The 2018 Fastnet Maritime and Folk Festival takes place in Ballydehob from June 15th to 18th this year with a huge range of performers already confirmed to take part. Among those appearing this year will be Tom Lewis, Matt Cranitch and Jackie Daly, Richard Grainger, Andy Irvine, Jim Mageean, Pat Sheridan, Dick Miles, Martin Carthy, […]
With only 6 weeks to go, Sea Sessions have announced their day to day line up along with 2 brand new stages. Headliner Dizzee Rascal performs Friday 22 June followed by Walking On Cars on Saturday 23 June and Rudimental on Sunday 24 June 2018. Hannah Wants and Dusky will headline the new Astoria Dance Stage and Irish album chart toppers Delorentos and The Blizzards will headline the new Monroe's stage. Sea Sessions, who return to the unique […]
The 2018 Midlands Busking Festival is taking place in Edgeworthstown on Saturday, 30th June 2018. The first Busking Competition was organised as part of the Co. Fleadh in 2014 by the late Sean Callaghan, R.I.P., and it has grown from strength to strength over the past 4 years into a very successful festival of music, […]
Music Minds 2019 is an IMRO sponsored one day multi-genre music festival made up of workshops, debates, films and live performances for those interested in the advancing music industry, its lineage and its rapidly changing vista through technology. Perhaps, most exciting of all is that we are taking this celebration of all things contemporary Irish […]
Dublin’s largest festival of Traditional and Folk music is back next January. What better way to beat off the January blues than a five-day festival in Ireland celebrating the wholesome and eclectic sounds of traditional Irish music, Celtic rock, folk and world music. TradFest also offers concert goers unique opportunities to experience live music in […]
The annual celebration of songs and the people who write them has come around again and Belfast City will come alive to the sound of great new songs, first week in March. It’s the fifteenth year of the Panarts Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival and Convention when Northern Irish songwriters perform in the festival with award […]
Young musicians from all over Ireland will gather at the RDS in Dublin in April to play in Ireland’s premier music competition. Starting Monday April 1, a new generation of musicians comprising 5000 competitors aged from 7 years old and up, will perform in front of a panel of international adjudicators in two weeks of […]
Dublin City University will open its doors to fans of culture and the arts on April 3rd and 4th, as the ANAM festival celebrates its second year. Billed as a “Celebration of Arts, Ideas and Creativity in North Dublin” the programme has been curated and produced by South Wind Blows (creators of the popular Other […]
The Ark is delighted to officially unveil details of a first of its kind festival for Ireland, BIG BANG Dublin! This thrilling new music festival for young music lovers of all kinds will see The Ark building in Temple Bar transform into an adventurous musical labyrinth of delights for the ears as well as a […]
MUSIC CURRENT is back bigger and better for 2019. Returning to Smock Alley Theatre this April, Dublin’s annual contemporary music festival expands its run dates and events this year, to showcase more of the best of new Irish and international contemporary electronic music, to Irish audiences. Hosting a four-day festival of concerts, panel discussions, composer […]
