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Wed 06 Jun 2009Artane Band set to take to the stage at Oxegen
THE ARTANE Band is to open the Oxegen music festival next month. Promoters MCD agreed to give the band the prestigious opening slot, just weeks after the Ryan commission report detailed abuse in the Artane industrial school.
The Artane Boys Band was once the public face of the notorious Christian Brothers’ school which closed down in 1969. The name was changed in 2004 to the Artane Band when girls were allowed to join. It is now a community-based band.
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