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Search By Live95 News Team Limerick s Homefires Hearsay Audio Festival comes to a close this evening.
The annual festival which celebrates sound normally brings visitors from all over the world to the County Limerick village of Kilfinane but this year like so many other activities it has been forced online.
Over the last seven days participants have taken part in a series of events celebrating the rich talents of audio makers in podcasts, radio, audio fiction and film.
Organiser and festival founder Diarmuid McIntyre says the festival will wrap up tonight on a high.
Audio festival in Limerick village attracts global audience
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THE ANNUAL HearSay Festival continues its tradition of success online with over a thousand people tuning in across the world.
The HearSay Festival is an international audio festival that takes place every year in Kilfinane.
Due to Covid-19, the festival has taken place online this year and festival director, Diarmuid McIntyre, explains how they’ve handled the transition.
“Hosting online was really challenging at first. Everything that we had learnt from staging a physical festival had to be set aside and we d to start again from scratch.
Art Critic
Cristín Leach introduces this year s HearSay HomeFires audio arts festival, which takes place online and in Kilfinane, County Limerick from 7- 14 May.
I have been a judge for the Hearsay International Audio Arts Festival Prize since 2013. It s a festival that has always been about community, and the synergy that comes from bringing people from all over the world together, in a physical place.
In normal times, around 150 audio-makers from various sound disciplines, backgrounds, and locations arrive in Kilfinane, County Limerick and are hosted by the people of the town, on the streets, in the buildings, businesses and in their homes. Some kind of remarkable synergy happens. New ideas are born, new connections are made, new stories are heard and told, and a world of possibility opens up. Every HearSay Festival builds on the next by sparking future contributions.