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Posted Saturday, January 17, 2009
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DylanFest Moville 2009
It's on again in 2009 - Ireland's only DylanFest.
The first two years were highly successful.
It will take place from July 2nd to 5th this year.
DylanFest 2007
The first DylanFest was only organised with six weeks notice after the idea was first mooted.
We managed to get in touch with 7-piece The Phantom Engineers, Ireland's best Dylan band.
A band was booked from Belgium to play on the first night in the main square of Moville, Donegal.
The Phantom Engineers played the Saturday night in the Malin Road round the corner.
Pubs
Also six of the town's pubs took part in Ireland's first ever DylanFest and put acts on over the three nights and days of the festival.
Top Dylanologist Michael Gray was booked to do a talk on Dylan in the town.
The festival was judged a big success.
DylanFest 2008
It was decided that we must do it again in 2008.
This time Italy's top Dylan Band, Slow Train Band, was booked to appear and they played in the main square on the Friday night.
PetTommy & The Heartbeats from Germany who had organised the successful Berlin DylanFest, played on both the Friday and the Saturday nights.
Phantoms
Again the top of the bill on the Saturday night in the Malin Road was The Phantom Engineers.
The DylanFest took place in 7 of the town's pubs in 2008 from the Thursday night this time through to the Sunday night.
DylanFest 2009
Again the DylanFest will take place in many of the pubs in the town.
We have several possibilities as far as the major bands are concerned:-
1. We could have them play in the Malin Road and the main square again.
2. We could have them play down amongst the trees at Seamus Canavan's hostel just up the Malin Road.
3. We could use an indoor venue with a stage like Caiseal Mara, the Foyle backroom or the Claddagh.
Or, we could do a combination of these.
The grounds of the hostel might be nice for a Saturday afternoon / early evening show.
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