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GIG of the weekend

Millstreet Music Fair, Cork, Sunday

The line-up for this one-day event in the spacious Green Glens Arena has something for nearly everybody, from full-blooded celtic soul brothers Van Morrison and Shane MacGowan to the glittery contemporary pop of The Corrs and the camp shenanigans of Bono's buddy Gavin Friday.

Rabble-rousers The Saw Doctors are also in there somewhere, as are Canada's The Cowboy Junkies, country queen Emmylou Harris, squeezebox ace Sharon Shannon and the legendary John Martyn, a man known to equal Van in the getting out of the wrong side of the bed of a morning stakes.

The action will take place over three separate stages - the Greenfield, the World and the Examiner Stage, with some 30 acts performing.

Organisers say if the gig is a major success they will turn it into an annual event.

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The Millstreet Music Fair took place on Sunday, 04 August 1996. John played with band on the World Stage. Other acts there included Emmylou Harris, Cowboy Junkies, Altan, Kiki Dee and Ann di Franco. Van Morrisson was scheduled for the Greenfield Stage.