The Gathering Festival
The Gathering Festival of Music & Arts 2026
Wed March 4th – Sun March 8th 2026
EVENT PROGRAMME
Wednesday 4th March
9.00pm Ui Bhriain Ceili Band
Scartaglen Tickets €12.00 (Tickets on the door)
Bus & Ceili €18.00
(Bus leaving Gleneagle reception at 8.00pm)
Thursday 5th March
Local Schools Schools Outreach Programme
This event would not be possible without the sponsorship of Killarney Credit Union/ Kerry Arts Office and Kerry Country Council.
FREE ENTRY
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7.30pm Connor Connolly, Sorcha Costello & Padraigh O Dubhghail
In Concert plus support act
Gleneagle Club
Tickets €15
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9.00pm Ceili with Neily O Connor
Gleneagle Ballroom
Tickets €12 (Tickets on the Door)
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Friday 6th March
4.30pm Welcome Ceili – Free Entry
Gleneagle Ballroom
7.30pm Buttons & Bows Concert
Gleneagle Club Plus support Siobhain Peoples, Michael Blackie O Connell & Seanie Vaughan
Tickets €25.00
Late Night Festival Club
Gleneagle Club
11pm POLCA 4
9.00pm Ceili with Shandrum Ceili Band
Gleneagle Ballroom
Tickets €12.00 (Tickets on the Door)
Saturday March 7th
10.30am Fiddle Workshop with Siobhain Peoples
Tv Lounge
Tickets Full Day €12 (Tickets available from the Box Office)
Half Day €6
10.30am Set Dance Workshop with Pat Murphy
Gleneagle Ballroom,
Tickets €12 / half day €6
10.30pm Sean Nos Dancing workshop with Edwina Guckian
Gleneagle Club
Tickets €12.00 / half day €6
10.30am Set Dance class with John the Leaper Lynch
Green Room (Beginners Welcome) Cork & Kerry Sets
1.00pm Lunch Time Trad Session
Backstage Bar with Connie Connell, Frances O Connor, Eileen De Paor &
Aine O Connell.
FREE ENTRY
2.30pm -3.30pm Free Session with Ger Cullane
MOD Suite 5 (located upstairs right of the box office)
5pm Mass (not to be advertised)
Gleneagle Ballroom
6pm Book Launch ‘The Iron Bridge’ A book of self- composed tunes by Ger Culhane
Green Room Followed by Album Launch with Aidan Connolly & Bryan O Leary
Free Entry ‘’The Groves of Gneevguilla’’
7pm
Gleneagle Lobby Trad Session
Free Entry
7.30pm Singers Concert
MOD Suite 1 (Located upstairs right of the box office)
€12 on the door with Tim Dennehy, Andrew Basquille, Evelyn O Connell, Jim Walsh, Ella Marie O Dwyer, Pat O Sullivan, Christy Cronin, Tom McKenna, Kathleen and Marian McCann & Richie Fitzgerald & Gerry Kelliher
7.00pm Mick McGoldrick, John Doyle & John McCusker
Concert with guests Si Luachra
Gleneagle Club
Tickets €30
Late Night Festival Club
Gleneagle Club
11pm
11pm Traditional Irish Session
Gleneagle Lobby with Orlaith & Brogan McAulliffe and Stephen McKee & Tim O Shea
Free Entry & Guests Stephen Makay
Sunday March 8th
2.30pm Afternoon Ceili with Johnny Reidy
Tickets €12
Lunch Time Session Backstage Bar with Mike & John Brosnan, Mary Conroy & Tim Kerrins
1pm
Gleneagle Club Concert with ‘’The Star above the Garter reprise’’ with Billy Clifford,
4pm Niamh Dalton & Coleen Angland, Bryan O Leary, Aidan Connolly & Colm Guilfoyle
Tickets €15.00 on the door
Session Backstage Bar
7pm with Eilish Murphy, Jonathan Roche & Emma O Leary
Free Entry
