Unique Clonmel music festival promises a fabulous weekend

When Next We Meet opens its gates this weekend, and here is everything you need to know.
The highly-anticipated music festival is gearing up for a weekend of innovative music with a strong Tipperary representation.
Bringing some of Ireland’s most creative and boundary pushing artists and producers to foothills of the Comeraghs, this is a weekend that will draw devoted music fans, seasoned festival goers and locals alike to the gardens of Raheen House Hotel.

Electronic Music
An artistically curated weekend of music, When Next We Meet kicks off on Saturday July with a night of Ireland’s top electronic music artists.

Gates open at 4pm with DJ’s Lorcan Ryan and Paul Sheehan a.k.a. PressPlayRepeat on thedecks.
The local artist’s acoustic stage, funded by Creative Ireland, sees EJ Mae, Stuart Connolly and much loved The Cedartowns (lite) play between 5pm and 7pm.
The main Walled Garden Stage will kick off at 7.30pm with Tipperary electronic duo Kyoto Love Hotel.
Nationally renowned, award nominated fiddler and producer Daithí will be on stage at 8.30pm brining infectious dance music to the walled garden.

Closing the main stage is Cork musician Talos, bringing an intensely stirring electronic live show with full band to the walls from 10pm.
Lucky ticket holders to the sold out after party will be treated to Arveeneonthedecks (associated artists include The Prodigy, Underworld and Daft Punk) with guest appearances straight from the Walled Garden stage.

Folk and Indie Music
The organisers have curated a programme of mesmerising and bewitching folk and indie music for Sunday July 23.
Come down at 4pm to soak up the atmosphere, feed the frazzled nerves from the night before and see what the Heineken sponsored out door bar has in stock.

DJ Lorcan Ryan will precede the featured local artist’s playing stunning acoustic sets.
Eve Whelan, Ross Boland and The Wood of O will play to festival goers between 5pm and 7pm.
The main stage in the Walled Garden will start at the slightly earlier time of 7pm on Sunday 23, featuring Tipperary artist Smythy playing a stripped back set of his impressive catalogue of indie-pop music.
Critically acclaimed and award nominated Galway singer songwriter Niamh Regan will be performing with a cellist at 8pm while audiences will be queueing outside the walled garden to get a front row piece of garden to bear witness to the magic of Lisa Hannigan.

From a joyous kaleidoscope of love songs, laments and sea shanties to darkly magical spaces and emotions, Lisa Hannigan brings a very special performance to Clonmel’s Raheen House weekend, with a band including cello and a choir element.
After Party host duties are that of DJ Paul Sheehan (a.k.a PressPlayRepeat), closing out what is shaping up to an unmissable event on the festival calendar

Food across the weekend will be on sale from a host of local food vendors.
Festival hosts Raheen House Hotel are on BBQ duties. The Oven is a vegetarian food truck, supper club and pop up kitchen run by former Ballyvolane house head chef Steve Mercer.
Based in Clonmel,The Oven serves flatbreads, Shakshuka and more.

New-ish to the scene but not new toTipperary foodies,My Street Food is the tantalisingly tasty new offering from Tipperary Food Producers My Tasty.
The festival outdoor bar has been sponsored by Heineken. Bring blankets, or get one from the merchandise stall. Stroll around the gardens and witness the talent of local Tipperary artist collective RATS. Get your face painted and immerse yourself completely away from the outside world, for two nights of one the country’s most thoughtful and creative boutique music festivals.

Limited tickets are still available form €32.50 onwww.whennextwemeet.ie. Pre-booking is strongly advised to avoid any disappointment at the gates.