Ceol Agus Craic

Every second year Camphill Dingle is organising and hosting an all inclusive music festival for everyone in Camphill Ireland who would like to play in an orchestra, whatever their ability, and for those who just want to come to support them and enjoy being together.

The 2009 and 2011 festivals were led by John Billing, with support of John Clark, Peggy Grimshaw, Martin Scharer (percussion), Gese Mucke and local dance teachers Catherine Merrigan (Irish and African dancing and Natalie (salsa).

Every day there were rehearsals in the Blasket Centre from 10.00 until 4.00 with entertainment arranged for some evenings including a concert of local musicians and Camphill talent.

We also made sure that we made a day available for all the participants to explore the locality and maybe have some individual rehearsals.

The whole week comes to a fantastic end with a performance open to the public.

Open Day & Craft Fair

Every spring we have our open day and every autumn we have our craft fair.

Some of the activities are Cake sale, vintage clothing, 2nd hand book sale, children's activities, tractor ride up to the farm, donkey rides for the kids. For those who love a bite to eat we have a BBQ, waffles, teas, coffee and cakes

During those days some of the items we are selling are handmade scarves, shawls, rugs, baby socs, baby hats, mobile phone holders and other crafts, jams, cordials, chutneys, bread and all sorts of cakes.

Those days are fun filled events for the whole family. During the open day there are lots of activities while during the craft fair our focus is more on selling the crafts we have made during the year.

But either way, both days are family events and both days are well visited and thanks to the effort of a lot of volunteers from our local community, everybody is always having a great time!