Late night Folk/ Irish / Trad

[mattiloy]

I dunno about anybody else but the only thing Glastonbury lacks and cries out for is an all-night (or at least late night) spot for trad/folk/irish music. Theres no sound so honest and uplifting than a good bit o' fiddle n some auld toothless fella dancing a jig around a broom and after many nights getting battered to bass music I feel like I crave a bit of something that is suitably jolly & pleasant (without losing any of the energy you require in the early hours of the morning). I also feel like that the genre exactly invokes all that Glastonbury is, so far as I perceive Glastonbury to capture our mystical heritage, presiding over the ancient spiritual link to our isles mystical druidic history.

Something jars in my being every time I spend a night dancing to bass music and doing drugs, then I sit on top of the hill and observe the nature after the chaos has subsided and I think... what a fraud we all are. Hedonism isn't it. Its supposed to be a celebration of the land, the music and of people.

I need folk, I need trad, I need Irish at 5am. It can remind us what we're here for. Its not about hedonism. Its about the land, the people and the music!

[Platt073]

There is some and I've always seen it late on too, Avalon often going to 3am.

2015 Mad Dog Mcrea was on a 12.30 on the Sunday after The Who.

I've seen 3 Daft Monkeys playing at 02.30/0300 after being down the late night area.

[incident]

Errr.. take a wander around at the Green Fields and the Tipi Field and you should often be able to find something along those lines.

There's definitely no lack of it at the Festival, including after midnight. I think you've just been looking in the wrong places.

[Sawdusty surfer]

Green Futures Field is your best bet, several small late night venues there and if you can find it,surprisingly enough, you might well hear some Irish music in the Irish Underground Piano Bar.

[Wooderson]

I dunno about anybody else but the only thing Glastonbury lacks and cries out for is an all-night (or at least late night) spot for trad/folk/irish music. Theres no sound so honest and uplifting than a good bit o' fiddle n some auld toothless fella dancing a jig around a broom and after many nights getting battered to bass music I feel like I crave a bit of something that is suitably jolly & pleasant (without losing any of the energy you require in the early hours of the morning). I also feel like that the genre exactly invokes all that Glastonbury is, so far as I perceive Glastonbury to capture our mystical heritage, presiding over the ancient spiritual link to our isles mystical druidic history.

Something jars in my being every time I spend a night dancing to bass music and doing drugs, then I sit on top of the hill and observe the nature after the chaos has subsided and I think... what a fraud we all are. Hedonism isn't it. Its supposed to be a celebration of the land, the music and of people.

I need folk, I need trad, I need Irish at 5am. It can remind us what we're here for. Its not about hedonism. Its about the land, the people and the music!

Northsider?

[dingbat2]

You need to do your homework when the lull line up gets announced. There's plenty of trad/irish/folk music around the site, you just have to find it, by checking the full line up in advance. You can find it anywhere late at night, whether that be in the Crows Nest, the Bimble Inn, Avalon or anywhere in the Greenfields area. I even found someone who could be considered folky in a small venue in Shangri La last year, wth the delightfully brilliant son "George Osbourne is a c@?t"

[dingbat2]

You need to do your homework when the lull line up gets announced. There's plenty of trad/irish/folk music around the site, you just have to find it, by checking the full line up in advance. You can find it anywhere late at night, whether that be in the Crows Nest, the Bimble Inn, Avalon or anywhere in the Greenfields area. I even found someone who could be considered folky in a small venue in Shangri La last year, wth the delightfully brilliant son "George Osbourne is a c@?t"

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.. And the Acoustic stage, and Strummervile, and The Park. Yep, anywhere in fact

[Thearg]

I agree with dingbat,you need to sift through the Classfinder with a fine tooth comb,it's all in there.

Maybe start a thread for recommendations nearer the time.

[Wooderson]

Underground bar in Dragon field is ran by a half-dozen Dublin lads on poitín the entire weekend.

[Thearg]

Dr Schwamp in the Bimble inn was one of my highlights this year especially when he whipped out the bagpipes for the saxophone break.

[frostypaw]

This is a bit of a "Huh? Really?" thread...

Go to the Greenfields rather than the SE Corner/Park/SilverHayes - the green futures field has a number of folk/trad centred stages and further up there's the piano bar as mentioned - then the park has it's moments too but more rarely

I'm not sure there's been a Glastonbury I've been to in 11 festivals without wandering past some mad jig at 3am at some point

Edited October 11, 2015 by frostypaw