Our Irish Culture Summer School is back again for 2024!

It will run from 29 July to 2 August, with workshops for children in the mornings and for adults in the evenings.

Register and pay for the Summer school for children here

Register and pay for the evening workshops for adults here

See the flier below for information.

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The winners of the 2023 Fleadh are coming to Luxembourg for a unique concert on Saturday 4 May 2024

Event – All Ireland Fleadh Trio – Irish Music Champions
Date – 4 May 2024
Venue – Centre St Gengoul, 26 rue St Hubert, L1744 Merl 
Doors 19h30
Tickets EUR 15 – pay at the door (EUR 10 for members) or via Payconiq

Following the great success of our 2023 St. Patrick’s Day céilís, Comhaltas Luxembourg is delighted to announce detail of our 2024 St. Patrick’s Day céilí!

We will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in the Centre Culturel Cessange on Saturday 16th March 2024, with a kids céilí inthe afternoon and then another céilí that evening for adults.

Live music and performances from local Comhaltas musicians and dancers.

Kids céilí: Tickets €5 on the door. Free entry for Comhaltas dancers.  Cash only bar.

Adults céilí: Tickets €10 on the door. Doors open 19.30, céilí dancing starts at approximately 20.00.  Cash only bar.

Scaipigí an scéal !

We are delighted to continue our collaboration with Sang A Klang. Please see the dates for our Irish Trad music sessions for 2024 – the First Friday of every month.

Friday 5. January, 19.00
Friday 2 February 19.00
Friday 1 March, 19.00
Friday 5 April, 19.00
Friday 3 May, 19.00
Friday 7 June, 19.00
Friday 5 July, 19.00

Free entry. Dancers are welcome! One free drink for all musicians and dancers.
Dinner available with prior booking: Tel.+352 2775 8999.
Organized by Sang a Klang ASBL and Comhaltas Luxembourg.

Friday 12 January

Master box player  David Munnelly returns to Luxembourg for an exceptional evening of tunes in the Hall St Gengoul, 26 rue St Hubert, L1744 Merl (opposite the Church).

Highly recommended if you wish to enter the New Year with a blast of music !

Tickets EUR 15 (members EUR 10)

Doors 19h30 

Dear members and friends,

We will have the club AGM on Friday 17th November at 19.00 at the FOYER EUROPEEN, 12, rue Heine, L-1720 Luxembourg, in the Spaak room on the 1st floor.

We welcome anyone interested to join the committee.   Our activities are driven by the interests of our members. We would especially welcome parents as representatives on behalf of the children’s dancing and anyone who has an interest or experience in websites and social media.

We hope to see you there (and maybe have a few tunes afterwards!)
The Comhaltas Committee

A powerful collaboration by three highly accomplished music makers: Billy Sutton (Fiddle, Bodhran, Mandola & Vocals), Eddie Costello (Lead Vocals & Acoustic Guitar) and Benny McCarthy (Button Accordions & Melodeon).
Coming to Luxembourg Saturday 21 October 2023, as part of their European tour.

Book tickets here // Become a member here

Formed in 2022, Miscellany Of Folk is a captivating touring act that brings together three talented musicians hailing from Ireland and Newfoundland. Each member of the band brings a wealth of diverse music and life experiences to the concert stage. With impressive accomplishments in both touring and studio recording, they are consummate professional music makers. With decades of experience performing around the world, their music traverses the Atlantic Ocean, spanning from the Emerald Isle to North America. 

Their amiable performance is set to take you on an heart-warming and lucid musical journey through the vast world of folk music Miscellany Of Folk offers a powerful and well-arranged repertoire of thoughtfully crafted songs and foot- stomping instrumental music. Their dynamic and intimate concerts are filled with emotion, colour and fun. The band’s acoustic sound blends the tones of accordion, fiddle, guitar, bodhran, mandola, resonant vocals, and sweet harmonies.

Irish stand-up comedian Anne Gildea, formerly of the 3 Nualas, is performing in Luxembourg at the Centre Altrimenti on 30 September. For more information and tickets, please see:
https://altrimenti.lu/activites/anne-gildea-stand-up/

 The 14th annual British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg (BIFFL) 2023 AUTUMN FESTIVAL will take place between 13-28 September: while the core festival will take place from Monday 18 to Friday 22 September at the Cinémathèque, a number of other screenings are being organised the week before and the week after, at Ciné Utopia.

