Electric Picnic Music Festival
Stradbally Hall Estate, County Laois
2nd to 4th September 2011
Three day Music & Arts Festival Electric Picnic. The festival boasts ten stages representing world class artists in all genres from hip-hop to electronica, soul & funk to rock, dance to reggae + a very popular comedy tent. But the Electric Picnic is about much more than music… There is theatre, arts, circus, burlesque can-can girls, 1950s cocktail oudoirs, pantomime, a healing village, silent disco, weddings and confessionals in an Inflatable Church, Soul Kids, political debate, cinema, global green and very, very tasty and healthy food.
Here, imagination is everything – from ad hoc performances in natural amphitheatres to giant caterpillars up trees. The beautiful way in which the grounds are decorated really gives the feeling that you are entering another world for the weekend, which in a sense you really are.
Kids: Electric Picnic welcomes all accompanied children under-12 to the festival. For free!
Entertainment: Soul Kids…contained in the walled gardens of the estate, dynamic, playful and ridiculously colourful kids field will house fun games, creative workshops, movies, arts and crafts, puppet making and circus skills.
