Thousands come out for Harvest Festival weekend
Brothers Dario and Adriano Cavaliere, Azzurro, at Waterford Harvest Festival. Photo: Joe Evans
Thousands of people flocked to Waterford City to enjoy the latest outing of the Harvest Festival.
Over three days and nights, the city was a riot of food, music, arts, fun and festivities.
On Broad Street, a beautiful, flower-strewn stage was erected for the packed line-up of musicians. On Friday night, Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane. fresh from his performance at Electric Picnic, sang song after song from his 'Gaelic hit factory', including 'The Dance of the Cherry Trees', 'Johnny Don't Go to Ballincollig' and 'Prince's Street'. One song about a Dingle druid woman 'Julí Malone' got a great reception, with the audience singing back the ear-worm chorus 'bean feasa, bean feasa, bean feasa'.
On Saturday, the 80s Generation had people of all ages up and dancing to their medley of the finest tunes of the era.
Revellers were spoilt for choice when it came to cuisine. In John Roberts Square, the Harvest Kitchen tent featured demos by local talents including Luis Martin (of Mara), Hope Cuddihy (The Reg) and Ricardo Nikolac (The Pink Box Artisan Bakery).
Culinary Director Keith Boyle and Liam Burke (Billy Burke's Fish Shop) created 'Ballybricken Haddock' and showed the audience how to make their mouth-watering dish (key ingredient: lots of butter).
Over at Wyse Park, the Slice of Culture festival was in full swing, with visitors sampling foods from Africa, Brazil, Eastern Europe and Asia. The Hungarian delicacy
'kürtőskalács', also known as chimney cake, went down a treat with many.
The crowd heard music from the Ukrainian Emeralds, Hungarian zither by Zoltan Kincses and West African-drumming from Afrodéise.
See more photos from the event here.
