{"id":21941,"date":"2023-10-13T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=21941"},"modified":"2023-10-13T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T08:04:31","slug":"orchard-county-village-hosts-its-annual-bramley-apple-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2023\/10\/orchard-county-village-hosts-its-annual-bramley-apple-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchard County village hosts its annual Bramley Apple celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living in County Armagh, which is of course famous for its orchards, you could easily take apples for granted\u2026<\/span><\/b><\/h4>\n

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\"\"However, at the end of October each year, the people of Richhill, itself surrounded by orchards, celebrate the locally grown Bramley Apple.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This year\u2019s Richhill Apple Harvest Fayre will take place over six days\u00a0from Tuesday 24th\u00a0October to Sunday 29th\u00a0October.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

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The main event, as always, is Saturday\u2019s Apple Fayre Day. It sees the historical centre of Richhill transformed into an open air market with live music and entertainment throughout the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe pride ourselves on a warm, welcoming atmosphere on Apple Fayre Day and this year we would love to see lots of people who haven\u2019t been before in Richhill\u00a0on Saturday 28th October<\/u>,\u201d\u00a0said Ruth Briggs, one of the organisers of the Richhill Apple Harvest Fayre.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe obviously want everyone to have a great time, but we also want to keep highlighting the importance and value that apple growing brings to our local community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo you\u2019ll see apples everywhere and many of the traders will have an apple twist to tie in with our overall theme.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>There is also once again a very healthy crop of musical talent at Apple Fayre Day this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u201cOn our music stage we have local favourites Catch 22, the super talented Qua Family and\u00a0The Swingtime Starlets, who have also become firm favourites among fayre regulars,\u201d said Ruth Briggs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd then all the way from Virginia, we\u2019ll be joined by the American bluegrass band Level Best. They\u2019ll be performing in the marquee at the castle\u00a0on Wednesday night<\/u>\u00a0and then coming back to join us on Saturday again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The festival takes place at the end of October to coincide with the end of the apple harvest.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThis year we\u2019ve been following the progress of one local Bramley Apple tree in particular,\u201d said Ruth Briggs.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWe\u2019ve had regular updates on our Facebook page as it grew and then started producing apples of course.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u201cAnd on Apple Fayre Day, we\u2019ll be asking people to guess how many apples have been picked from the tree. There\u2019ll be a prize for the person with the closest answer, but more importantly we just want to re-emphasise that apples are at the very core of the fayre.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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A new event for the 2023 Richhill Apple Harvest Fayre is \u2018Richhill Memories\u2019, a night of storytelling on Thursday 26th October.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWe\u2019ve a great group of people lined up to tell a true story about Richhill or one that is linked to the village in some way,\u201d said Ruth Briggs. \u201cExpect nostalgia, a few good laughs and hopefully a few surprises as we will no doubt hear about some of the many wonderful characters associated with the village.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThis is the first year of this event and we\u2019re hoping that it\u2019s going to go from strength to strength.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>On Friday night<\/span><\/u>, Orchard County residents can look forward to fireworks over Richhill thanks to the fayre\u2019s \u2018Alternative Hallowe\u2019en\u2019 celebrations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This event, supported by the local Methodist church, is aimed at younger generations with games and activities planned in the Square (Richhill).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Follow the \u2018Richhill Apple Harvest Fayre\u2019 Facebook page for regular updates on all this year\u2019s events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Living in County Armagh, which is of course famous for its orchards, you could easily take apples for granted\u2026   However, at the end of October each year, the people of Richhill, itself surrounded by orchards, celebrate the locally grown Bramley Apple.\u00a0\u00a0This year\u2019s Richhill Apple Harvest Fayre will take place over six days\u00a0from Tuesday 24th\u00a0October … 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\/21941"}],"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=21941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21943,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions\/21943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}