4 Wheel Drive to head the bill at Athy 2012 festival

Multi-award-winning European band 4 Wheel Drive, a favourite with bluegrass audiences in Ireland for a decade, will top the bill at the 22nd Athy Bluegrass Festival.

The Athy festival, founded in 1991, is the longest-running annual bluegrass event in this island. Tony O'Brien, director of the festival since 1998, first booked 4 Wheel Drive in 2001, the first of many appearances the band has made in Ireland. Tony announces that the coming Athy festival will be held on the weekend 13-15 July 2012, located in the GAA Club, Dublin Road, Athy, the venue for several earlier festivals. Full supporting lineup will be announced soon.

For Athy info, contact Tony O’Brien, 21 Kilkenny Road, Ballylinan, Athy, Co. Kildare; +353 (0)59 8625266; e-mail.