The festival will include no less than twelve feature-length films from a cross-section of genres and representing mainly independent cinema, from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (in addition to the eleven screened in March). It will also include no less than three Luxembourg (co-)productions: Andy Bausch’s Little Duke, Paul Thiltges Distribution (PTD)’s A Greyhound of a Girl and Cyrus Neshvad’s Oscar-nominated short film The Red Suitcase.

The British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg (BIFFL) 2023 Autumn Edition will open with the screening of The Miracle Club, a comedy drama set mainly in Ireland addressing healing, and will close with the English production The Outfit, a tense drama set in Chicago featuring a master tailor from England. All films will be receiving their Luxembourg premieres during the festival, apart from the recent Luxembourgish production Little Duke which is set around an Irish pub in Pfaffenthal: this will be one of two screenings held before the Official Opening on Monday 18 September, the other being the new film adaptation of an Agatha Christie story, A Haunting in Venice, which is up first on Wednesday 13 September in collaboration with Ciné Utopia as a “BIFFL Presents…” event.

Following the Official Closing on Friday 22 September, the festival is far from finished, with a special screening of the highly-acclaimed Mending the Line, a drama about war veterans set in Montana, US, with fly fishing a central theme – the British and Irish link here is the lead role in this US film is played by renowned Scottish actor Brian Cox. Either side of this special screening are the Seminar and the Shorts Evening which will feature the Oscar-winning An Irish Goodbye from Northern Ireland amongst the five short films.

For more detailed information on the programme, please visit www.bifilmseason.lu.

There’s a lovely book reading festival running from 16 August to 2 September in town on Rue Notre Dame catering for all ages.  The events run in the courtyard behind the former City Library.

Look out for Terry Adams who has a slot on Thursday 31 August 18h30 reading from his latest collection ‘After the Break’

Link to Programme:

https://www.vdl.lu/sites/default/files/media/document/A5_BROCHURE_DStad-Liest_2023_v3_version_def.pdf

We are re-launching our Irish Music Summer School after a long covid-driven break.

It will run from 31 July to 4 August.

See flier below for information

After a few years of having to continuously postpone our céilís, Comhaltas Luxembourg is delighted to announce that our St. Patrick’s Day céilí (balfolk) is back for 2023!

We will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in the Centre Culturel Hollerich on Saturday 18th March 2023, with a kids céilí at 14.30 and then another céilí that evening for adults.

Live music and performances from local Comhaltas musicians and dancers.

Tickets €10 on the door. Doors open 19.30, céilí dancing starts at approximately 20.00.  Cash only bar.

Scaipigí an scéal !

Comhaltas Luxembourg and Folk-Clupp Lëtzebuerg ASBL, in collaboration with Neimënster, are proud to welcome Shane McGowan and David Munnelly to Luxembourg as part of their Benelux tour

Date / time: 20 January 2023, 20.00

Venue: Salle Chapelle Neimënster, 28 Rue Münster L-2160 Luxembourg

Tickets 20 € / 1,50€ Kulturpass

Dave Munnelly is a virtuoso on the diatonic accordion whose repertoire includes the traditional music of his native Ireland as well as European music and his own compositions. He has played with Niamh Parsons, The Chieftains, De Dannan and the Accordion Samurai (with Riccardo Tesi, Markku Lepistö, Simone Bottasso and Kepa Junkera).

Shane MacGowan is an in-demand guitarist, having played with Dave for twelve years, but has also played with groups such as Slide, Geraldin MacGowan and John Carty Festival Band.

For more information and videos: http://davidmunnelly.com/munnelly-mcgowan/

Booking: www.neimenster.lu – T + 352 / 26 20 52 – 1
Information : contact@neimenster.lu

All-Ireland Fleadh Winners
Centre Culturel Cessange, rue St Joseph L 1838 Luxembourg
Saturday 10 December 2022
Doors 19h30, tickets EUR 15; students & members EUR 10

The Fleadh is a traditional Irish music competition which has been held annually since 1951. Musicians from around the world compete in a range of categories as solo musicians, duos and trios, right up to céilí drum bands, and with instruments from fiddles and flutes to bodhráns to bouzoukis. Comhaltas Luxembourg asbl is proud to invite this year’s Trio winners to Luxembourg for an evening of music and entertainment at the Centre Culturel, Cessange on Saturday 10 December 2022.

