Greenfarm Festival - open air music and sport etc. - Munich

The German-Irish Society is proud to present the third Greenfarm Festival which will run over the weekend June 19.- 21. 2009. The festival takes place on an idyllic organic farm in Hallbergmoos, very near Munich and right next to the airport.

Moving forward from the success of last year's festival, we have increased the number of bands from Germany, Ireland and Austria who are taking part, covering the wide spectrum of Irish music played by German and Irish bands bands in Germany as well as traditional German folk music played by native German bands and, of course, guest artists from Ireland. There will be a total of 5 stages; 3 open-air and 2 indoor.

The festival will also have two days of sporting events. The Munich Caledonians and The Munich Scottish Association will look after the „Highland Games“ and Scottish flinging while the Munich Colmcilles GAA Club will present Irish Hurling and football. Everyone is invited to take part in all of the games. We are also organising the Munich heat of "The Rose of Tralee" on Friday, 19. June 2009. Check into the website for full details of performing bands, artists, dance groups and events.

Among other facilities the festival offers on-site camping and parking, a free shuttle bus service from the local train station to the festival site, beer tents, sessions, workshops, organised catering, an Irish market, bathing in the on site lake, kids' playground and an open stage for visiting musicians.



www.greenfarmfestival.de
info@greenfarmfestival.de

Drop by if you can.
Garibaldi
Festival Director

A little more info:

f there are any ladies out there who would like to participate in the Munich "Rose of Tralee" finals and fulfill the "Rose" criteria, read below and checkout the websites: Greenfarm Festival 2009 & Rose of Tralee 2009
The Munich qualification takes place at Greenfarm Festival 2009 on Friday, 19. June 2009 in Hallbergmoos near Munich.
The German finals will take place in Frankfurt on the weekend of 26. June 2009 and the successful candidate goes on to the Tralee finals in
Ireland from 21.-26. August 2009.
How to become a Rose

"So you want to be a Rose? The first thing you should do is contact the Rose centre that is geographically closest to where you live: Deutsch-Irischer Freundeskreis Bayern e.V. Munich, www.dif-bayern.de, or call 089-634 99 848 evenings.
The selection of the Munich Rose will take place on 19th. June 2009 at the Greenfarm Festival in Halbergmoos, www.greenfarmfestival.de near Munich.
The Munich Rose will then go on to take part in the final selection for the German Rose who will proudly represent Germany at the world famous „Rose of Tralee“ event in Tralee, Ireland from Friday, 21st. - 26th. August 2009.
If you filfill the following entry requirements for a Rose, please contact us:
1. Minimum age 18 years and you must not have reached your 28th. birthday before August 26th. 2009.
2. Be unmarried or have never been married.
3. Must not have represented any centre at the national or international event in Tralee.
4. Must be of Irish birth or ancestry and be able to verify this if required.
Judges consider many different attributes of the Rose including, in the words of William Mulchinock's song; "The Rose of Tralee", an indefinable quality that captures "the truth in her eyes". The Rose of Tralee International Festival celebrates modern young women in terms of their aspirations, ambitions, intellect, social responsibility and Irish heritage."
Contact: roseoftralee@dif-bayern.de or PM me.

Yours as ever
Garibaldi

I guess I stand no chance of being the Rose of Tralee, being a big fat hairy bloke and all! However last years Green Farm festival was excellent, and I will make sure I don't miss it this year. See if you can recognise famous TTers in these Pictures 2008.

You could be an "Escort". A lot of perks go with the title. See here:ESCORTS

Over 40 bands and dance groups are appearing on 5 stages. Gaelic Football & Hurling, Rugby Football and Eating Moths at Dusk are among the events. Highland Games on Saturday 20/06. Massed piping from 12 noon on the same day.
Check out:
GREENFARM FESTIVAL 2009

Hope to see you all at the festival.

garibaldi

Feck, am missing it once more! Heard so much good about this, was actually looking forward to this this year! Bummer, grumble.

Will definitely be there again this year.

For those of you who can't read the small print on the leaflet that silly bugger posted above, here is the list of artists.
Bands GFF 2009
Brendan Power, Gerry (Fiddle) O’Connor, Jens Kommnick & Siobhán Kennedy, IrishSteirisch, Die Well-Buam, An Tor, Kieran Halpin, Sarah McQuaid, Paul Daly Big Band, Paddy Whack, Munich Ceili Band, In Search of a Rose, Sliotar, Greensleeves, DeSelby, Sequel, Michael Lynch, Banshee, Huckleberry Five, Paul Wyett & Bernie Bigler, Ceol, Irish Trad Heads, Paul & Paul & Klaus, Summerfolks, Shrinks & Geeks, Paddy McCarthy, Flogiston, Mark ‘n Simon, A Pint o' Music, The Burning Biscuit Band, Summerstorm (Tanz), Tír Na Nóg Dance Academy (Tanz), Emerald Dancers (Tanz), Munich Colmcille's Gaelic football & Hurling Club (participation for adults and kiddies), Munich Rugby Football Club (participation), Highland Games with the Munich Caledonians (participation), Munich Scottish Association (Dance Group) and stall/stands selling Irish oriented thingies. Murphy's stout is the main beer... but there's loads of other stuff to drink as well. Tim's Pies will be back in force - a big hit last year. Just ask Crusoe. We're contemplating having ice cream this year.
Friday night hosts the Munich Rose of Tralee competition.
Eintritt €5/Tag, Wochenendticket €10, Familienticket €10, Kinder bis 12 Jahre frei
Camping: €3.- Euro pro Person pro Tag ** Frühstück Buffet €5 pro Person
Loads of details on: Wonderful GREENFARM FESTIVAL 2009
Your faithful servant
garibaldi

Don`t want to miss it again this year!

