Southern Welfare's 'own brand' wine

Thanks to Ray O'Brien of Southern Welfare for this intoxicating news:

Southern Welfare will be kicking off the 1st Mohill Bluegrass Festival this Friday night in Clarke's Hotel at 9.30 p.m. It's set to be a cracking weekend with some great bands performing over the three days (12-14 Aug.).

Here we are pictured with Sean McManus and P.J. Coleman [seated left and front respectively] who have commissioned two bottles of special limited-edition 'Southern Welfare Bluegrass Wine' which will be presented to festival organisers Tommy and Joyce on the night for their raffle. Each bottle of wine comes with a copy of Southern Welfare's debut CD The old home place.

As well as kicking off the festival on Friday evening, you can catch us on Saturday evening mass singing some gospel in the Catholic church and also at the Sunday morning service in the Church of Ireland church with more gospel music.

We would like to wish all the best to Tommy and Joyce for the weekend, and hopefully this will be the first of many festivals in Mohill. We hope that you can all make it along the weekend and show some support for this new festival.