PORTAFERRY SAILS & SOUNDS MARITIME HERITAGE SEA SHANTY & ULSTER-SCOTS PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 2025
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Portaferry Sails & Sounds 2025 
  • HIGHLIGHTS ON THE WATER 
  • ​SAIL RACING - ALL TYPES BOATS
  • Copelands Distillery early evening on Strangford Lough in the St Brendan sample  rum, vodka, whiskey and gin made & presented by Copeland on board the St Brendan including food, drink
  • Boat Cruise £30 (includes alcoholic beverages, minerals for duration of trip individual cheeseboard and entertainment from shanty performers songs from the seas  
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  • Boat Tours £10 p/p no concessions
  • Paddle Boarding £15 P/P
  • Rafted Canadian Canoeing £10p/p FAMILY ticket £60 (max 2 adults 4 children)
HIGHLIGHTS ON THE LAND 
Live Music - Traditional & Scottish Bands 
Pilates by the Sea £12 (with Orla Lawson refreshments and small gift bag) 
Floral Art workshops £20
Ulster Scots and Maritime Talks and Exhibitions FREE
Family activities, bouncy castles, face painting,   
Highland dance  displays with Michelle Johnston School of Dance and the Kilted Dance Company
Irish Dancing Display McKenna School of Dancing

Sea Shanties - Molgoggers from Cork - and Portaferry's own women's sea shanty group "The Selkies"  from Waterford the Hooks and Crookes" and from across the pond "All at Sea" from Ballycastle the "Causeway Shantymen"  
Bespoke ULSTER-SCOTS Guided Walking Tour with
re-enactment, poetry reading, singing, rope making, soda bread demonstration light refreshments and a gift bag , with Brigid Watson Sustainable Journeys £20p/p
Guided Walking Tour Seamus Dorrian (Deaf and impaired hearing) £15p/p (includes refreshments)
PAST Maritime Museum exhibitions "Across the Bar" 12-4pm 
Open day @ QUB and RNLI for families lots of interactions and fun learning 10am - 3pm 

SATURDAY Market on the Square "Peninsula Artisan Market" 10am - 1. 30pm (includes live music and kids activities)
Kids Activities disco bouncy castles crafts and more!

Emer Dunne @ Portico £20 tickets via
www.porticoards.com




Local food outlets specials festival offers
Live music and entertainment throughout the village in local pubs 

Alternative Weather venue St Patrick's Community Centre 














 



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