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The Belfast Music Tour

Date : 23/11/2009
Take a coach tour through Belfast's musical history. Click Play Audio to listen to a podcast from the Belfast Music Tour
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The Belfast Music Tour is a bus journey through the heart of a great rock and roll city. From Them and Van Morrison to Snow Patrol, by way of awesome guitar players, punk rock and Hollywood soundtracks. Increasingly, this is an art form that is defining the new mood of Belfast, a place enlivened by potential and bold gestures.
 
Tours take place on the first Sunday of the month beginning with a tour of the newly refurbished iconic Ulster Hall, which from its earliest years has played host to famous figures of the age and is now home of the Ulster Orchestra. The bus departs at 2.30pm. Along the route, we will hear about the founding members of Thin Lizzy and the legend of Pearly Spencer. 
 
You'll see the landscape that inspired classic Van Morrison songs and witness the venues that have birthed historic visits from Led Zeppelin, The Clash and U2. It's a story like no other and Belfast has delivered music as various as Ruby Murray, Ash, Gary Moore, and Stiff Little Fingers, plus traditional airs and electronic adventures.
 
It's a city of festivals, a place where many genres of music thrive, and this is your best introduction. The tour finishes at the Oh Yeah centre where you will have a chance to check out the Belfast Music Exhibition. We invite you to roll with it.
 
Times: Tour of Ulster Hall, Bedford Street, at 2pm, includes live performance. Bus departs outside Ulster Hall at 2.30pm. Ends Oh Yeah Music Centre, Gordon Street at 4.30pm with a tour of the Belfast Music Exhibition.
 
Dates: The first Sunday of the month.
 
Tickets: £8 available from the Belfast Welcome Centre on 9024 6609 or www.gotobelfast.com.

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