Love Is A Stranger festival lands in East Cork this weekend — here's what to expect

Breda Graham speaks to festival director Emmet Condon about the festival’s roots and what acts will touch down at Ballyvolane House in East Cork this weekend
Love Is A Stranger festival lands in East Cork this weekend — here's what to expect

Ballyvolane House is situated 30 mins north east of Cork city, about 10 minutes off the M8 motorway Junction 16

Festival director of Another Love Story, Emmet Condon, grew up in West Limerick with no connection to any sort of music or event world, but always loved music, which he said his mum Marianne passed on to him.

After a lot of travel and some false starts at various careers in his mid-20s, Condon landed back in recession-era Dublin and started Homebeat — a series of house concerts that caught a bit of the zeitgeist of that moment.

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