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Music lovers from all over Ireland are set to descend on Ballyvaughan this weekend for the second ever Common Threads festival. The event, which is the brainchild of North Clare’s own Daithí O Dronaí and Peter Kelly, is a two-day trail of music and cultural discovery set in the backdrop of the North Clare Burren. With over a decade of experience in Ireland’s music and arts scene, they aim to break the mold on what a traditional music festival looks like and explore the common links and threads between a vibrant local community, key cultural spaces and an important natural landscape, while embellishing all of these common threads with art, live music and discovery. The event combines a musical bus tour around the Burren with a number of set-piece musical events. Tickets for the bus tour sold out immediately, and due to overwhelming demand, the organisers have launched individual show tickets which are now on sale. “Common Threads is now …
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