More than 5,000 expected at Miltown festival

WHAT has been labelled the Cold Pro surf and music festival will take place at the White Strand in Miltown Malbay on June 4 and 5 next. The festival’s primary aim is to promote surf tourism and familiarise people with surf culture. Held over two days, the festival will incorporate two stages with artists like Imelda May, The Amplifetes, Those Dancing Days, North Atlantic Oscillation and Scott Mathews. Furthermore Peter Hook and ‘The Light’ will present Joy Divisions Unknown Pleasures.
Martony Vaughan of Extreme Production Solutions is one of the event promoters and is predicting that thousands of people will flock to Miltown for the weekend.
“The event will attract about 5,000 people to the area and will be worth an estimated €2 million to €2.5 m to the local economy,” he forecast.
“It will feature some of the best musical talent both from here and the UK. Surfing is the fastest-growing sport in Ireland and County Clare is home to some of the best surf in the world and also the home to some of the top professional surfers in the world. Twenty of the top pro surfers from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany will spend five days in Clare and will compete in the first ever Cold Pro Pan Celtic invitational .They will also travel to some of the numerous surf spots in the county with a team of world-renowned photographers who will document their time in Clare and the photos will appear in surf publications all over the world. This will highlight the standard of surf and the rugged beauty of our coast line and, hopefully, increase surf tourism in Clare from an international perspective,” Martony Vaughan added.
More information can be seen on www.coldpro.org.