Qualla: All Together Now (festival)

All Together Now (festival): Introduction

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. For most of the year, Curraghmore Estate is the quietly preserved seat of the Marquess of Waterford, a vast Georgian demesne of formal gardens, ancient woodlands, and a stately Palladian house that has belonged to the same family for more than 700 years. Then, on the August Bank Holiday weekend, something extraordinary happens. Tens of thousands of people pour through the gates, tents bloom in the meadows, and the Prodigy or the National start tuning up beside an 18th-century landscape that John Carr of York helped design. All Together Now is what happens when you let a music festival loose on a place this old.

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All Together Now (festival): Born Boutique

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. All Together Now debuted in August 2018, conceived from the start as something different from the major Irish festivals that came before it. The format was four days and nights, the location was an aristocratic estate rather than a fairground or industrial site, and the programmi...

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All Together Now (festival): The Traffic Year

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. Then came 2019, and the queues. The 2019 edition was widely criticised for severe traffic problems, with attendees stuck in multi-hour lines both arriving and departing. Limited access routes, inadequate stewarding, and poor early communication from organisers turned what should ...

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All Together Now (festival): The Headliners and the Hideouts

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. The lineups blend mainstream and alternative without apology. Recent headliners include the Prodigy, the National, Jorja Smith, and James Vincent McMorrow, whose 2024 set drew on the kind of atmospheric Irish songwriting that suits a wooded estate at twilight. By early 2025 organ...

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All Together Now (festival): Curraghmore the Host

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. Curraghmore itself is the festival's not-so-secret weapon. The estate has been the seat of the de la Poer Beresford family for centuries, and its parklands stretch across hills above the Clodiagh River. The house, with its distinctive equestrian statue on the roof, looms in the d...

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