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online @ www.greatfriday.ie

The Wicked Chicken/Baker Place – Tait Square

The Brazen Head – O Connell Street, Limerick

South Central LK

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The Great Friday Festival is back! Limerick’s homegrown rock spectacular will again be held in a secret location in County Limerick on Friday 2nd of April.
Once again some of the best unsigned bands in the country will converge on Limerick including Funzo, Yukina and Limerick’s own Brad Pitt Light Orchestra to name a few.

Great Friday has been running in one form or another for almost eight years. Starting as a group of just five people, the event ran in a small suburban house for five years. That final house event attracted two bands, a dj, almost 250 guests and more than a few complaints from neighbours.

In 2008 organisers decided to move the event to an open location to allow its continued growth and were lent support from some of Limericks best bands including We Should Be Dead, Walter Mitty and the Realists and Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters.

Last year’s event fell on a beautiful sunny day in April and featured fifteen bands on the main stage and eleven Dj’s in the newly introduced dance tent. Limerick’s premier music venue Baker Place also got on board providing ‘The Bakery’ – a chill out tent where revellers can go to unwind.

The Great Friday Festival 2010 will see almost a dozen bands, eleven Dj’s and a number of acoustic acts providing entertainment as well as graffiti artists, magicians and firebreathers. The event will again be held in a secret location with buses departing from Arthurs Quay bus stop starting at 11AM and will run half hourly untill 10PM. The buses will continue to run from the festival site into the city untill 1AM. Great Friday is a bring your own beer event.

Tickets for this years Festival are available from www.greatfriday.ie, and Baker Place Limerick and are priced at €30 including shuttle from Limerick City.
Combo tickets are available priced at €50 and include coach from South Mall in Cork to the festival and back once the event ends. All profits from the event will be donated Rape Crisis Mid West ( formerly Limerick Rape Crisis Centre) founded in 1980 to provide a counselling & information service to adult survivors of rape and sexual abuse.

The third incarnation of Limericks home grown music fest is just around the corner! Music lovers are once again invited to line up at Arthurs Quay bus stop and be shuttled away to a world of music, magic and a day that will bring warm feeling of nostalgia when you’re old and grey!
Stay tuned for more news, announcements coming soon!

Confirmed line up is as follows:

DJ’s:

Jamie Behan
Kevin Blake
Deadly Buzz
Dan Sykes
Unsafe Girl
P-hocto
Deego
Decorum
Ruan Flood
Tokin white boy
Jonezy
Gordon Agnew

Acoustic Artists:

Andy Mooney
Benoit
Yvonne McCarthy

Main Stage:

Funzo
Heirs to Nothing
Secret Police
Acoustra
Brad Pitt Light Orchestra
Tidal Minds
Yukina
Clurichaun
Heliopause
Grades of Shade
The DC Experiment

The circus themed charity ball will feature magicians, firebreathers, stiltwalkers, fortunetellers and candy floss. Music will be by the awesome Funzo, they will be followed by DJ’s Phil West and Flan Costello.
As per tradition there will be the race to see who can campaign to win the coveted spot of prom king and queen on the night, also the punch bowl and we DO encourage the spiking of the punch and lets not forget the epic raffle! Carphone Warehouse in the Parkway have very generously sponsored a laptop and state of the art phone. Tony connoly’s Patrick street have offered tux rental for only 60 bucks and for every tux rented they will donate 10 euro to charity!!!
Tickets are priced at a very reasonable 20 euro and available from Cathy, Mark, by emailing prom@greatfriday.ie or calling cathy on 085 7073103.
VIP tickets are also available for 50 euro pps (these includse prom ticket, hotel room with residents bar and late check out, the hotel have also agreed to donate 10 euro to the charity for every double VIP room booked and more if its a triple room)
There are a limited number of prom tickets available and an even more limited number of VIP tickets. Book early to avoid dissapointment.

All proceeds from the night are going to Worthy Cause a Limerick based not for profit charity which uses the money to improve the quality of life in Siem Reap by relief from poverty through education (more information about what the money from previous years have done is available on www.bebo.com/worthycause)

Any donations are gratefully received. Please email cathy@greatfriday.ie if you or your business wish to sponsor anything for the prom/ the charity
please email mark@greatfriday.ie for information about doing a sharkdive or parachute jump for charity