Christmas gift guide for trad music lovers 🎁🎶

Are you struggling to find the perfect gift for your loved one? Do they enjoy traditional music?

8 ideas to help guide you to the ideal present for traditional music lovers this Christmas.

1. The instrument they have been saving for

- Aaron O’Hagan (uilleann pipes & flutes)

- Baird Sound Systems

- Boardman Violins

- Geert LeJeune (pipes & flutes)

- Matchett’s Music

- McCallum Bagpipes

- McNeela Music

- O’Connor Violins

- Ormiston Flutes

- Paul Bradley Violins

- Quinn Accordions

- Ríoga Banjos

- Roy McManus (whistles)

- Turmennan Harps

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2. Belfast TradFest Summer School Masterclass

Save over £50 on selected masterclasses using EARLYBIRD-2025

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3. Traditional music CDs / Books

- Custy’s Music

- Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA)

- The Bagpipe Shop at National Piping Centre

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4. Traditional music lessons

- Belfast Trad

- Glengormley School of Traditional Music

- Music Service for Pipes and Drums

- North Coast Trad

- Ards CCÉ

- Ionad na Fuiseoige

- Andersonstown Traditional & Contemporary Music School

- Counties Antrim & Derry Country Fiddlers Association

- Johnny Murphy School of Traditional Music

- Mairead Forde

- Davey Music

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5. Tickets to see Afro Celt Sound System in Belfast 💥

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6. Traditional music paintings/prints

- Seamus Duffy Art

- Eimear Magee Art

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7. Dunville’s 1808 Belfast TradFest Irish Whiskey

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8. Gig tickets

Check out Bandsintown for more upcoming gigs in your area.

Cara Dillon is coming to Belfast this St Patrick’s night; buy tickets ☘️