ON Sunday and Monday, May 6 and 7, traditional and folk music, song and dance will find a natural home at the Ulster American Folk Park as the award-winning museum hosts its third annual Folk in the Park music festival. For the first time in the event's history, the festival will include a major new Sunday evening concert, with performances from Dordán, Heeliegoleerie and others, set against the unique backdrop of the ship and dockside gallery.

Each May Bank Holiday weekend, Folk in the Park provides a unique line–up of performers from the world of traditional and folk entertainment. The 2007 festival will be no exception with Buille, Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola, The Martin Donohoe Family, Seamus Fay and Friends, Deirdre Bonner, Liz Weir, Tom Sweeney, Kinfolk and Mandragora all gracing one of the seven afternoon stages during the festival's two-day progarmme.

The Folk in the Park festival was designed to celebrate the role music played in helping emigrants from these shores maintain and express their identity abroad. In particular it demonstrates the huge contribution emigrants from the 'Old World' have made to the evolution of American folk music while also offering an ideal setting in which to appreciate it all.

Tickets for the Sunday evening concert are available from the ticket hotline on 028 8225 6330 and are priced at £10. Normal admission rates will apply for the afternoon sessions which take place between 1pm and 6pm each day. For further details on the festival log on to www.folkpark.com or telephone 028 8224 3292.