This from Martin Harte re latest posts.

Regarding the posts on the board. It is regrettable that any musicians from Clontarf felt excluded, this was most certainly not the intention and TradFest wish to correct that impression.

TradFest depends on the support of all community groups to stage the festival. This year, in the months leading up to the festival, a number of branches of Comhaltas in Dublin contacted TradFest of their own initiative and independently of each other to express their interest in taking part, this was the first time this ever happened and we were delighted. It was great that Tradfest was in a position to offer these groups a public stage to perform on, their coming together at the festival is the result of unrelated representations made to the organisers. Clontarf traditional musicians are very welcome to participate in future TradFests. Our doors are fully open to any traditional musicians who wish to help us grow this festival, the 2010 festival starts today and we look forward to hearing from all those interested in promoting trad music.

Martin Harte
Director
Temple Bar TradFest
27 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 T +353 1 677 2397 M +353 87 979 9207 F +353 1 677 2387 E
martin@tascq.ie
www.templebartrad.com