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FESTIVAL GLAMPING - Rory Gallagher Festival 2023

1/31/2023

GLAMPING at the Rory Gallagher Festival 2023 - Booking Now Open - Glamping - Luxury Camping at Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival 2023 in association with Pitched Perfect - https://pitchedperfect.ie/.../rory-gallagher.../

Come to the Festival and enjoy the Glamping Site with your Tent ready pitched and allocated to you as per your booking. There are 6 different options to choose from to suit your required number of occupants per tent.

The Glamping Site will be Fully Serviced with Toilets and 24 Hour Security. A Shuttle Bus will operate between the Glamping Site and the local GAA Grounds which will be open each day between 9am and 4pm for Shower Facilities. The Glamping Site will be in close proximity to the Town Centre. A Courtesy Bus will be available to take Glamping Site Residents to the Town Centre at times advertised at the Glamping Site Office.

The Glamping Site will open at 12 NOON on THURSDAY 1st JUNE 2023 and will close at 12 NOON on MONDAY 5th JUNE 2023. All Glamping must be pre booked online in advance only with our partners at Pitched Perfect - BOOK NOW

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HEADLINE ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR RORY GALLAGHER FESTIVAL 2023

11/29/2022

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The 19th Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival is set to be a very Special celebration of the Late Rory Gallagher with a legendary line up of Blues Rock artists that features MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP (Ex. Scorpions & UFO), ERIC GALES & HIS BAND (USA), GERRY McAVOY'S - BAND OF FRIENDS, Mama's Boy's Legend - PAT McMANUS & HIS BAND, LAURENCE JONES BAND (UK), Festival legend and local lads - JOHNNY GALLAGHER & BOXTIE, Superb Irish Blues Guitarist - GRAINNE DUFFY & HER BAND, Festival Greats - ZAC SCHULZE GANG, Dutch Tribute Band - BULLFROG TASTE EXPRESS - all peall set to perform at the Rory Gallagher Festival Big Top and many more acts to be announced to perform at the Rory Gallagher Theatre, Street Stages at Rory Gallagher Place, The Gables, the Rock Hospital and at 10 Pub venues throughout Ballyshannon between 1st - 4th June 2023. Join the mass gathering and Book Now for Rory Gallagher Festival 2023. Early Bird Tickets are Now on Sale - Click Here

It's the world’s largest gathering of Rory Gallagher, Rock and Blues fans and now in its 19th year, the birthplace of the Late Great Rory Gallgher of Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, Ireland will host this renowned 4 day Festival between Thursday 1st June and Sunday 4th June 2023.

The line-up announced includes USA Grammy Nominated artist - ERIC GALES who performed at the Festival in 2022 whipping the crowds into a frenzy with a powerful performance and again will be a must-see guitarists set to perform in Ballyshannon on Friday 2nd June 2023 - Recently Joe Bonamassa heralded Eric Gales saying "Eric, you are the best guitarist in Blues Rock that the world has right now, epic in every way". He gave the compliment after the two guitarists duelled earlier this year in the USA. The Friday night line-up will not be complete without another superb guitarist the multi award winning LAURENCE JONES & HIS BAND. Its been several years since Laurence Jones performed in Ballyshannon so we are excited to have Laurence returning to the Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival 2023. Completing the Friday night Big Top line-up on 2nd June 2023 in Ballyshannon will be Dutch Tribute Band - BULLFROG TASTE EXPRESS. We are very pleased to have Bullfrog Taste Express perform for the first time in Ballyshannon and the band includes Bass guitarist - Dave Burns, a very familiar musician to the Rory Gallagher Festival audience as Dave was ever present alongside the Late Tony Dowler so this will be a very appropriate band for us to have in 2023.

