It Takes A Village: Trabolgan set for all-Irish festival of music and comedy
Ed O'Leary and Joe Kelly, organisers of It Takes A Village in Trabolgan; left, Blindboy and Sinead Quinlan.
For three nights in September, a holiday centre in East Cork will enter a parallel universe. A tented stage will look out over the Atlantic. An all-seated courtyard will bring a sense of intimacy under the open skies. And a mobile sauna will stand on the shoreline, amidst the painted rocks and the waves crashing in from the vast expanse of Cork Harbour.
This is not the first time the It Takes A Village festival pitches camp at Trabolgan Holiday Village, just beyond Whitegate and a 20 minute drive from Midleton. But it promises to be an event like no other, arriving as it does at the tail end of the pandemic and the great hush that has fallen over live music in Ireland.
