Belfast TradFest has “something for everybody”, O’Connor explained.<\/p>\n
The eight-day festival offers concerts, c\u00e9il\u00eds, music masterclasses and more.<\/p>\n
“We have some incredible bands,” O’Connor said, with the Michael McGoldrick Big Band, featuring 11 musicians, opening the festival on Sunday at the Mandela Hall. <\/p>\n
Irish-American band Solas is returning to Belfast to play their first show in almost 20 years. <\/p>\n
The Anglo-Irish instrumental band Flook is performing and Irish folk band Four Men and a Dog are returning to the festival.<\/p>\n
But for O’Connor, it’s not just the headliners that make TradFest special.<\/p>\n
“Aside from the big moments in the big halls, it’s small little asides that really make this festival what it is,” he said. <\/p>\n
“A little shared conversation at the edge of a session in a backroom bar or a late night tune at the festival club, with a young musician getting to sit beside one of their heroes, they’re the moments that really last long in the memory.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belfast TradFest has “something for everybody”, O’Connor explained. The eight-day festival offers concerts, c\u00e9il\u00eds, music masterclasses and more.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}