News

15 March 2023

Programmes will be available for purchase from our main venues on the days when a Section is running. From Monday 20th until Saturday 24th March, at our Feis Reception Desk in Newry Town Hall, programmes are available for Ballet & Theatre Dance (£2) and for Speech Open/Music (£3). The Speech/Music joint programme has all the information for both of these Sections. Programme sales will continue from Monday 27th March until Saturday 1st April, at our Feis Reception Desk in the Cl

15 March 2023

We have introduced Season Tickets for the 2023 Feis. The Season Ticket which costs £20 will cover all remaining sessions will mean very significant savings for individuals who will be attending more than seven of the remaining 90+ sessions across the Ballet & Theatre Dance, Speech & Drama (Open), Music, Traditional Music, and Speech & Drama (Schools) Sections. Session Tickets: £3.00; Day Tickets (3 sessions) £5; Season Tickets (admit one to all sessions) £20

7 March 2023

Our Organ Classes and associated Masterclass will take place on Thursday 27th April, commencing at 2.00pm.in St Patrick's RC Cathedral, Armagh. Our performers will have the opportunity to play the four-manual organ constructed in 1875 and rebuilt and enlarged in 1987. Please encourage all, who will value the opportunity to hear our young, up and coming organists play in this impressive setting, to come along and provide them with an appreciative audience.

6 March 2023

Best wishes to all of you who are working hard to prepare your performances for the 2023 Music Section of Newry Musical Feis. We are delighted to be able to offer a full range of classes this year. While the majority of performances will take place in the traditional and familiar surroundings of Newry Town Hall, we have also scheduled a variety of sessions in three other venues: The Canal Court Hotel, St Paul's High School, and St Colman's College. Details for our Organ classes will be i

6 March 2023

Best wishes to all of the performers who are preparing for their appearances in the Speech & Drama Open Section of the 2023 Newry Musical Feis. All of your performances will take place in the Clanrye Suite, Canal Court Hotel, Newry. The timetable of classes is available now for download - here on our website: www.newrymusicalfeis/downloads  

6 December 2021

In the hope that government guidelines make it possible we are planning for a fully ‘in-person’ Feis in 2022. The 2022 Syllabuses for our Music and Speech & Drama (Open) Sections are now available for download. The Music Section is scheduled in two parts:  Part One Monday to Wednesday 14th – 16th FEBRUARY and Part Two Monday to Friday 25th – 30th April. The adjudicators are Donal McCrisken and Richard Yarr The Speech & Drama (Open) is scheduled for Monday t

5 May 2021

Our congratulations go to the Downey siblings, vocalist Aoife (17), and 14-year-old pianist Daire, who performed so impressively as finalists in the 2021 Northern Ireland Young Musician of the Year.  In the company of their other talented family members, they have been consistently successful performers - across several disciplines - at Newry Musical Feis for as long as they can remember.  In recent weeks Daire has won a number of Newry Feis 2021 overall awards including that for Most

3 December 2020

When Newry Musical Feis 2020 was launched on 14th February by Deputy Chair of Newry Mourne & Down District Council, Cllr. Terry Andrews, and Feis President Mrs Alma Brown, everything was in place for 44 days of performance in Music, Dance and Speech - a programme which was to carry through until the start of May.  As we all know, things changed profoundly just four weeks later as the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic began. Determined to provide adjudicated performance opportunti

20 February 2020

We are delighted to hear that our regular performer Jack Reilly, Year 14 student in Kilkeel High School, and pupil of the EA Southern Music Service, has just learned that he has won a French Horn Scholarship to Guildhall School of Music.  Jack’s exceptional musicianship has already been widely recognised; he is Principal Horn in both the SUYO and the UYO, and was a finalist in the 2019 Northern Ireland Young Musician of the Year Competition.  He is performing in the first heat fo

10 February 2020

Young organist Eoin Cassidy, winner of Class 8C in the 2019 Newry Musical Feis Organ Competitions, performed his prize-winner’s recital in St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh on Sunday 9th February 2020.  He performed with great maturity and delivered an excellent and varied programme to a very appreciative audience. Eoin’s programme: Récit de Cornet – François Couperin; Humoresque ‘L‘organo primitive – Pietro Yon; Prelud