Location

Open House was the first festival to take place in the arts and cultural flavoured Cathedral Quarter of Belfast and is a genuine boutique festival. It started in the Autumn of 1999 and was affectionately dubbed, by a leading BBC journalist, the "two pubs and a Cathedral" festival. Over ten years Open House has grown into a "grass roots festival with international appeal". The festival offers live Irish and American music including a selection of free performances, workshops and master classes featuring artists of international stature and many local musicians. With 60 plus events Open House has a funky music programme bursting at the seams with the new wave of American Roots music, Old-Time, punky Bluegrass, Cajun & Creole, Lo-fi Punk Blues, Irish Traditional Music and Alt country.
Chilifest runs alongside Open House Festival and includes stalls selling chilli plants, fresh and dried chillies, chilli sauces, chilli jams, chilli bread, chilli ice cream and a hundred other chilli products.
Tickets for the Open House Festival can be booked on-line at www.openhousefestival.com or from the festival box office at the Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 9024 6609.