{"id":10933,"date":"2016-03-09T09:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T08:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=10933"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T08:14:25","slug":"glenarm-gives-its-%e2%80%98commitment%e2%80%99-to-hosting-dalriada%e2%80%99s-biggest-ever-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/03\/glenarm-gives-its-%e2%80%98commitment%e2%80%99-to-hosting-dalriada%e2%80%99s-biggest-ever-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"GLENARM GIVES ITS \u2018COMMITMENT\u2019 TO HOSTING DALRIADA\u2019S BIGGEST EVER FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Andrew Strong, to the Highland Games V Strong Man Competition and an eclectic mix of entertainment for all the family in between, the Dalriada Festival at Glenarm Castle promises to host its strongest, biggest and best festival line-up to date on 16 and 17 July 2016. <\/strong><\/h1>\n

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From Andrew Strong, to the Highland Games V Strong Man Competition and an eclectic mix of entertainment for all the family in between, the Dalriada Festival at Glenarm Castle promises to host its strongest, biggest and best festival line-up to date on 16 and 17 July 2016. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, Soul Sensation Andrew Strong flew in to launch Dalriada Festival, Ireland\u2019s Biggest Cultural and Heritage Event, in the opulent surroundings of Glenarm Castle.\u00a0 The star of the epic movie The Commitments says he\u2019s looking forward to his only Northern Irish festival date on Saturday 16th July with his Soul Orchestra, which guarantees to be a sell-out concert. He says;<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is the 25th<\/sup> anniversary of The Commitments and I\u2019m really looking forward to celebrating this mile-stone by performing all the movie hits and more at Dalriada Festival.\u00a0 The setting at Glenarm Castle in the heart of the Glens of Antrim is second to none, and with fabulous acoustics my concert promises to be rockin!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The launch also unveiled the exciting programme of events to take place at the historic Glenarm Castle on 16th<\/sup> & 17th<\/sup> July to include the world famous Highland Games and Strongman, The County Antrim Pipe Band Championships, numerous music, comedy and dance stages, fine foods, and for the little ones, the hugely popular and Official PAW PATROL from Nickelodeon \u2013 their first appearance ever in Northern Ireland. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The community of Glenarm will take up the baton from 18th<\/sup> \u2013 23rd<\/sup> July and will host an action-packed programme of sporting events and other entertainment including a duathlon, triathlon, super-endurocross, rowing regatta and mountain bike enduro race. The festival will culminate with a street fair, carnival and fireworks finale on 23rd <\/sup>July.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nigel Campbell, Events and Marketing Manager for Glenarm Castle, is excited about the forthcoming festival.\u00a0 He says; <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the 6th annual Dalriada Festival and year on year the event gets even bigger and better.\u00a0 Almost 30,000 people attended our festival in 2015 and we are confident that we\u2019re going to attract even more footfall this year, with such a strong festival line-up. To host Andrew Strong\u2019s only Northern Irish date this year, as well as having Nickelodeon\u2019s PAW PATROL\u2019s first ever appearance in the province, is a real cue. There\u2019s already a great buzz about our festival in the community and further afield and we are indebted to all our sponsors for their continued support, especially The Camlin Group, Tourism NI & Mid & East Antrim Council.\u00a0 Without their financial commitment to our festival, we just wouldn\u2019t be able to offer this top class entertainment<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Eddie Rowan from Tourism NI is proud to be supporting the festival.\u00a0 He says; <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dalriada Festival of Sport, Music and Food is recognised as one of Northern Ireland\u2019s biggest cultural family events. This event certainly helps to boost our economy and puts the Antrim Coast firmly on the \u2018Best tourist attraction\u2019 map.\u00a0 It\u2019s encouraging that people travel to the festival from all over Ireland, England, Scotland, <\/em><\/strong>Wales, Europe, The Middle East, America and Canada to enjoy the wide range and diverse program of events on offer.\u00a0 Tourism NI is delighted to yet again support the Dalriada Festival and we wish the festival every success for 2016.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid and East Antrim Council\u2019s Alderman Tommy Nicholl added; <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Council is very pleased to support Dalriada Festival again this year.\u00a0 The Festival offers a really unique visitor experience and we recognise the positive social, cultural and economic impact that the event has had on the Borough and indeed for Northern Ireland in recent years. We\u2019re looking forward to another packed programme of events this summer.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Day passes for 16th<\/sup> and 17th<\/sup> July are now on sale via <\/strong>www.dalriadafestival.co.uk<\/strong><\/a> and with an incredible but limited 33% DISCOUNT if purchased before 22nd<\/sup> March. Children Under 12 also go FREE. Saturday evening concert tickets for Andrew Strong and camping packages are also on sale via the website. Saturday night concert tickets can also be purchased at <\/strong>www.ticketmaster.ie<\/strong><\/a> priced at \u00a328.50. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For festival tickets and transport packages direct from Belfast contact <\/strong>www.irishtourtickets.com<\/strong><\/a> or phone 028 90310101. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Andrew Strong, to the Highland Games V Strong Man Competition and an eclectic mix of entertainment for all the family in between, the Dalriada Festival at Glenarm Castle promises to host its strongest, biggest and best festival line-up to date on 16 and 17 July 2016. Yesterday, Soul Sensation Andrew Strong flew in to … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10936,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions\/10936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}