Slightly discriminatory...

The potential Rose candidates have to be 18 - 28, unmarried (never having been married), of Irish ancestry and so on and so forth... and the Escort - could well be ian! No eligibility requirements whatsoever.

@hams: totally agree!

I'm just pissed off as I don't meet any of the requirements... life has now passed me by.

We might pass as escorts though

Are people from this forum going to meet there?

I hope not. I want to go and not be pestered by the TT hoards!

I'm hoping to be there, taking photos and avoiding Eurovol as per usual.

Looking forward to them already.

Have fun.

I love it when a plan comes together.

The herded hordes are hoarding! Bodes well!

Pentecost bump.

The Keeper of the Rantapine

We have a stand at the "Stadtgründungsfest" on 13./14. June 2009 if you'd like to drop by and get more information about Greenfarm Festival 2009..
Our stand is right next to the Marienhof subway exit/entrance. We have live Irish music and dance and beer and food and stuff on both days.
Do drop by!
I or one of the team will be only too glad to help.
Garibaldi
(at your service)

I keep mixing up which thread's where -- the camping trip to Greenfarm is of course quite appropriately in Meetups, not in Events. The weather looks like it'll be scattered showers though...

The atmosphere was great last year. A "don't miss" event. So you can imagine how it will be late into the evening!
I intend to spontaneously camp overnight there and not join the organised camping on the other thread though.

One Question though, what entrance ticket would I need to go on Saturday, Camp overnight, have a full breakfast and go home in the morning?

Looks to me like 18 Euros for what you want, ian. I'm doing the same thing.

It's not that clear though. Does that mean I need to pay entrance just to get breakfast and leave? Or is the camping inside the event anyway?
I could have 2 breakfasts instead! :-)

Gen is as usual "super right". Thanks Gen!

Now there was a ska band last year, will they be on this year too? I don't remember their name or I'd look myself.

What is a "ska band"?

Define ska? Hmm. The band I mean were the guys who didn't sound sooo great on the demo but turned out to be fabulous. Remember now? Or does that happen a lot?

Based on a quick listen to some of the links, there is a "ska" band playing and this could be them

http://www.irish-steirisch.at/welcome.htm

If this is them, they are on sunday at 18.30 in the festival hall.

I can recommend Sliotar who play saturday night - many is the time I have enjoyed them in Dublin's Porter House.

Yeah, Baronial drugs, you see..
There again, when you get as many demos and book as many bands as I do throughout the year - I may be forgiven.
I'm a trad man myself.

Could you lot pray just a leetle bit harder for sun, please? Or at least for the rain to stop? It's looking kinda soggy outside. However, it's not going to stop us. Wellies on and away we go.

See you later Crusoe!! Now where's my poncho?? Just thinking, we could turn it into a Glastonbury affair if this weather keeps up! Okay okay 6 Novenas and a dozen candles to be lit!!

Thanks for the listening, pjm! I'll make sure to catch them -- the front fella does even look like the one I remember.


FYI. I think I'm going to skip the camping after all.

I don't know why I've never been to this? I go to loads of stuff at the Hausler Hof, but never this event. weird.

How safe is this Greenfarm festival with regard to SwineFlu?

Does the farm itelf harvest pigs?

Now wanting to cause a panic...

As Pigs dont generally grow on trees, shouldnt that be breed, rather than harvest.

Pedant mode off.

Alchohol: your friend and disinfectant.

Google map to the site

Hey, is it really THE Well-Buam who'll be playing Saturday night? Wow, maybe hubby will come along after all!

I just decided to go with tent... Anyone else going today with Sbahn or car?

Well, that'll be The Eagle sorted - no need to worry old chap!!

No rain is forecast for Saturday. At all.
Edit: OK. It rained a bit just then! But that will not stop us!

Great day out yesterday as always and despite rain in Munich & Freising we got away with only a few drops. Eating Tim's pies was the hightlight of my day Glad it stayed dry for the campers last night too

Does anyone know if you can take dogs in?

Would like to meet friends there today that have a dog.

Thanks!

There were people there yesterday with dogs (on leashes) not many though.

And you'll probably run into about half the people you know from TT! Good fun!

Will go in disguise then

Had a great time camping by the lake. There was boy-girl action, girl-girl-boy action (the tent where they were making humpey noises). Skinny-dipping. A she-male band! Well, a lot of blokes in skirts. Beer till the wee hours and who were all those people I spoke to?

My pictures here didn't capture the naughty bits. But you can see who was there.

Great fun as before, but reliable shuttle service this time. They even ran later than scheduled yesterday when the last band rocked till 9.

Where's the caber tossing video?

Thanks for coming along. Hope you all had fun.
Garibaldi.

I was looking forward to the pies too but unfortunately mine wasn't cooked properly - raw pastry and raw hard potato inside :-(

It was my first Greenfarm festival - paid for the whole weekend with tent but unfortunately got rushed to hospital on Saturday (it wasn't the pies ) with heart problems. Had a great time though and am already looking forward to the next one. Thanks to Garibaldi et al for all their hard work!

Pieman,

All the best and hope you are OK.

FF