Saturday 3rd June 2023 at the Rory Gallagher Festival Big Top will see the arrival of one of the Greatest Rock Guitarists of all time perform - MICHAEL SCHENKER with the MSG. This is a rare and exclusive Irish performance and is set to be an iconic stage moment in the 19 year history of the Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival in Ballyshannon. We are thrilled to have Michael Schenker Group. Festival Director Barry O'Neill has for many years promised and pursued having the Michael Schenker Group (MSG) headline the Festival so this is a dream realised for the organisers, the Festival followers and Michael will raise the roof at the Festival Big Top on Saturday 3rd June 2023. Of course Rory fans will be aware of the many Festival stages that Michael Schenker with Scorpions and UFO that played line-ups with the Late Great Rory Gallagher. And we are all aware of the connection between bands that being the Late Ted McKenna, Rory's drummer and in recent years drummer with the Michael Schenker Group before Ted's sad and untimely passing. Also appearing at the Big Top on Saturday 3rd June 2023 will be another Rock legend and Festival stalwart - PAT McMANUS & HIS BAND - Pat a.k.a The Professor needs no introduction here, the Mama's Boy's legend shot to fame in 1982 when the band released the classic "Needle in the Groove" and later entered the American Billboard Top 100 with the album "Power and Passion". Completing the Big Top Programme on the Saturday Night will be the band that stormed the 2022 Rory Gallagher Festival - ZAC SCHULZE GANG (UK) the energetic trio from Kent emerged on our stages in 2022 and stunned everybody that witnessed this young 3 Piece, reminiscent and possessing the energy of Rory in his early years.

BAND OF FRIENDS led by Rory Gallagher's bass man of some 25 years - Gerry McAvoy and a host of Special Guests will Headline the 2023 Festival Big Top on Sunday 4th June 2022. Gerry and the Band are firm Festival favourites in Ballyshannon and their explosive energy would have Rory smiling down knowing that the Band of Friends continue to honour his legacy. No Rory Gallagher Festival Big Top line-up would be complete without the firm Festival favourite that is JOHNNY GALLAGHER & BOXTIE - the ever popular Bundoran Band never disappoint at the spot where Johnny learned many a School lesson !!! Completing the Sunday night Big Top line-up will be Ireland's finest female Guitarist GRAINNE DUFFY with her equally stellar band that boasts guitarist Paul Sherry.

Now that's a Big Top Festival line-up that will be hard to miss ... if you do ... then just don't !!!

Tickets are now on sale - www.rorygallagherfestival.com/tickets All 3 Nights at the Festival Big Top are now on sale at just €90 for ALL 3 Nights. There are non-stop Free Open air gigs throughout the Award winning 4 day Festival, Busking, Pub Sessions, the Wild Atlantic Way Gigs at the Rory Gallagher Statue, the Rock Hospital Gig, Exhibitions and much more. This is a truly unique experience that has to be enjoyed to be believed !!! All details on Festival Accommodation, Camping, Transport and the Latest Festival Line-up & News are available at www.rorygallagherfestival.com All enquiries by Email to roryfest@hotmail.com

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RORY GALLAGHER MURAL FOR BALLYSHANNON

9/16/2022

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Rory Gallagher Fans the world over and especially the many many fans and followers that have visited Ballyshannon over the years will be delighted with the news that a sizable and beautiful Mural of Rory is underway at the Bridgend area in Ballyshannon. The artist is Nik Purdy who has been engaged by a local group Ballyshannon BRG with Rory's Mural being funded by Rory Gallagher Festival followers, Donegal County Council DFI from Cllr. Barry Sweeny and the Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival.

Chairperson of the Festival Barry O'Neill said "this is another proud moment in our 22 year history of commerating Rory, from the very start of the tributes in the town at Rory Gallagher Place to the establishment of the Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival to the freedom of the town being bestowed posthumously on Rory Gallagher, to the main theatre at the Abbey Arts Centre being renamed the Rory Gallagher Theatre to the commissioning and completion of the Rory Gallagher life size bronze statue by sculptor David Annand and now the first mural at the Bridgend in Ballyshannon of Rory".

"It's very fitting the space where the Mural is being located at the top of the street where Rory first resided with his parents Danny and Monica and its also located in the hub of the annual Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival. On behalf of the Festival we thank everybody to date for their input and involvement, we thank the Gallagher Family for their support Donal, Eoin and Daniel and we wish the artist Nik Purdy well with his work in the coming days. We thank Sheerin Painting & Decorating for preparing the wall in recent days and especially thank all Rory fans who initiated this project with their support at last years amazing Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival in Ballyshannon"

Rory Gallagher Festival Shop 2023

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