Appeal To Businesses To Help Fund Festival’s Street Entertainment

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FESTIVAL organisers have again asked the business community in Tralee to help with funding the free street entertainment programme at this year’s Rose of Tralee International Festival.

The support of the local business community will be more important than recent years after Fáilte Ireland further cut the grant to the Rose of Tralee this year by 50% to €15,000.

Festival organisers have worked hard to minimise any impact that the funding cut may have, by continuing to provide over 70 hours of free entertainment on the streets and in Tralee Town Park.

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The Managing Director of the Rose of Tralee International Festival, Anthony O’Gara, said: “Overall in 2016, we saw a major increase in visitor numbers to the town due to the presence of 65 Roses, their families and supporters descending on Tralee for the extended week of festivities. This could not have been delivered without the valuable contribution from various local business sectors ranging from under €100 to in excess of €10,000. Such generosity, totalling €86,000, helped us cover the cost of providing so much quality free entertainment for locals and visitors and we would welcome similar support in 2017.”

“We have already written to more than 100 local businesses inviting them to contribute towards the cost of providing this year’s free street entertainment and so far we have received a positive response. We won’t be knocking on doors this year, however, anyone who may wish to make a contribution can do so by contacting the Festival office on 066 7121322 or by clicking “donate” on www.roseoftralee.ie,” said Anthony O’Gara.

The entertainment at the Rose of Tralee International Festival, while not specifically a music festival, is geared towards people of all ages, especially families.

This year there will be extra “Entertainment Zones” continuously filled with world-class street performers with a variety of styles and visuals.

The Denny Street stage returns and in there will be a stage in The Square (all entertainment will be free in the town centre, all ticketed events will be staged in the Festival Dome).

 

Family Town will once again create daytime fun and games for the children in our Town Park.

Evening entertainment will feature a feast of music and dancing in the streets to music of all tastes from Swing to Trad to Rock ‘n’ Pop including top cover bands Abbaesque and Flash Harry, the Ultimate Queen Tribute Band as well as three parades and two spectacular fireworks displays.

The Rose of Tralee Festival is worth in excess of €14 million to the local economy in Tralee with a wider kick-back to other parts of the county around the event and at off-peak times of the year.

Full details of this year’s free street entertainment and Dome event line-up is available to view on www.roseoftralee.ie/2017.

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