Paxos Festival 2022

Concert


 Muldoon’s Picnic on Paxos

With poet Paul Muldoon

Horslips band & Iernis Celtic Music band



 Friday, 8 July 2022

9:00 pm

Old School Yard, Loggos, Paxos 


Horslips in 1974
Horslips in 1974

A joyful evening of music and poetry hosted by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and songwriter Paul Muldoon, organized for Irish Wings in Paxos by Kathryn Baird and supported by Culture Ireland.

 

Friends of Paxos and Irish Wings are delighted to present this jamboree of world-class guests in a blend of fun and extraordinary musical and literary skill.

“Okay, it’s not actually a picnic but a music-and-literature extravaganza” (Time Out, New York).

 

Paul Muldoon - ‘The most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War’ (Times Literary Supplement)

 

Horslips - Ireland’s answer to the Rolling Stones – ‘Godfathers of Celtic Rock’ (BBC)

New line-up: Jim Lockhart (flute, keyboards) Fiach Moriarty (guitar, vocals) Ray Fean (drums, bodhran) Barry Devlin (bass, vocals)

 

Iernis Celtic Music band based in Greece, called after an ancient Greek name for Ireland - ‘joy, sharing and merriment through love and passion for Irish culture’ (Athens Irish Festival).

  

Supported by Culture Ireland, the Embassy of Ireland, Athens and the Friends of Paxos.




Tickets also available (by cash or credit card) at Chris Boïcos Fine Arts Gallery in Gaios (opposite Kalimera bar).

Open daily from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm & from 7:00 to 10:30 pm