Offical news page of Charleville Castle

There’s only one week left until Violetta returns to Charleville Castle. Joining her will be Michele Faber (USA), Fredrik Carlquist, the great sax player from Sweden – top international performers – along with two of Ireland’s new musical sensations, Dave Redmond on bass and Kevin Brady on drums. All in the the ballroom of Charleville Castle with roaring fires, a sponsored wine reception all in a
candlelit setting.

All in aid of the restoration of the magnificiant Charleville Castle. Tickets are available online through ticketmaster. The Tullamore Court Hotel has been particularly supportive of this event with a large reduction on the cost of overnight accommodation with full breakfast and all the other perks, if you book through the Tullamore Court Hotel you will have the possibility of enjoying Tullamore’s finest hotel arrangement for just €55 per person sharing.

Remember, this is all in aid of the restoration of Charleville Castle, with your support we can bring more great acts like this to Tullamore and Charleville Castle and it brings us another step in the restoration project.

Hope to see you there!

Shakefest has been taking place at Charleville Castle, Tullamore every year since 2006. It is a day full of dance, arts and culture workshops such as Bellydance, Salsa, African Drumming, Yoga, Fire Dance, Circus and Hip Hop for all – a day of ENERGY-DANCE-MOVEMENT. 12 Workshops run on Saturday May 29th from 11am-6:30pm.

Our exciting new addition this year is International Guest Assale Ibrahim from Iraq who will be teaching 2 extra special cultural dance workshops on Sunday May 30th – Gypsy and Classical 2 Veil Sharqi.

Saturday night will host many talented participants in our Annual Bellydance Hafla, Fire Show, Love Cats Burlesque Show, ‘Duck and Cover’ and Chill Out Oojami DJ CYPHER. Package price holders are entitled to invite up to 5 friends or family members for €10 per adult or €5 per child (under 5 free) to attend the additional evening entertainment.

Package Prices are as Follows:

Saturday €65 incl. 3 workshops, night entertainment, entrance fee and camping
Sunday Assale Ibrahim workshops: €60 for 2 workshops incl. entrance fee
WEEKEND PASS: ONLY €99! Includes both Saturday and Sunday workshops, night entertainment, entrance fees and camping.

Individual fees also apply:
€10 entrance fee to the grounds (no workshops)
€20 family pass (up to 1-2 adults and 3 children)
€10 camping
€20 individual workshop choices
€30 Assale Ibrahim individual workshop choice

CHECK OUT WWW.SHAKEFEST.NET FOR FULL DETAILS AND BOOKING FORM!

As most will know Charleville Castle plays host to the year festival Castlepalooza run by CherryCool Promotions with this year being no exception (earlybird tickets available now!) Castlepalooza is alot of work for everyone involved with it, the volunteers involved put in a tremendious amout of work perpering the site, during the festival itself and site clean up afterwards. In relation to that the Castle has an insurance bill to keep up each year and this year the organisers of Castlepalooza have kindly agreed to pay the bill for this year. Without talking about amounts it means that another bit of wieght of concern has been lifted from our shoulders this year and allow us to concentrate even more on the current project.