The North Wexford Traditional Singing Circle was founded in 2015 to give a platform for the community across the generations to come together and share their love of unaccompanied traditional singing and writing songs in the traditional style in both Irish and English. The group meet on the last Tuesday of every month at 8.30pm in the back room of French’s Traditional Bar inGuaire, Loch Garman. French’s has been in the same family for four generations and its doors were opened in 1890 by Jim French’s great-grandparents, Andrew and Julia French. 

The North Wexford Traditional Singing Circle hosts an annual traditional singing féile in November in the Loch Garman Arms Hotel i nGuaire, which attracts renowned singers from all over Ireland & beyond. The North Wexford Traditional Singing Circle’s website is home to Cartlann na nDaoine | The People’s Archive – which involves the collecting, recording, and presenting, through film and audio, both the living and evolving song tradition of Co. Wexford across the generations. The North Wexford Traditional Singing Circle plays a very important role in the singing and song making tradition in Co. Wexford and beyond. Everyone with an interest in traditional singing and writing songs in the traditional style will receive a very warm welcome at the gatherings, agus bíonn fáilte ar leith i gcónaí roimh amhránaithe óga agus roimh an nGaeilge.