Spoilt for choice at West Cork Music Fest

This year’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival promises to be the best ever, writes Declan Townsend.

Mon, 05 May, 2014 - 01:00

THE more I studied the brochure for the upcoming West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry (June 27 to July 5), the more my jaw dropped.

It isn’t just the choice of music, or even the quality of the performers who are coming to play or sing — it is the extraordinary variety of what is on offer that is astonishing.

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