Macroom Music Fest is a 3 day outdoor music festival run in the Square in Macroom town centre by the people of Macroom to celebrate the town being bypassed in December 2022. There will be a Music trail in all bars for the Friday. On the Saturday all 3 acts will be live in the Square with gates opening at 5:30 and on the Sunday, there will be a family day within the Castle Grounds in Macroom town centre.
Macroom town has a history of music festivals as it was the town in Ireland to organise an open air music festival in 1976 namely, The Mountain Due Festival, with major acts to include; Rory Gallagher, Van Morrison, The Chieftans and many more acts with upto 20,000 people attending from all over Europe. This continued until 1982 and is marked in History to be a major success. 40 years on a new festival has been launched namely, Macroom Music Fest which promises to be a major success attracting acts from all over Ireland and beyond.
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