The Antrim & Newtownabbey Pipe Band Festival was arranged by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, Northern Ireland Branch along with Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council to provide a fantastic and safe opportunity for bands, Drum Majors and Dancers to perform in front of members of the public for the first time since March 2020, with many not having performed since August 2019.
Each pipe band has been asked to prepare and play tunes of their own choice to entertain the crowd, those attending the event will also see entertaining performances from our Drum Majors and the Michelle Johnston School of Highland Dance throughout the day. We are all so excited and looking forward immensely to seeing and hearing live music and entertainment again!
The Pipe Bands who are performing range from Grade 4b to Grade 3a competition grading standard, they have all been practising hard for this event as of course has the Drum Majors and Highland Dancers. All of the performances will commence from 2pm to 4pm with a coming together for a colourful finale at 4.30pm
Huge efforts have been put in by the RSPBANI and Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council to ensure that the event is totally compliant to Covid 19 safety guidance and best practice. To ensure social distancing can be achieved admission to members of the public is being controlled by tickets and a maximum of 1000 tickets is being released. There is a token charge for spectator tickets of £1.00, all proceeds from tickets will be donated to the Mayor’s charity. Tickets can be booked online here
If you do not wish to book online, you can contact Antrim & Newtownabbey Borough council on 02894 481338 to book over the phone. Members of the public must have a ticket booked to get admitted, no admission will be permitted without a ticket.
Please note that public spectator admission tickets will not be posted out by the Council, an email confirmation will be sent to those booking online, and a printed list of sale ticket names will be held at the gates for those booking over the phone so that they can be admitted
Disabled parking only available within the grounds of Antrim Castle Gardens. There is however public car parking available very close to the event location and within Antrim Town car parks which are a short 5 minute walk away
