The Cork Clipper Festival

50 market stalls, 50 free events and over 200 performers!

Cork Clipper  Festival  7th-9th July

Friday 9th July Blog:

Join us for the festival finale today!

After an amazing week of festivities the Clipper Fleet have left to start the final leg of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. The yachts left in the traditional Parade of Sail from Port of Cork City Marina at 13.30 today, but the party conitnues!

The Race Village main stage will feature The Lynch Mob and the Roaring Forties before global internet sensation Crystal Swing appearing at 7pm. The festival will be closed by Galway’s favourite sons, The Walls, at 8pm.

For a full details on this incredible line-up of entertainment click here

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Mobile Phone Bluetooth alerts are now available around Cork City to alert festival goers of the fantastic free events happening in the Race Village from Wednesday to Friday. Mediaport have developed the mobile phone application for Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones among others. For more information on this application click here.

The Clippers’ stopover last weekend was deemed a huge success as the festival attracted over 45,000 visitors to Kinsale. The crowd enjoyed the artisan food and craft stalls, live music at Kinsale Square and a parade and outdoor céilí all in the glorious sunshine. After last weekends fantastic festivities the Clipper’s visit to Cork City is gearing up to be a huge family event!

Cork Clipper Festival  in Cork City

Cork City is no stranger to international celebrations; since playing host to the Tall Ships in 1991, Cork was crowned City of Culture in 2005 and very recently was named as one of Lonely Planet’s “Top Ten Cities 2010”. To celebrate the Cork Clipper’s homecoming in style the Port of Cork will be transformed into a Race Village with a large stage for music events and food, drinks and crafts stalls. The main stage on Albert Quay will play host to several big name musical acts including Fred, John Spillane, Crystal Swing and The Walls.

The Cork Clipper project is funded by Fáilte Ireland, Cork City Council and Cork County Council with the principal objective of promoting Cork as a tourism and business destination around the world. Working alongside Tourism Ireland, Cork is promoted to consumers, trade and the media in key markets that the race visits including Rio de Janeiro, South Africa, Western Australia, Singapore, Qingdao, California, Panama, Jamaica, New York and Cape Breton Island before returning to Cork culminating in this fantastic free family festival!

The Clipper Race is the only global competition where people from all walks of life can step out of their comfort zones and sign up to race 35,000-miles around the world. They come from backgrounds as varied as marketing executives, nurses, bankers, engineers and chief executives who represent more than 30 nationalities.

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