News & Events

Award winning chef Jonathon Keane from the Lodge, Ashford and his team will cook up a feast from the ocean using the best of local produce.

Date: Thursday 24th October
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Veldons Seafarer Restaurant
Cost: €35 pp

Limited space, booking essential.
Call 095 41046 or book in bar.
Bookings can also be made by email to info@veldons.ie.

New Years Eve Dinner

Book your table now by calling 095 41046

Live Music for December

We are now taking bookings for Christmas parties. Call us on 095 41046 0r email info@veldons.ie to book!

Conamara Sea Week 22nd – 31st Oct

Weekly Live Music

Conamara Bog Week

May 28th – June 5th

Full brochure now available

 

 

Communion Menu

Call 095 41046 or email info@veldons.ie to book.

Mothers Day Special

Valentine’s Dinner Special

This February 11th & 12th we have a great valentines menu lined up. A 3 course meal for only €24.95 per person & a FREE bottle of wine for every couple! Call 095 41046 to book!

Something different for a winters night!

 

Music this week – Dec 14th

New Years Eve Dinner

We have a great dinner organised for New Years Eve for only €25.95 per person including a glass of prosecco! We will have sittings at 6pm & 8pm. Call 095 41046 to book. We will also have a DJ to ring in the new year!

 

Gift Vouchers

We are delighted to now have new snazzy vouchers. They make a great Christmas Present & can be uploaded with as much or little as you like. Call into the bar to purchase yours.

Christmas Parties

We are now taking bookings for Christmas parties.

Call us on 095 41046 to book!

 

Music In Veldons for Sea Week this Oct

Sunday 23rd – 9.30pm- Rockabilly Session -‘The Screaming Bluecats’ Jimmy Cubbard, Sam Wright & Jimmy Fitz

Friday 28th -9.30pm – Blues/Jazz Session – ‘The John Conneely Trio’ JOhn Conneely, Mark Sullivan & Eoin Mc Cann

Saturday 29th – 9.30pm – Soul/Funk Session – ‘The Good Hustle’ Ciaran Storey, Barry Duff & Mike Corbett

Sunday 30th – 9.30pm- Cajun Session – ‘The Cajun Playboys’ Paul Gunning, John Martin & Sammy Rohan

Monday 31st – 12.30pm – Jazz Session – ‘Jimmy Fitz Trio’ Bertrand Huve, Ger Madden & Jimmy Fitz

Conamara Sea Week 23rd – 31st Oct

Conamara Sea Week is a multi-disciplinary festival, celebrating the wonderful marine heritage of Conamara. The festival celebrated it’s 30th birthday in 2014 and has grown to be a wonderful and unique festival with something to interest all age groups. Highlights include music workshops, art exhibitions, concerts, talks, walks, children’s activities, sports events, lots of great music and buckets of fun for all the family.
A special highlight of the festival for the last few years has been the wonderful ‘After the Light’ parade, a spectacular night full of myth, magic, madness and mayhem!

Check out the full brochure of events here!

Connemara Green Festival

We are delighted to once again be involved in this years Connemara Green Festival​ & their Green Feast taking place this Saturday night. This is a six course tasting menu starting in Connemara National Park and then winding through the village, sampling various organic and locally sourced artisan foods in local establishments. Make sure to book online.

Conamara Sea Week

Oct 23rd – 31st

Conamara Sea Week is a multi-disciplinary festival, celebrating the wonderful marine heritage of Conamara. The festival celebrated it’s 30th birthday in 2014 and has grown to be a wonderful and unique festival with something to interest all age groups. Highlights include music workshops, art exhibitions, concerts, talks, walks, children’s activities, sports events, lots of great music and buckets of fun for all the family.
A special highlight of the festival for the last few years has been the wonderful ‘After the Light’ parade, a spectacular night full of myth, magic, madness and mayhem!

Letterfrack Watertours

Anyone who has visited us over the last year will have seen the huge amount of artifacts & pieces that we have showing the sea heritage of the area – the whales jaw bone above you as you walk in is always noticed!

Many of these pieces were loaned to us from the local sea life museum just down the road from us a Derryinver pier at the Oceans Alive Centre. Make sure to call in to them on your journey around Connemara and also take a trip on their glass bottomed boat too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Connemara Green Festival

June 17th – 19th.

The Connemara Green Festival is an exciting new festival in its 2nd year which celebrates Mother Nature, aims to raise awareness of the unique ecology of Connemara and raise funds for biodiversity projects. The theme this year is ‘Ecology, Food and Landscape’. It’s another great festival in our village. Check out the full details on their website.

 

Conamara Bog Week

29th May – 6th June

We are delighted to be once again part of this great festival. They have an action packed week planned & we will have lots of great music here too! Check out the full programme of events here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bike Electric Connemara:

Bike Hire: Regular and Electric Bikes The perfect way to explore and discover Connemara! No mountain too high, no road too long.

