Live music review: Westport Festival

Westport, Co Mayo

Although it’s conceived as a festival of music and food, the majority of punters strolling around the grounds of Westport House last weekend didn’t really care a sausage for the festival’s more culinary dimensions. Most were there for the music bill which — in its broad, unfussy way — included Bryan Adams, Kool and the Gang, Shane Filan, Sinead O’Connor, David Gray, and the Divine Comedy.

The mix of indie-rock and mainstream nostalgia brought together a nicely varied, family-friendly crowd, and it made for a pleasant laid-back vibe over the course of two days of bounteous sunshine.