The Trio winners this year are 3 young musicians from County Down:
Oisín Bradley – Concertina
Aoibhín Morgan – Fiddle
Lucia Morgan – Flute

All members of Warrenpoint Comhaltas, they have been immersed in Irish traditional music from a young age. In developing their music, they have performed at numerous local events and have travelled throughout Ireland. They have been involved in branch groups and bands and enjoyed music trips abroad to North Carolina, Kirovsk and St Petersburg. At the Iúr Cinn Fleadh 2022 they performed alongside Tim Edey at the headline concert with The Sands Family from Rostrevor, Co. Down. Other events include festivals, radio programmes, Fleadh competitions, concerts and weddings. In between university studies
and performing, they also really enjoy teaching music.

The Trio will perform at the Centre Cultural, rue St Joseph, Cessange on 10 December 2022.

Doors open 19h30, General entrance EUR 15; Students & Comhaltas members EUR 10. For information on how to become a member of Comhaltas Luxembourg click here.

Music workshops (concertina, fiddle and flute) will be organised on Saturday afternoon. For additional information please contact comhaltas.lu@gmail.com

 British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg 2022 will take place from 16-24 September 2022, in an in-cinema format.

The film festival provides a unique opportunity for viewers to experience a wide selection of new films from Britain and Ireland. The 9-day event will include 13 feature-length films from a cross-section of genres and representing mainly independent cinema, as well as a couple of short films. In addition, there are three special events being held midweek, including two seminars plus a special “Solidarity with Refugees” event.

Of perhaps special interest to Comhaltas members and supporters are the following documentaries:

Continuing Traditions by Dónal Ó Céilleachair, about blending Indian classical music and Irish traditional music (Saturday 17 September, 19.00 @ Ciné Utopia, followed by a reception with music from Comhaltas musicians);

Steps of Freedom, The Story of Irish Dance (IE, 80 mins) by Ruán Magan, about how Irish dance developed over centuries (Friday 23 September, 18:30 @ Cinèmathèque);

For more detailed information on the programme, please visit www.bifilmseason.lu.

Irish Prose and Poetry from the Grand Duchy by Terry Adams
Musical accompaniment by Terry O’ Brien & Co. (traditional Irish music)

Auditorium Henri Beck, 2 rue Genistre – 24 May 2022, 18.30

Reservation necessary
Tel. 4796 2732 or e-mail : bibliotheque@vdl.lu

Kila play Opderschmelz, Dudelange Saturday 12 March as part of the Zeltik festival – a rare opportunity to catch the band in Luxembourg

For more details and to buy tickets see https://opderschmelz.lu/festivals/1062

We are coming out of a long period of dormancy and picking up activities again.
Dance classes have been taking place since the fall but no sessions until recently.

We are holding a General Meeting on Friday 4 March in Eirelux from 19h00 to restore the committee,  discuss activities and membership.  Volunteers are welcome to join the committee, especially representatives of the dancers.  If you have suggestions or proposals but are unable to attend, feel free to mail us.

We have sessions in Eirelux on the First Friday of each month so the General Meeting will be followed by a session in the bar.

Note that current covid rules will apply

Comhaltas Luxembourg is sad to announce the passing of Philomena Lane.  She was a founder member of Comhaltas in Luxembourg and driving force for many activities, notably céilís and set dancing. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.  

https://rip.ie/death-notice/philomena-lane-mitchelstown-cork/486855

Comhaltas Luxembourg and Folk-Clupp Luxembourg, in collaboration with Neimënster, are proud to welcome Shane McGowan and David Munnelly to Luxembourg as part of their Benelux tour

Date / time: 22 January 2022, 20:00 **Postponed until January 2023 due to COVID restrictions**

Venue: Salle Chapelle Neimënster, 28 Rue Münster L-2160 Luxembourg

Tickets 20 € / 1,50 € Kulturpass

For more information and to purchase tickets see www.neimenster.lu or email billetterie@neimenster.lu

COVID check required, for more information please see www.covidcheck.lu