At All Things Connemara, Market street, Clifden. +353 (0)95 22630 www.bikeelectric.ie

 

 

 

 

Mothers Day March 6th

We gave a great menu available for Mothers Day & a free drink for your mum! Call  (0)95 41046 to book your table! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leenane Mountain Walking Festival April 29th – May 1st 2016

This May Bank Holiday will see Leenane Village,Co. Galway, hold it’s 8^th Mountain Walking Festival. The festival has been a great event throughout the years due to the fact that they have walks to suit all levels and they get special permission from the local land owners so that they can bring you on the mountains that you may not normally have access to. If fact some of the farmers join the walks as local guides and welcome walkers into their homes to enjoy homemade scones and refreshments.

Each day there is a choice of at least 4 walks from Strenuous to low level or something a bit different with a geology or archeology fieldtrip. All the walks are lead by qualified Mountain Leaders with transport and refreshments after each walk included. There is also free entertainment each evening and the weekend is finished off with a cracking nights dancing in the hotel.

“ The festival has become a great event for the area and we have a number of walkers that return each year to take part. I think people love the fact that you get to experience amazing walks, while also getting a sense of what it is like to live in a rural village on the West Coast of Ireland. This year we have a number of people who have signed up from abroad to take part – UK, America and France to name a few”, states Martin Gavin, Chairperson of the festival “As a local farmer myself, I love going out on the walks and telling people about life here and the history of the area. In fact this year, one of the walks will be finishing in my house for tea and scones.”

The other nice thing about the festival is that all the profits made from the festival are pumped back into the village through the local Development Association. What better way to experience the landscape, culture & people of a rural village in Connemara!

The full programme of events can be found on the village website. www.leenanevillage.com. Walkers must register online for the events. Please email mwf@timfydesigns.com with any questions or call Martin on 087 6737075

Packages to suit all budgets. Call us to find out more!

 

Some Highlights of Conamara Sea Week in Letterfrack 16th – 26th Oct

Every Wednesday night

Seaweek Oct 16th – 26th

Always a great local event. We will let you know more details closer to the event.

Clifden Arts Week September 17th – 27th

Something for everyone!

Omey Races 2nd Aug

The 2015 Omey Races – one of the most famed and loved events in the calendar for the whole of Connemara, and neck and neck with the Connemara Pony Show for numbers! – takes place this year on Sunday 2nd August, from early afternoon on (approx 1.00pm).  Low tide on that day is at 1pm approx, and the timing of the races revolves around this time.
It represents the only non point-to-point pony beach racing event in Ireland;
Not just pony racing.  Food and drinks stalls; vendors of pony equipment; hats; basket makers; live Irish music; a line of bookies ready to give you unbelievable odds on the ponies…it’s all there. There’s parking for cars on the beach itself. Just head to Claddaghduff and take the turning to Omey Strand beside the Church, and the stewards will sell you a ticket and tell you what to do.

Summer Sessions

Live Music this weekend June 19th – 21st

Friday – Odie & Colin – 9.30pm

Saturday – Joe Carey 9pm -11pm followed by Ros’ Juke Box

Sunday – The Kane Sisters – 8pm

Connemara Green Festival June 20th  & 21st

Delighted to be part of the Green Feast on June 20th! A 6 course taster meal around Letterfrack for only €35.

June Bank Holiday Music

Friday 29th May – 9.30pm

Trad session featuring the wonderful box player Josephine Marsh & on harmonica the amazing Mick Kinsella.

Saturday 30th May – 9.30pm

Traditional music session with Clare flute player Geraldine McNamara will be joined by the amazing Mirella Murray of Cherish the Ladies​ fame on piano accordion & one of Irelands great backers Noel O Grady on bouzouki.

Sunday 1st June – 9.30pm

And to finish the weekend off we have Trad music again this evening with the Howley Girls.

Live Music Every Friday

Open Mic Nights – Every Wednesday

Our Open Mic Nights are for both students and locals, and are a great way to enjoy playing music with others in front of an audience, or just come along and enjoy a mix of music, instruments and talent. These nights are also in honour of the great Aidan Ward, who had spoken to the college about setting them up only a few weeks before he passed away. So come along, bring your voice and instruments, enjoy the nights and keep the music and madness alive!

Mothers Day March 15th

Ros’s Juke Box March 7th

We are starting the first of our many music nights on Saturday 7th March with Ros’s Juke Box. If we don’t have your song this week, we will have for the next time! Come along and enjoy!

Live Music – Saturday February 28th

We will have live music in the bar with Kenneth & Paul. Come along enjoy some dinner & stay for the great music!

 

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