West Cork Feel Good Festival 2024

West Cork Feel Good Festival is back for its 12th edition this October. Organised by 49 North Street / HSE and a broad range of community partners, there are workshops, film screenings, concerts, performances, peer support spaces and much more taking place across the month. Events will include family friendly music gatherings, storytelling, open mic, yoga, Zumba, choirs, a grief circle and scarecrow building.

This year, the festival is connecting more locations than ever before, from Bandon to Bere Island via Bantry, Ballineen, Skibbereen and Clonakilty. The theme of Connection is at the heart of the festival, especially in the mental health sense of the word. Don’t we all crave connection? With ourselves, nature, our relations and friends, our bodies and souls and spiritual sides.

The festival is all about fostering these connections, in towns and villages throughout west Cork.  Each event is important, because “mental health is everyone’s business.”

Some new additions to the programme:

• Together at the Hall | 4-6 October: A weekend of family-friendly free events at Atkins Hall in  Dunmanway
• Live Life & Sing | Saturday 12 October: A gathering of community choirs in Bantry
• Party Piece | Various dates: A community music-making programme in collaboration with Creative Ireland
• Heartbeats of Hope | Saturday 5 October: the premiere of a short documentary which delves into the transformative power of the West Cork Feel Good Festival
• Wellness Day in collaboration with Leap Scarecrow Festival | Friday 25 October
• The Jolly Jam Comedy Night at DeBarra’s Folk Club, Clonakilty | Thursday 17 October
• Concerts by some of Ireland’s many gifted musicians at Levis Corner House and Connolly’s of Leap
• A growing number of Irish language themed events including Pop-Up Gaeltachtaí in Schull and Skibbereen.

The majority of events are free, except for some of the evening concerts.

Access the programme here.

For further information visit https://www.musicalive.ie/west-cork-feel-good-festival