{"id":533676,"date":"2026-07-05T04:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533676\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T04:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:06:18","slug":"love-is-a-stranger-festival-to-return-to-the-grounds-of-corks-ballyvolane-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533676\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is a Stranger festival to return to the grounds of Cork&#8217;s Ballyvolane House\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">The Love Is A Stranger festival will return to Ballyvolane House from July 17 to 19, with a stacked line up of Irish and international artists artists and DJs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The second edition of Another Love Story\u2019s roaming mini festival series set in the rolling\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41872623.html\">East Cork<\/a> countryside will include a weekend of music, food, conversation, and immaculate vibes at one of most lush country house settings in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Artists and collaborators will perform across a limited-capacity Friday opening gathering, a full Saturday programme running from the afternoon into the small hours, with the traditional closing concerts taking place on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Artists performing at the festival include Move D, Colleen \u201cCosmo\u201d Murphy, Fixity, Seamas Hyland, Sorcha Richardson, Theatre, and John Spillane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Also part of the festival programme are Cork DJs Eddie Kay, Danilo Milk, and Jimmy Plugd, alongside acclaimed food collective Tiger Balm Club, who will host a special South-East Asian inspired disco lunch on the Ballyvolane terrace on the Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Long, slow lunch<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mark of Tiger Balm Club said: \u201cFor Love Is A Stranger, we\u2019ll be cooking a long, slow lunch inspired by the meals we love most. Expect a few snacks, some small plates, smoke from the grill, and bowls of pork noodles built for comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Cork DIY radio station \u00c9ist will broadcast live from the festival across the Saturday afternoon, with The Badger sauna providing a perfect festival break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Festival organiser Emmet Condon said: \u201cWe are thrilled to put together another carefully chosen collection of artists and collaborators to take to the incredibly beautiful setting of Ballyvolane House for another wonderful mid-summer party amidst the trees, lawns, and barns.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cLove Is A Stranger was one of the highlights of 2025 and we are so looking forward to returning to the rolling countryside of Cork in just a few weeks, with final tickets moving fast in the summer sunshine,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Love Is A Stranger offers Saturday day tickets and overnight camping tickets, with very limited Friday early access and welcome party tickets also available \u2014 complete with a selection of spectacular boutique accommodation options unique to Ballyvolane House.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Love Is A Stranger festival will return to Ballyvolane House from July 17 to 19, with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38921,79,43164,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-533676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-festivals","tag-cork-news","tag-east-cork","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}