End of the 34th Kilkenny arts festival. Overall my opinion of the festival is positive, but there is a lot of problems that i have noticed. This year the average price for any ticket was 20 Euro, given that when people stay here be it hotel,B&B or any other form of accommodation, It can work out very expensive. I understand that for it to be an on going project the festival has to at least make some money.But its seems that over the last few years it have become more and more commercial.
I have come to expect a few more this from an arts festival. The one thing I did notice was the fact that there were not many free gigs or street festivals going on, which means that after going to a gig there was not much going on. Pubs were doing the same thing, I really feel that if this is a preview of things to come.”Kilkenny Arts Festival” will surly die.
To make it a good festival there has to be a balance of free V paid, the more there is to do the better the experience. I know that the weather wasn’t as good as it could have been. I just hope lessons are learned from this years festival and that things will change for the better.