Music of Ireland
The objective of the festival was to assemble the remaining traditional harp players to compete for prizes, and preserve/notate the dying Irish harp tradition and its pieces. It was attended by ten Irish harpers and one Welsh harper, and many tunes were played, all of which were recorded by Edward Bunting. Bunting later published 66 of these tunes in the first volume of his collection ‘A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland’.