Hundreds beat a path to Kerry for bodhran competition
Monday April 27 2009
THE real beat on the street will be heard this summer in a small town in Kerry.
Bodhran players and enthusiasts will descend on Milltown over the June bank holiday weekend for the only festival of its kind in the world -- the World Bodhran Championships.
More than 100 bodhran players from across the globe are expected to beat a path to the festival, which will run from May 29 to June 1.
Ceann Comhairle John O' Donoghue was on hand to get the festival underway -- the fourth since the inaugural event in 2006.
Entries have already been received from Germany, France, the UK and the US.
In our photo by Domnick Walsh of Eye Focus, twin sisters Emma and Alice Casey (4), from Milltown, practise for the event with Emma's new bodhran.
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