in your diaries.
Exciting news!!!! Larne Music Festival 2020 will take place 29th April - 2nd May. Wednesday 29th April: Instrumental (afternoon), Traditional (evening). Thursday 30th April: Primary school vocal classes (morning & afternoon), Guitar (evening). Friday 1st May: Secondary school vocal classes (morning, afternoon & evening). Saturday 2nd May: Piano (morning & afternoon), Gala Concert (evening)
Larne Music Festival AGM will take place on Monday 7 October at 8:15 p.m. in the Curran Court Hotel. The planning for the 2020 festival will start immediately after the AGM, and we need to find some more people who would like to be involved in running the festival. Come along and find out more about what happens ‘behind the scenes’ and see how you can contribute.
Exciting news!!!! Larne Music Festival 2020 will take place 29th April - 2nd May. Keep an eye on our Facebook page and website for further updates. Wednesday 29th April: Instrumental (afternoon), Traditional (evening). Thursday 30th April: Primary school vocal classes (morning & afternoon), Guitar (evening). Friday 1st May: Secondary school vocal classes (morning, afternoon & evening). Saturday 2nd April: Piano (morning & afternoon), Gala Concert (evening)
Do you like to be super organised? We'll have an announcement about Larne Music Festival 2020 next week. Have your diaries ready! 🎶🎵🎼🎤📯🎷🎸🎹🎻
Larne Music Festival 2019 is officially over! It has been our biggest festival with hundreds of competitors over the 4 days. Each year we continue to grow thanks to the huge amount of local talent and those coming from further afield. The adjudicators were massively impressed by the high quality of performers this year. 'We blow other festivals out of the water' was one comment from an adjudicator. Thank you to everyone who competed, our fantastic adjudicators who offered gr...eat encouragement, all the hard working teachers, parents and family members and everyone else who supported us with their time and donations. Thanks also to First Larne for the excellent facilities and to Larne Food Bank for providing some much needed refreshments at the festival. The festival concluded with a fantastic Gala Concert showcasing the high quality of our local musical talent and raising £375 for Larne Food Bank. Now it's time to start planning Larne Music Festival 2020!!!!!
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It's the Festival Gala Concert tonight. It features a variety of performers from all the days of the festival and all proceeds go to Larne Food Bank. It starts at 7 p.m. in First Larne Church Hall. Don't miss it!