Féile na Gréine Solstice Arts Festival doesn’t do weekends. We open the festival on Midsummer Day, and we close it with the traditional St. John’s Eve bonfire with sets and music. Over those three days and nights, we will celebrate midsummer with an arts festival that ranges across theatre, music, visual arts, poetry, film, children’s theatre and workshops. All of this in a state of the art centre, Tech Amergin in Waterville, Co. Kerry, amid some of the most beautiful scenery in Ireland.

The internationally acclaimed Stephen Rea will headline the opening night. His choice of literary readings will be accompanied by the music of composer and musician Máire Breatnach and Scottish actor/singer/poet Gerda Stevenson. A magical celebration is promised.

Poets reading over the three days are Kerry Hardie, Chris Agee, Gabriel Fitzmaurice,
Eugene O’Connell, Leanne O’Sullivan, Eamonn Grennan  and Aonghas MacNeacail, perhaps the foremost Scottish Gaelic poet writing today. Actor and storyteller Nuala Hayes explores the stories of the Cailleach, or Wise Woman, accompanied by harpist Anne-Marie O’Farrell. Other theatrical interest is supplied by Tegolin Knowland and Sean Coyne, with a dramatised version of Synge’s The Aran Islands by Eamonn Grennan.

A blistering end to the festival is promised when Corca Dhuibhne accordion maestro and singer Breandán Ó Beaglaoich is joined by his family, the sean-nós dancer Sibéal Davitt
and the popular local group Ardú. And then we all head for the bonfire!

Féile na Gréine means Festival of the Sun, but it can also be translated as 'the generosity of the sun' or 'the welcome of the sun'. Experience the generous welcome of the arts in Waterville from 21st to 23rd June.

The best of the arts in the best of weather in the best of places!
(In the meantime, we are arranging for splitting-the-stones weather.) Bí linn!