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Awards / Media

Irish Festival Awards

Voted for by the people, Glasgowbury have trumped the likes of Oxegen and Electric Picnic two years in a row to pick up a total of FIVE Irish Festival Awards.

2008: Best Family Festival & Best Service

2009: Best Small Festival, Best Line-Up, Best Family Festival & Best Service

 

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In April 2008, the awards cabinet got a little bigger when the group’s Rural Key Music Project was selected by the Carnegie UK Trust as Northern Ireland’s ‘Rural Spark’.

The Carnegie Rural Spark Awards recognise those groups who have helped to transform the areas in which they live and have achieved something remarkable within their rural community.

Dedicated sponsor of the Rural Key Music Project, UnLtd said:

“It is not surprising to learn that Paddy has been shortlisted as a rural champion. 

“He is unstoppable and has worked tirelessly over the years to transform his area.  Paddy’s efforts have brought people from all walks of life together to develop and showcase their talents, his work has made an impact on the local economy and put the area on the map.

“He is an agent for change and support from Rural Sparks would enable him to bring even more positive change to the area.

 

Here are just some of the nice things that people have had to say about Glasgowbury

 

“Our first ever headline of an Irish festival which made it all the more special ”
Mark Hamilton, Ash

“…it’s the most innovative and authentic and sheerly enjoyable musical festival in these islands”
Eamonn McCann, Belfast Telegraph

“Forget Glastonbury, here’s Glasgowbury, one of the biggest and best loved independent music festivals in Ireland ”
David Roy, Irish News

“…independently devised and run, Glasgowbury showed the watching world how to put on a show”
Niall Kerr, Mid-Ulster Mail

“…take in the breathtaking beauty that is the Glasgowbury setting, this really is something special”
Sig Doherty, Cluas

“The festival has grown from the original ’small but massive’ concept into just ‘massive’ with the biggest acts on the local scene clamouring to get involved.”
Mark Whyte, Daily Mirror

“47 homegrown artists across four stages, headlined by Ash on top of one of Ireland’s most spectacular mountain ranges”
Paul Smith, The Sentinel