The 2003 Festival

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Tuesday 18^th to Sunday 30^th November

This year, we are proud to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Oslo Irish Music Festival.

The festival will last for two weeks, starting on Tuesday 18th with the opening reception, and finishing 12 days later, on Sunday 30th, with a folk club night at the Dubliner. In between times you'll find concerts, dancing, instrumental classes and workshops, sessions, dance courses, church concerts and school projects in various venues around the city of Oslo and the surrounding area of Akershus.

Since 2001, the festival has been twinned with the Cork Folk Festival, August 27th to September 1st.

Our first festival was in 1993, and this year will be our eleventh. Since 1997 the festival has been organised as a cultural non-profit body. The festival's board of three members is assisted in its work by a committee of 15 volunteers. A large number of helpers also join the committee during the festival itself. The members of the festival committee, mostly musicians or dancers themselves, are all part of the Oslo Irish scene, and more generally involved with Celtic and Traditional music. All are volunteers, motivated only by their love for Irish/Celtic and world music, and we thank them for all the hard work they put in to make the festival a going concern.

We hope you enjoy the festivities
Sláinte!

Some of the artists that have guested the festival in past years:

Paul Brady
De Dannan
Four Men & A Dog
Lúnasa
Gwerz
The Keane family with Dolores Keane
Tríona & Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill
Andy Irvine & Lillebjørn Nilsen
Frankie Gavin & Máirtin O Connor
Niamh Parsons
Cran
Paddy Glackin & Mícheál O Domhnaill
Len Graham & Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
Dordan with Mary Bergin
Alan Kelly Band
Kevin Glackin
Mick Mulkerrin Briege Murphy
Nomos
North Cregg
The Tide
Toss the Feathers
The Gallery with Micheal McGoldrick & Dezi Donnelly
Skirm
Daithi Rua
Jon Sanders, Pádraig O Sé & Mel Rizzi
Willie Hammond
The Humdingers
Tara
Clonakilty
Ashplant
Common Ground
The Butterfly Band
Three's a Crowd
Ivy Leaf
Brendan Monaghan
Eddie Sheehan
Oslo All Stars Ceili Band
Oslo Irish Set Dancers
Oslo Caledonian Pipe Band
Oslo Session Singers
Rigs O Rye
Corner Boys