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theatre · Sunday 30 August 2026 · 7:00pm 
Shantalliv Tap Festival Performance
At Siamsa Tíre · Town Park, Tralee, Co. Kerry
At Siamsa Tíre · Town Park, Tralee, Co. Kerry
Siamsa Tíre hosts a Shantalliv tap festival performance on Sunday, 30 August 2026 at 7:00pm, bringing tap dance to the National Folk Theatre’s main stage in Tralee for an evening booking. It falls in the same stretch of the venue’s autumn dance and theatre calendar as Siamsa Tíre’s own Grease The Musical run, and it is the kind of single-evening booking that widens what the venue offers beyond its usual mix of drama, comedy and traditional performance.
Tap is a percussive dance form built around the rhythm dancers create with metal-soled shoes on a hard floor, closer to a live music performance than a conventional dance recital, and a festival-style booking like this one typically brings together dancers of different levels and backgrounds under one show rather than a single company’s set piece. Siamsa Tíre’s main auditorium is built for exactly this kind of amplified, rhythm-driven performance, with a raked seating layout that keeps sightlines clear to the stage floor where the footwork happens. Full casting and running order details are best confirmed directly with Siamsa Tíre closer to the date, since a festival-style bill like this can change between the listing going up and the night itself.
Siamsa Tíre is in Tralee’s Town Park, close to the town’s bus and rail station, the terminus of the line from Cork and Mallow. Kerry Airport at Farranfore is around 16km away, with central car parks nearby.
Tralee’s Siamsa Tíre is Kerry’s busiest theatre venue, so a Sunday evening dance booking here fits easily alongside a weekend in the town. There is more to see in Tralee and across Co. Kerry.
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