Open House Festival 2010

The 12th annual Open House Festival happens from Wednesday 8th until Sunday 12th September at various venues in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and includes ChilliFest on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th.

Line-up

The first acts confirmed are Mumford & Sons, Iron & Wine, Modest Mouse, Wilco, Seasick Steve, Old Crow Medicine Show, Villagers (sold out), Dave Rawlings Machine, The Felice Brothers, The Low Anthem, Lissie (sold out), Kowalski, Peggy Sue, ExLovers, Napoleon, Field Music, Captain Cameron, AA Bondy, Matrimony, Joe Pug, Morgan O' Kane & Ferd 4, Dr. Dog, Cathal Hayden, Brian McGrath, Eamonn Coyne, Marcus Moloney & Brona Graham + accompanists Ed Boyd & John Joe Kelly, Méabh O'Hare, Grace Kelly & Edel Fox versus Barry Kerr, Communion Belfast, Lowly Knights, Andrew Davie, Matthew & The Atlas, Marcus Foster + Pete Roe, Ruadhraí O'Kane & Tony O'Connell + accompanists Ed Boyd & John Joe Kelly, Siobhan Peoples, Michelle O'Brien and Paul Me with more still to be announced.

Chillifest: Hayseed Dixie, Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three, Water Tower Bucket Boy, and Morgan O' Kane & Ferd 4.

Tickets

All concerts are individually ticketed and take place in friendly, accessible music venues including our large, fully dressed and blacked out festival marquee. This new 2,000 capacity marquee replaces the smaller twin marquees of 2009 and is the biggest music marquee to be erected in Belfast city centre. Tickets are priced from £32.50 to £9.50, and ChillFest tickets are priced at £5 per day. To buy tickets, click here.

The event offers five days of roots music including gigs, workshops, dozens of free 'Irish Traditional, Old Time & Bluegrass' music sessions, plus ChilliFest - a mini-festival of fiery food and Americana music.

Disabled access

The festival organisers try to ensure maximum access to festival events. All of the venues have wheelchair access. Please get in touch with a venue in advance if you have special requirements and they will do their best to accommodate you.

Children Policy

Children are welcome at daytime events if they are accompanied and supervised by an adult. However, children are not allowed onto licensed premises after 8pm.

Accommodation

There are plenty of accommodation options in Belfast itself, and all the venues are within walking distance of each other.

More information will be here when available.

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