TEMPLE HOUSE MUSIC FESTIVAL

NAMED BEST NEW EUROPEAN FESTIVAL
AT EUROPEAN AWARDS

Wednesday, 12^th January 2011 : Temple House Festival, Ireland’s newest boutique music & arts festival, has been just been named “Best New Festival” at the European Festival Awards. The winners were announced at an awards ceremony which took place in Groningen's Stadsschouwburg in The Netherlands, as part of the 25^th Anniversary edition of Eurosonic Noorderslag.

The Temple House Music & Arts Festival was the only Irish festival in the Best New Festival category and competed against festivals from all over Europe including Daydream Festival – Belgium; E-tropolis Festival – Germany; Once upon a Festival – Belgium; Sonisphere Festival - Czech Republic; Sonisphere Festival – Poland; Sonisphere Festival – Turkey; Stop Making Sense – Croatia; The Big Snow Festival – Andorra and Zita Rock Festival – Germany. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world voted.

The first Temple House Music & Arts Festival took place in the grounds of the Temple House Estate, near Ballymote in Sligo from 10-12 September 2010. The festival had an eclectic line-up of music including alternative & indie rock, reggae, funk, blues, soul, dance, roots, folk, trad, electro and rock & roll. Over 80 acts including The Wailers, Howard Jones, NYPC, The Undertones, Damien Dempsey, The Walls, The Stunning, The Sawdoctors, O Emperor, Bipolar Empire, The Shoos, RSAG, Miracle Bell, Peter Hook and Terry Hall and entertained almost 4,000 music fans over 3 days.

Roderick Perceval, Temple House said: We are absolutely thrilled that the first ever Temple House Music & Arts Festival has been named Best New European Festival at the European Festival Awards. It’s fantastic that everyone’s hard work has been recognised by festival goers. We hope that the second Temple House Festival, which will take place from 10-12 June 2011 will be an even greater success.”

The European Festival Awards are run by Festival Awards Ltd, an independent company who produce the Festival Awards Europe and the UK Festival Awards and Conference. The Awards are a chance for the hard work of the festival industry to be recognised, both by fan voting and through judging panels made up of experts.

The majority of the Awards are voted for by the general public through the online platform. The remaining Awards are decided by panels of journalists and other industry experts. In order to create a level playing field for events, no matter what their capacity, voting is weighted based on capacity and the number of tickets sold.

Editors Note: Early bird tickets for the 2011 Temple House Music & Arts Festival (June 10^th - 12^th 2011) will go on sale in February.

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Nicola Watkins Public Relations

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