The Ardee Baroque Festival is an annual music festival, covering baroque music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which takes place each November in Ardee, County Louth in Ireland.
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The festival, which was first held in 2004,[1][2] hosted its "20th season" in November 2023.[3] The festival was initially founded in collaboration with the Irish Baroque Orchestra (IBO).[4] The IBO has previously been "orchestra in residence" at the festival, attending for the preceding week to undertake rehearsals, education outreach programs and other performances.[5] The festival has also previously hosted performances from Dunedin Consort and New York Polyphony.[1] Performances have been held in several venues within Ardee,[6] including in Ardee Castle.[7]
The board of Ardee Baroque Festival is drawn from the local community and collaborates with the Arts Service of Louth County Council in managing and marketing the festival.[1] The festival obtains financial support from the Arts Council of Ireland.[8]
In a review in The Irish Times, the event was described as "a music festival that could hold its head up anywhere".[1] A 2011 review, in The Sunday Times, described it as among the "most quaint" of the "boutique music festivals staged around Ireland".[9]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Ardee Baroque Festival - Our Story". ardeebaroque.com. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Ardee Baroque Festival launched". independent.ie. 18 November 2005. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
Ardee Baroque enter its second year [in 2005]
- ^ "Ardee Baroque Music Festival announces its 20th season". dundalkdemocrat.ie. 13 October 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "H.I.P. and Happening - Liz Nolan on the Ardee Baroque Festival". rte.ie. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Ardee Baroque Festival". entertainment.ie. 31 October 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
IBO will be the orchestra in residence in Ardee for a full week of rehearsals, education work, and performances
- ^ "All invited to Ardee Baroque". independent.ie. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
the festival takes place a various venues in the mid-Louth town
- ^ "Ardee Baroque Festival 2007". BBC Music Magazine. Vol. 16. p. 79. ISSN 0966-7180.
A festival featuring the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries in Ardee Castle, in the historic town of Ardee, County Louth
- ^ "How We Fund Festivals". artscouncil.ie. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Music pick: Ardee Baroque festival". thetimes.co.uk. The Sunday Times. 13 November 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
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