Fermanagh Live Committee Members Terry McCartney, Nicholas Watts, Evelyn Hassard, Mentalist, David Meade, Rolf Knapp and Rosemary Watts.
FERMANAGH LIVE (FLive) 2013, has been officially launched.
Capitalising on the success of last year’s events, the festival is now operating on an annual basis, having previously operated every two years following its inception in 2006 as the ‘Enniskillen Arts Festival’. It was launched on Saturday evening in the Bush Bar, Enniskillen.
“We all met at around 6.30, those on the board, friends, just for a mini-launch to let people know that Fermanagh Live is ‘live’. We’re up and running, they are fantastic events organised for October,” explained the chairman of FLive, Evelyn Hassard, speaking at the launch on Saturday night.
“It started off in 2006 as a festival that was going to happen every two years, but after the success of last year and the momentum we built, we decided to make it an annual thing. We’re a committee of enthusiastic people,” she added.
The last festival starred names such as Ardal O’ Hanlon, the famous Slovakian violinist Vladimir Jablokov and his Classical Twist, John Toal, the British Council Exhibition and local actor Ciaran McMenamin.
This year, musician Pat McManus returns, as does Vladimir Jablokov. Big names new this year include BBC’s ‘mentalist’ David Meade.
The festival is a registered charity, something that Evelyn was very proud of.
“It comes from the heart, only people who are genuinely interested get involved. Because we’re local, it could work any other way. People are creative, and they’ve the best for Fermanagh at heart.”
Fermanagh Live takes place between October 3 and October 6.
Find out more at http://www.flive.org.uk; Facebook – www.facebook.com/Fermanaghlive; Twitter: @fermanaghlive.
For the Fermanagh Herald interview with BBC’s David Meade, see Wednesday’s paper (July 10).