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LATEST NEWS25 September 2007Online Booking is now closedTo book tickets please call Belfast Welcome Centre:028 9024 660947 Donegall Place, Belfast, BT1 5AD Tel: +44 (0) 28 9024 6609 Fax: +44 (0) 28 9031 2424 Email: welcomecentre@belfastvisitor.com Open 9am-7pm Mon-Fri, 11-4pm Sun 
18 September 2007SOLD OUT Elvis - the Bluegrass Years -
Saturday 29th September at the Kings Head In memory of Paul PhilipsWe were saddened to hear of the sudden death of Paul Philips, an Open House Festival regular, talented bodhran player, and all round good guy. Our condolences go out to his friends and family.
10 September 2007SEASICK STEVE GIG SOLD OUT - sorry folks!
20 June 2007Seasick Steve wins Mojo AwardOpen House favourite, Seasick Steve, this week won the Best Newcomer category in the Mojo Magazine awards. He was presented with the award at a glitzy red carpet ceremony in central London on Monday 18th June. Thanks to all the Open House punters who voted for him. Don't forget to book your tickets early - they are selling like hotcakes. More info »
14 June 2007Open House Festival – hotter than a chilli stewThe 9th Open House Festival today unveiled its most cutting-edge programme to date featuring some of the most exciting bands in the Irish and American roots music scene. For five full days during the last week of September, venues in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter in Belfast will throb with live Bluegrass, Cajun, Punk-Blues and Irish Traditional bands, and even an anarchic neo-Balkan Gypsy Orchestra. The American roots music scene in particular has exploded into life with a new wave of maverick young bands, who grew up on the likes of Nirvana, AC/DC and the Clash, and who are giving the old music a much needed shot in the arm. Open House bands in this vein, who are finding the punk spirit in the music of the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi Delta, include Seasick Steve, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Hackensaw Boys, the Earl Brothers, the Duhks (pronounced ducks), the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir and Crooked Still. A hot new addition to this year’s Open House is ChilliFest, a three-day celebration of Cajun and Creole music and food based in the Festival Marquee in Custom House Square. ChilliFest will celebrate all things chilli from Southern Louisiana – including a large and varied food fair, complete with Cajun Café, gourmet food bar, chilli sauces, chilli jams, chilli breads and chilli chips – plus chilli cook-offs, hot chilli pepper eating competitions, food sampling and cookery demonstrations. The highlight will be performances from the undisputed Kings of Cajun music, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, and the young firebrands, the Pine Leaf Boys. Once again Open House is bringing to Belfast some of the finest artists in traditional music, including our Artist-in-Residence, the Grammy award winning Tim O’Brien with Arty McGlynn and John McCusker; Mozaik (featuring Planxty’s Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny); the local band of international standing, At First Light; and Solas, described by the LA times as “the best traditional band in the world”. This year to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the King’s passing, the King’s Head will host, for two nights, a specially commissioned Open House Festival show called Elvis – the Bluegrass Years, bringing you the voice of Elvis with an authentic all-acoustic firecracker Bluegrass band. Kieran Gilmore, festival director, said: “This year’s line-up taps into a pool of music that is undoubtedly the most exciting in the world at the moment. If people like what Bruce Springsteen is doing with American roots music, they will love this year’s Open House Festival. Bringing these bands to Open House is a major coup for the festival. In roots music, this line-up is as good as it gets.” Tickets are on sale at the Belfast Welcome Centre in person, by phone at 028 9024 6609. Around half of events are completely free, including dozens of roots music sessions throughout the festival.
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