Sligo Events

Great new online service launched just in time for the Lissadell weekend

Sligo is going to be packed full of live music this weekend, from the concerts at Lissadell with Westlife and Leonard Cohen, to the Lissadell Fringe Festival happening in town all weekend, With over 70 gigs taking place in cafe’s and bars and clubs all day and night the Fringe festival should give everyone a taste of the festival  music atmosphere, and a flavour of what Sligo has to offer musically, whether you have a ticket for the Lissadell concerts or not.

Sligo’s well known as a place of music, with great gigs from all genres happening all over the county most nights of the week from Trad and Jazz to Classical and Rock, and everything in between. Keeping up to speed with what gigs are on is not always so easy, but it’s about to get easier with two initiatives launched in time for the Lissadell weekend.

SligoMusic.ie is a new online listings service that aims to bring together a comprehensive listing of what’s on where and when. The first step in a larger initiative from Sligo Arts Service, the site is in the initial phase at the moment, but can offer a handy single destination online for music listings. The initial site is presented in partnership with SligoEvents.ie which is an independently run events resource for Sligo town and county. Created by Denise Rushe, it’s receiving thousands of visitors a month and has received a noticeable upsurge in visits leading up to the Lissadell weekend.

If you are out and about over the weekend and not near a computer you can still access the info thanks to a Sligo developer who has designed an ingeniously simple website at www.sligo.me that feeds information from SligoMusic.ie in a way that suits all internet enabled mobile phones. Sligo.me will also develop over time into something more complex but for now you can see music listings along with wider Sligo Events listings, cinema listings, listings from The Model, The Factory and the Hawk’s Well Theatre and even tide times and train times all in one place.  update: and just in time for this weekend there are Parking and Places to Eat maps too.

It’s hoped that this weekend can be a great platform for Sligo for the thousands of visitors expected to come to the Lissadell concerts, and the people behind SligoEvents.ie, SligoMusic.ie and Sligo.me hope that they can make it easy for those visitors to find out exactly what they can get up to over this musical weekend.

Do spread the word to visitors as all the sites are free, and if you have listings that are not already included on the sites please email sligoevents@gmail.com or sligomusic@asquared.ie (for music events) to get them listed.