Ireland

Music lessons are offered at the Artane Beaumont Family Recreation Centre, in the tradition featured on Faoi Lán Cheoil.

A wide variety of music is played, including Irish traditional, country, bluegrass, and continental. The atmosphere is friendly.

Clonmel’s go-to trad night. Thursday session in a proper pub — no gimmicks, just good playing.

A family-friendly celebration of St Patrick and traditional music, song and dance. Events include a festival village, pipe band extravaganza, concerts, ceilis and more. Further details are available on the website.

Musicians play a variety of styles and instruments, mostly traditional Irish music. Instruments heard include fiddle, uilleann pipes, mandolin, whistles, guitar, and dobro. The session welcomes both tourists and locals.

Mostly tunes and a few songs.

Regular trad sessions and the popular Blake’s Unplugged acoustic gigs. Friday and weekend sessions — the trad nights draw a mixed local crowd.

Long-standing Friday night session. The pub has ‘William Blake’ on its frontage.