Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:55 Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:48

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This year’s Pattern festival really got off to a flying start on Friday night (22 July), when the fantastic Rhythm Corporation came to town. They added colour, noise and flamboyance to the village as the drummers and dancers took to the stage shortly after 7pm, as the curtain raisers for this year’s Festival. They really got the crowd going as they played the different coloured ‘boomwhackers’ to create a wonderful cacophony of sound.

Then it was the turn of Jungle Boogie – the fabulous 5 piece band played great sounds from the 50’s right up to date and had the large crowd rocking and rolling! The crowd had swelled to thousands by the time the night sky was lit up by a fantastic Fireworks display by Rocket Pyrotechnics – our best ever to date! What a start to the 2011 Festival!

Then it was on to the local pubs for a wonderful choice of music by Ray Barron & Hank Wedel (Keevers’ Bar), Mick Dunne (Round Tower Hotel) and Scooby Snacks (An Tobar).

For a selection of photos from Friday night, see the Photos section of this site. Thanks to local photographer Gerry O’Mahony for sending on his photos to us.

Last Updated on Monday, 25 July 2011 22:35 Monday, 25 July 2011 22:20

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“A good photograph stops a moment from running away” and during the Ardmore Pattern Festival you surely had lots of moments to capture. We are looking for your best shots – the moments that best capture the excitement and festive atmosphere of the 2011 Ardmore Pattern Festival. Closing date for submission of photos is midnight on Friday, 29 July 2011.

Send us your favourite photos from this year’s Pattern Festival and you could be the lucky photographer to have your photograph used on our Facebook page, on our website, and also have your photograph printed in the newspapers!   We want you to develop your photographic talents and enter a photograph which best reflects some aspect of the Ardmore Pattern Festival 2011. Your image could capture event scenes, landscapes, landmarks, the sea, performers and beyond but must reflect the atmosphere of the Ardmore Pattern Festival! 

A panel of judges nominated by the APF Committee will select the winner, with five runners up and their decision is final. We invite you to share something that caught your eye, made you gasp in awe or simply gave you a giggle during this year’s Festival!   

Here are the guidelines for you:-

• Only colour photographs in a landscape format are acceptable.
• Entries can only be accepted attached to an email and a maximum of 10 photographs per person is allowed.
• Each photograph entered must be a minimum file size of 1.8mb and no greater than 5mb.
• Only amateur photographers may enter.
• All entries should give the title of the photo, plus the name, address and daytime contact phone number of the photographer, along with the date the photo was taken.
• Ensure the photo itself is titled using the photographer's name.

Entries to be e-mailed to ardmorepattern@gmail.com before midnight on Friday, 29th July 2011.

Prizes – There will be prizes for the Overall Winner and Runners Up of the Competition!

Please Note - Photographs submitted as entries may be selected by Ardmore Pattern Festival in its promotional material and by entering this competition the owners of those selected photographs agree to this

Last Updated on Monday, 25 July 2011 22:45 Monday, 25 July 2011 21:25

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Well….. after all the build-up and anticipation, the 2011 Ardmore Pattern Festival has come and gone! After the hectic schedule of the past week, the Festival Committee is exhausted, but happy that another successful Pattern Festival has taken place in Ardmore.

We hope you all had a wonderful time and that you enjoyed some of the 70+ events on offer over the past weekend. With fabulous weather, the village of Ardmore basked in the sunshine, while welcoming thousands of people of all ages, who came from all corners to celebrate this year’s Festival with the local community.

From the samba drums and boomwhackers of the opening event with the Rhythm Corporation, to the Fireworks, musical acts on the Festival stage, right through to the fantastic closing event – the Céilí Mór with the Kilfenora Céilí Band – large crowds enjoyed all the events and created a wonderful festival atmosphere in the village all weekend. The streets were thronged, the beach was mobbed, the bay was awash with colour and the Festival Square was rocking from Friday evening right through to Sunday night!

The Committee would like to thank each and every person who helped to make this year’s Festival such a huge success:
-    to all of those individuals and community groups who organised and ran a variety of events on the Festival programme
-    to our wonderful band of stewards who helped out all weekend by manning the stage area, selling in the Festival Shop and generally helping out in whatever way they were asked
-    to the loyal and diligent group of locals who rise with the dawn to make sure the village is litter free each morning of the Festival weekend
-    to everyone who supported us by buying raffle tickets and purchasing Ardmore Pattern Festival merchandise in our Festival Shop
-    to Waterford County Council and the Garda Síochána, who helped out with traffic control and in numerous other ways to ensure that the Festival ran smoothly
-    to everyone who dressed up in fancy dress each night - adding to the colour and festive atmosphere
- and finally, to everyone who came to Ardmore to enjoy this year’s Festival

To all of you we extend our deepest and most sincere thanks for making the 2011 Ardmore Pattern Festival the huge success it was!

We will be putting up some photo albums and stories from this year’s Festival over the coming days and weeks to give you some fond memories of this year’s Festival and to let those of you who couldn’t make it see what you missed!!

Our thanks again to all and here’s to the 2012 Ardmore Pattern Festival!!

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:48 Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:44

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We had another great night of warm-up events last night (Wednesday 20th July).

First of all, the village had to be scoured for extra chairs to accommodate the monster crowd who turned up for the Monster Bingo in St. Declan’s Hall! They were seated everywhere – including on the stage – in order to mark off their cards and compete for the fabulous array of prizes on offer. Fr. Milo and the Hall Committee Bingo Team (pictured) had their hands full, but provided a great night’s entertainment for all who came to support the event. Well done to all – a Full House to be sure!

While a packed St. Declan’s Hall played Bingo, some 150 people took off on a Bat Watch tour around the village with Peter O’Connor of Glenribbeen Eco Lodge. Having listened to Peter’s fascinating talk about bats, the intrepid explorers even managed to seek out a bat or two on their travels – including some rare species…. Thanks to Peter and all who attended for another successful Festival warm-up event…..