Music festival announces return
OTHER Voices, Ireland’s internationally acclaimed music festival and live music television programme, is thrilled to announce its return to Cardigan, Ceredigion, this November.
Between November 3 and 5, the festival will present another inspirational programme of live music and compelling dialogue that champions Ireland and Wales’s longstanding cultural and musical ties both live and online.
It’s been three years since the first edition of Other Voices Cardigan took place back in November 2019.
Last year saw the event move online to a digital platform, but organisers are delighted that audiences and artists can finally come together again in person to celebrate the close relationship between Wales and Ireland.
This years’ audiences can look forward to three days and nights of fantastic music from emerging and established musicians from Wales, Ireland and beyond.
A music trail will take place in multiple venues around Cardigan, with over 80 events across three days in intimate and atmospheric spaces around the town, hosted by Huw Stephens and presented in partnership with Mwldan and Triongl.
Headline sessions will take place in St Mary’s Church and will be simultaneously screened to Mwldan and livestreamed worldwide on the night online via Other Voices’ Youtube and other socials.
Exclusive content from the weekend will be captured for later broadcast on S4C and RTE.
The event will see the return of the Clebran sessions - a curated series of carefully prepared talks with artists, journalists, creatives and politicians sparking enriching, lively conversations about how we perceive our world, language, culture and future.
These events will take place in the daytime across the three-day festival.
Now in its 20th year, Other Voices is a glorious celebration of music in all its diversity. From its beginnings as an intimate musical gathering in a tiny church in Dingle, Ireland’s iconic festival has hosted a series of global events in Austin, London, Belfast, Berlin, Derry, New York, with a further 35 million people experiencing the festival online.
In 2019, Cardigan joined the Other Voices family, uniting Cardigan and Dingle, two Celtic communities who live, work and play on the wild westerly coasts of their respective countries.
Wristband Registration is now open via mwldan.co.uk or othervoices.ie Wristbands enable audience members entry to the festival across three days, including the Music Trail, Clebran events and inclusion into the draw to win much sought after admission golden tickets to the live performances at St Mary’s Church and other prizes.
Early bird wristbands cost just £20, increasing to £25 on October 15.