Partially-Covered Square Takes Over From Denny Street Concerts During Festival

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Bryan Carr speaking at The Rose Hotel on Friday morning. Photo by Dermot Crean

THE Square will take over from the Denny Street stage to host ticket-only concerts for this year’s Rose of Tralee International Festival.

And a new canopy-type structure will partially cover the 2,000 capacity space to keep punters dry in case of rain.

The details of the concerts were revealed at the Tralee Chamber Alliance Business Breakfast meeting at the Rose Hotel this morning.

Bryan Carr, Head of Street Entertainment at the Rose of Tralee Festival, explained what the canopy will be like.

“The Square concerts will bring everybody into the heart of the town. The capacity of The Square is 2,700, but we’re limiting it to about 2,000 for the events. We’re bringing in a saddlespan structure – it’s a circular structure that we’re putting into the heart of the Square,” he said.

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A general example of what a saddlespan structure looks like.

Mr Carr said 400 seated people could be covered by the structure, which would obviously mean much more would be accommodated for the standing concerts.

Mr Carr said last year, 253 local businesses contributed €90,000 to the street entertainment programme. He is hoping to increase this figure to 270 businesses raising €120,000 this year, as the Festival has been extended and there is a lot more on with visitor numbers set to increase dramatically.

The Square will host ticket-only concerts on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, it will be free on Saturday, back to ticket only for Sunday and Monday while Tuesday will again be free.

There will still be a stage on Denny Street which will hold some daytime events as well as, of course, the Roses after the Saturday night parade and for Midnight Madness.

Another exciting feature of the Festival is a digital street mapping on the Ashe Hall in Denny Street. In a ten minute presentation at night, graphics will be projected onto the building to form a history of Tralee with surround-sound accompaniment. The presentation will take place intermittently throughout the night.

In terms of The Square concerts, the line-up is on Wednesday night The Academic, Thursday hosts The Showband Show, Friday night is Hometown/Reggie N Bollie, Sunday is Hudson Taylor and Hermitage Green while Monday night it’s the turn of country superstar Nathan Carter.

The bars in The Square will be open for all concerts. For more ticket details click here

 

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