Each year as part of the Ed Reavy Festival, we run the prestigious Ed Reavy International Fiddler of the Year Competition. The competition commenced in 2016 and has been held each year on the Saturday afternoon of the festival weekend, except during 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid 19 pandemic. In 2022, we only ran the U-18 Competition which was won by the wonderfully talented Neil Kennedy from Donegal.
The 2023 competition will have both a Junior (U-18) and Senior (O-18) Competition and will take place in the Town Hall Theatre, Town Hall Street, Cavan, commencing at 11am with the U-18 and continuing at 2pm with the Senior competition.
2023 Entry will be via EventBrite
Click for U-18 Eventbrite Registration: CLICK HERE
Click for O-18 Eventbrite Registration: CLICK HERE O-18
Please also download the attached listing of Ed Reavy Tunes as there is a requirement to play 1 Reavy tune of your choice in both the Junior and Senior competition:
ed-reavy-tune-listing
Trophies & Medals for the Competition:
2019 Trophies
Ed Reavy-Senior Winner Perpetual-trophy – “In Memory of Martina” presented by Dermot Walsh in memory of his wife Martina
In Memory of Jim-Mulvaney Perpetual Trophy Junior Ed Reavy Fiddler Competition – presented by Maeve Sheridan in honour of her uncle
Images of previous winners of this prestigious competition:
2022:
Neil Kennedy, Donegal winner of 2022 U-18 Ed Reavy International Fiddler of the Year
2019:
Jamesie Wray, Donegal. 2019 Junior Ed Reavy Fiddler
Junior Winners 2019:
1st Jamesie Wray, 2nd Ellen O’Gorman Waterford, 3rd Órla Corrigan Monaghan
Sinead McKenna – Winner 2019-with Liam Wynne of Eirgrid and adjudicator John Daly
2019 Senior Winners:
1st Sinead McKenna Monaghan, 2nd Andrew Caden Maryland USA (right of picture) and 3rd Naoise Kettle Laoise (left of picture)
2018:
Jason McGuinness, Sligo – 2018 Senior Ed Reavy Fiddler of the year
Sarah O’Gorman – 2017 Senior Ed Reavy International Fiddler of the Year
Winner U-16 Ed Reavy International Fiddler of 2017
Méabh Smyth – The Inaugural Winner of The Senior Ed Reavy International Fiddle Player Competition in 2016
