Fiddler's Green International Festival
A week of traditional music and song under the Mourne Mountains by Carlingford Lough.
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"The elegant Georgian village of Hillsborough in County Down hosts its oyster festival each August, where Carlingford and Strangford Lough oysters are opened in competition for a world title and served with champagne in the village square while chef demonstrations and live music fill the streets of one of Northern Ireland's prettiest villages."
Hillsborough International Oyster Festival
"The elegant village of Hillsborough, built around a Georgian church and an eighteenth-century castle in County Down, hosts its Christmas market each December bringing together Northern Irish craft producers and food stalls in one of the most architecturally composed village settings on the island."
Hillsborough Christmas Market
"81 years of County Down agriculture at Glenbrook Farm, where livestock classes run from poultry to pedigree cattle alongside craft stalls in a village show that has never forgotten why it started."
Saintfield Show
"A community agricultural show in one of County Down's most picturesque castle villages on Strangford Lough, with livestock, home industries and the particular pleasure of a small show done properly."
Killyleagh Show
"A celebration of the prized Comber Earlies potato, with a food village in this County Down market town."
Comber Earlies Food Festival
"A traditional one-day agricultural show in the Mourne foothills with livestock, horses and home industries."
Castlewellan Show
"Four free days of folk, bluegrass, americana and indie spread across the bars, coffee shops and hotels of two North Coast towns, now in its 16th year as Northern Ireland's most beloved winter music weekend."
Atlantic Sessions
"Northern Ireland's longest-running independent outdoor music and arts festival on a Causeway Coast farm, where eight stages in woodland and meadow give equal billing to grassroots acts and headline names at Chapter 16."
Stendhal Festival
"Nine days of ceilis, sheepdog trials, treasure hunts and the legendary Lurig Challenge Run in the Glens of Antrim, entirely community-run and ending with a full-street Irish dance finale."
Heart of the Glens Festival
"Father Time crowns the elected Queen of the Revel in this North Cornwall village on the Monday after August 12th, after which she leads a mounted procession to the Revel Ground for Cornish wrestling, fancy dress, dancing and feasting in a celebration that has marked the founding of the village since the medieval period."
Marhamchurch Revel
✦ Weird and Wonderful"One of Scotland's oldest music festivals brings Gaelic nights, ceilidhs, pipe bands and distillery tours to a remote Kintyre town at the road's very end."
Mull of Kintyre Music Festival
"A 25,000-capacity festival on a Brecon Beacons estate where ten areas wrap live music around literature, science, comedy and a giant burning Green Man."
Green Man